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What Makes Apple's Power Mac G5 Processor So Hot
An anonymous reader writes "58 million transistors can drive a lot of power. Apparently, Apple appreciated the choices IBM processor architects made when designing the 970 family. This article provides the 64-bit architecture big picture for the 970 family (A.K.A. the Power Mac G5) and the critical issues in IBM's 64-bit POWER designs, covering 32-bit compatibility, power management, and processor bus design."
If it's so hot, maybe it's not cool enough.
Insufficient cooling?
-GillBates0, 2004.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
The fan belt on its search engine doesn't drive the radiation air emission unit fast enough! SHE NEEDS MORE POWER!
They should make the G5 powerbooks have a teflon underside.
"Turn it over, and you can cook dinner".
Holy fuck dude... your room temp is 109.4 degrees Fahrenheit (thank you google)?
Open a window or buy an air conditioner or something!
I've just signed legislation that'll outlaw Russia forever. We'll begin bombing in five minutes.
nah, the proper solution is to develop the convenience store liquid nitrogen market.
Obligatory PC Weenies link that fits the topic at hand.
The PC Weenies: 11 Years of Online Tech 'Too
After reading the privous post, I somehow got to think about viagra spam... "Increase The Size Of Your Pointer Now! Buy A 64-Bit PowerMac G5 And Get That Extra Size Today!"
Holy Crap! You must be really roductive !
Cheers!
-- CD
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
In the past few years where PC' Fanatics have gone to great measures in extreme clocking and tweaking to push the speeds to the limits, Mod'rs have ran into and pretty much conquered heat issues along with other roadblocks. Technology that has been adapted by PC and PC-part manufacturers, I'm no Mac expert but even thumbing through the latest magazines I have yet to stumble upon a "Mac" mod or a how-to on making them extreme, is this due to proprietary or licensing issues? Or can a Mac be reverse engineered the way PC's can be? Granted Macs are not worthless and have good reviews from most of its users that know the systems. Still I find it limiting and where PC has prevailed. Heat on a slower clock speed processor should not be an issue. How many fans does a G3, G4, G5 have these days (1 case)? Laptops would be even worse as for PC portables are highly concerned about heat themselves.
"Make it idiot proof, Someone will make a better idiot" -- Tweak
Coob
The C++ standard template library uses MAGIC PIXIE DUST and MOONBEAMS for the data structures. Java Containers, on the other hand, are held together with PURE THOUGHTS and KITTEN WHISKERS. That's how they avoid using pointers... ;-)
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
Simple. Since we've got a computer capable of simulating the entire universe, we'll just use it to simulate a universe which contains a computer which is capable of simulating more than one universe.
the single-tasking 80 column display days
_80_ columns?! Why, you young punks had it good! When I was a boy, we only had 40 columns, and we felt grateful, as our fathers had no video display at all. Grandfathers? They used their fingers or an abacus.
You've come a long way, baby.
As an aside, did you know that Java has garbage-collection as a side-effect of using pure thoughts to hold its data structures together? And the kitten whiskers are what allows the JIT compiler to work so well.
On the other side of the fence, C++'s usage of magic pixie dust and moonbeams is what gives it its flexibility -- and by that I mean the ability to program in the procedural style or object-oriented style or template style, etc. The downside is that magic and moonbeams aren't really...reliable. So you end up shooting yourself in the foot, and every compiler is different.
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
That would go a long way to explain the "disappearing sock" phemonenon...