Looks like a water cooled heat pipe? Has to be a heat pipe on the two CPU's as there is only one pipe coming off it. From there it looks as if it goes into an exchanger and then attached to another water cooled exchanger. Or maybe not?
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Well maybe not. It looks like the CPU's are water cooled and the heat pipes are for something else?
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Maybe it's a crazy idea, but isn't the plate where the boards sits just a giant heatsink?
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It seems to, don't know for sure.
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Yeah, the big plate the CPU modules are bolted to is the water block.
The heatpipes look to be for cooling the voltage regulators. |
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Yep that's a lot like the original G5 CPU, it had 4 heat pipes on the CPU and 2 on the Power Supply. The Vcore supply is on the CPU board. Which makes sense since that supply has to deliver upwards of 20Amps. It's a 4 Phase switching supply using integrated FET modules for each phase. TONS of ceramic decoupling/supply filter caps. Here's a link to an engineering drawing of the watercooling module http://www.hardmac.com/news/photonew...terblockg5.jpg And a Photo of one in assembly. http://www.hardmac.com/news/photonews18/sideview.jpg http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.p...1&page=2&pp=30 |
More pics at Techseekers. I guess apple doesn't fear aluminum and water.
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it is WCing - I'll say more after Apple does |
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Got to hand it to them, it is a nice setup... |
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Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 are or were made in 64 bit versions (remember NT was orginally designed to run on 64 bit Intel RISC chips and later ported to x86). Presently though only XP and 2003 are still available in 64 bit mode. |
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Yup, similar hacks as 32 bit windows has been doing for almost a decade to overcome the 4GB limit on 32 bit systems. Fortunately we've got a good 2.5 years before 32bit addressing becomes a real problem on the desktop, so MS, Intel, and Apple have time to get their problems sorted out.
Also, about 64 bit PS: PS can't even address >2GB of ram (its horrid memory management is a relec of the early 90s). Don't expect a 64 bit version thats actually 64 bit unless they get around to rewriting the app from scratch. |
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html Is this a 'true' 64-bit OS? dunno, I'll leave that debate to the ComputerSci majors, but 'a 64-bit version of libSystem' seems to imply it's integrated into userland apps if needed by them. And the monitors... 2560x1600 LCD anyone... too bad that Geforce 6800ultra isnt watercooled as well, I bet that fan makes quite the racket. http://www.apple.com/displays/digital.html Nothing a couple feet of tubing and a waterblock wouldnt solve, since you've already got a pretty nice radiator and pump module in the CPU bay :) |
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