MorphOS : PowerMac G5 Port Update

[kd7ota]

Already bought a 2.7ghz Liquid Cooled G5 mac, and swapped the LCS system for some passive heatsinks. Conversion worked great.  Just pick up some passive heatsinks from a 2.0ghz G5 mac.

[kd7ota]

Putting an air-cooler into an unit designed for LCS might work ..... for a moment .... (aka really stupid idea),

Well guess my G5 is gonna get steam rolled since I replaced the failing LCS with some passive heatsinks.  So far its been a few weeks and working great... Wonder how long its gonna take before she gives up.

[kd7ota]

I will have to wait till my 2nd 2.7ghz G5 comes in, do some testing/temps on the LCS, then drop in some 2.0CPUs to see if the logic board will take them.

Thing was that the LCS and the Passives were reading around the same temps, but i think this was because the board thinks the LCS is still used, though the Passives are in it now... Readouts  on temps were slightly lower on the Passive, but maybe because the LCS in it was failing? Either way, stay tuned as I blow up this G5 for experiment!

[kd7ota]

Great news about the MOS progress for the G5 Poweracs.

About the LCS issues...

I own a G5 Quad. The LCS on it is still running fine, with no leaks, or issues.

AFAIK, the latter produced LCS G5 Powermacs have an improved LCS system over the kind that was originally released and is/was prone to more frequent leaking and issues.

I did however see in general even the G5 Quad (which falls under the latter produced G5 systems category) mentioned over the internet as causing issues and leaks, so I guess no LCS G5 Powermac is completely immune to risks of LCS issues.

Does anyone have any feedback about their LCS system on a G5 Quad?

I will rebuild one of the LCS blocks on my spare G5 2.7 dual tower. I think the Delphi ones were known to leak.  After overlooking the tutorial it seems its feasible to easily rebuild them. Gonna be a hard ass and use 90% distilled water and 10% automotive antifreeze. Replacing all tubing and installing a separate tube to fill up the radiator with.Gonna flush/clean the whole system and rip apart the pump and clean it the best I can with a toothbrush/rubbing alcohol.