Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 665 from 2004/2/10
The best quiet PowerMac are the PCIe variants.
The only one that has liquid cooling is the 2.5 quad.
I took a 2.0 GHz single processor PCIe system and put a 2.5 from a QUAD in it. Although it bit slower than the mighty 2.7, the PCIe systems have a faster bus and since your only using one processor, it runs cool and quiet.
2.7 is only PCIX and never made it to their newer PCIe motherboards.
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Capricornus wrote:
Hmm.. I am currently trying out MorphOs on the basic Mac Mini G4 (1.25Ghz), I like the small form factor and the quietness of the machine, but I do suspect that eventually I will struggle with it. I guess upgrading to the 1.5Ghz one would be the minimum.
My biggest issue with Power Macs is noise, the liquid cooling ones are also a big no, and they don't really look as nice as the Minis.
