Air Cooled or Liquid Cooled.

Your computer is air cooled.

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Hi Rich, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

The 2.3 is a confusing one, most it seems were air cooled but I've read about a few that had LCS!!?

Should be evident if you open the case I think.

The only g5's that were liquid cooled were the 2.5 and 2.7 Ghz. It's a nightmare to replace, unless you are a car mechanic who does radiator flushes.

Explain these please...

Sheri N

Lightning does strike twice. We had another G5 (dual 2.3 GHz, May 2005) acting strange yesterday (Quicktime movie freezing up, cannot shut down/restart via Apple Remote Desktop), so we went to the comm closet to check it (another pampered G5 in a cooled, dust free environment).

This one's leak is a bit different " slow enough that the coolant has been crystallizing and drying very quickly, over a longer period of time.

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/powermacg5/topic4243.html

There's been debate on some other models like the "Late 2005" dual-core 2.3GHz - one owner reported a leak here (in Nov. 2007 mail) but three other owners have said their dual-core 2.3 were air-cooled, despite having the 'liquid warning' stencil on the PS. (From the photos one 2.3GHz owner sent, it clearly appeared to be air-cooled, not LCS.)

"bought my G5 Dual core 2.3ghz with 4GB of RAM powermac Nov 2005 (He originally said Nov. 2004, but the dual-core 2.3GHz was a "late 2005" series) and on the 18th of august 2007 it shut off and stated ticking... I tried to restart which didn't work. So I called mac support. I opened the side panel and noticed liquid on the rear bottom "foot"

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/G5coolantleaks.html

Hello,

Yes, you should have an Air Cooled system. However it is always a good idea to click on >About This Mac>More Info>Hardware, or simply remove the side panel and on the sticker on the bottom of the opening retrieve the Serial Number, and punch it in, in Apple's Support Site and get the specifications. But the quickest and easiest way (especially since your logic board seems to be dead), is to just pop the side panel off and simply look for hoses. An Air Cooled System will have a rather large, vented metal block (heatsink) under the G5 logo plate. A liquid cooled system will have a pump and hose setup. I hope this helps.

Regards