You can always tell a tech guy that actually gets stuff fixed. Cluttered worn out work table. Tools scattered everywhere, screws, parts from previous projects, cable and wires cris-crossing, geek related knick-knacks, several monitors sitting askew, crap on the floor, hot-cold room, etc. LOVE it!!!
To get that nicotine tar off in the UK we use sugar soap which is mainly used to wash interior paint down. Quick search shows sugar soap to be trisodium phosphate in US
A superb video. I feel like I could almost do my g5, for new it keeps going. My experience with ssd in the g5 dual 2GHz and g5 quad is the the speed improvement it not what you would expect, perhaps a large OS overhead somewhere. Plus they seem very fussy if they work at all. I did use one for a while but seem to recall it being a pain to install to, I may have even had to write the raw image on another machine or installed in one. Right now I have two identical rust drives in a soft raid stripe setup. Runs faster than I recall the ssd sharing the work over two sata ports rather than one.
That would be a nice Morphos box.. the single processor pcie system is better though especially if you put a 2.5GHz processors in. You could have moved the 2.3 heatsinks to cool the 2.7s but the rebuild you did is good to go.
Good video Chris. I always wanted one of these too, but I was always afraid of the leaking, etc. But, they don't look too difficult to service, assuming any leaking hasn't caused damage. Thanks for the video!
i once lost such a screw. it looked like it went straight into the gpu. only after completely dismantling it did we find it chilling in a corner on the case floor...
great great video! thank you very much! I'm looking for a video showing how to refill the liquid cooling system on these G5 for a long time. I have a quad core 2.5, late 2005, and I'm delaying this maintenance in the LCS. But now, after seen your video I'm going in!
Thanks Chris! I've had a Delphi cooler from a dual 2.5 G5 sitting for months now - your video finally gave me the courage to crack it open and get started. Going for a blue coolant refill. Then I've got a Quad I can hopefully give the same treatment! I like the clear tubing aesthetic and was wondering why you switched back to the aluminum pipe from the outlet on the radiator to the CPU interface. Does that particular line have more pressure, and need the aluminum tubing, or could I replace all the aluminum tubing with clear hoses?
There is me thinking the whole "welcome to the sea" thing was because most of the time the Amigas you work on look like the bottom of the sea, never occurred to me it stood for "something else Amiga" lol.
SNA. Something NOT Amiga. This guy is tricking us in watching Macintosh repairs. I feel dirty This might be cool if you could remove the hardware from this G5 mac and somehow incorporate it into a CPU accelerator card for a 4000T.
@@stevenbrentson8 No nvidia or Intel inside, good enough for me! My eMac G4 is the best retro machine ever, supporting games from Space Invaders to Quake III (including DOS and Amiga) on a CRT for 30€....
@@stevenbrentson8Sadly, this G5 can emulate a faster Amiga than real 68K hardware. If someone could hack UAE and Amiga PPC drivers to use the second G5 natively, it would put the old Amiga PPC boards to shame. And it would be cheaper than a real A4000 too. 😂
18:27 expected bagpipe sounds..... So is that water loop using two different kinds of metal? as what I know (which admittedly is not enough to be useful, but enough to be dangerous) is that mixed metals can cause corrosion.
Two in storage? You don't know how envious I am. 😂 These things don't pop up in the UK very often, and when they do, they tend to be ridiculously expensive, and/or dead or dying. I have been lucky with other models though. Got a nice dual core 2.3GHz for a ridiculously low price.
I'm hoping to redo mine in a few weeks. I have a 2.5 GHz and I believe the O-rings on mine are smaller than yours. Would you be able to add the list of the products you used: new hose, coolant, etc. in your parts list? I'd be glad to click on your sponsored link. Best to you in 2025!
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration btw I ended getting a 2.7GHz LCS unit like yours recently! I picked it up locally so thankfully the case wasn't bent. That said, mine had more corrosion than yours, so I'll need to do a rebuild. I was a little confused about the O-rings since it sounds like you bought the 027 size but you said they were too big?!
Yeah too large maybe a few Smaller would fit however you may be able to recondition your original rings. I boiled mine for a few minutes and they came back around. Also that water grease was critical to making them not leak once you drain the xylene additive to the water from the factory it won’t be corrosive anymore. Use standard propylene glycol based liquid and you’ll never have any problems
Plus, when not in use grab the fire axe and hack off a slab from the basement stored Parmesan cheese wheel and grate away like there's no tomorrow. Also, when bulking up in your spare time do some dead lift reps in between Amiga salvages. Okay enough joking. Well after commodore took a huge dump we spent several years in the windows wonderland and as soon as OSX appeared on Apple's future radar we pretty much switched to OSX and haven't looked back except when we were both working using Win emulations or telnet when our jobs forced us to work remote. But somehow lately a linux mint laptop has magically appeared on my desk. My Amiga memories currently live on one of the kids old win10 floor models via the WinUAE emulator. Sigh.
You can always tell a tech guy that actually gets stuff fixed.
Cluttered worn out work table. Tools scattered everywhere, screws, parts from previous projects, cable and wires cris-crossing, geek related knick-knacks, several monitors sitting askew, crap on the floor, hot-cold room, etc. LOVE it!!!
To get that nicotine tar off in the UK we use sugar soap which is mainly used to wash interior paint down. Quick search shows sugar soap to be trisodium phosphate in US
Thank you for documenting this... Because we are going to do the same thing!
LOL that drop slow mo!
Great job with the tear down and re assembly! And Im sorry about your Mac being drop kicked by Fed Ex.
Don't worry about the small bubble. It will dissolve into the liquid over time. A few days or a week it will be gone. Good job.
A superb video. I feel like I could almost do my g5, for new it keeps going. My experience with ssd in the g5 dual 2GHz and g5 quad is the the speed improvement it not what you would expect, perhaps a large OS overhead somewhere. Plus they seem very fussy if they work at all. I did use one for a while but seem to recall it being a pain to install to, I may have even had to write the raw image on another machine or installed in one. Right now I have two identical rust drives in a soft raid stripe setup. Runs faster than I recall the ssd sharing the work over two sata ports rather than one.
That would be a nice Morphos box.. the single processor pcie system is better though especially if you put a 2.5GHz processors in. You could have moved the 2.3 heatsinks to cool the 2.7s but the rebuild you did is good to go.
I have the others for morph
Use a nut driver on hose clamps - they don't slip off! 👍
Just found your channel - Excellent Content! - Another Sub For you Sir!
Good video Chris. I always wanted one of these too, but I was always afraid of the leaking, etc. But, they don't look too difficult to service, assuming any leaking hasn't caused damage. Thanks for the video!
Excellent rescue!
Good Work, Brother.
Good job, have also a 2.5, the video card is broken will have to check that some day !
Protip, (pun intended :P) bluetack to hold that screw on the screwdriver :)
Very nice work!
there are small screws that you can remove from upper case anc down on the case so you can fix the lid problem easyer .,.
i once lost such a screw. it looked like it went straight into the gpu. only after completely dismantling it did we find it chilling in a corner on the case floor...
Interesting Vid Dr Chris 👍🏻 Cheers 🍻
"Harder than Peter North" lol, subscribed
30:10 As a former mechanic I can relate!
love this stuff! - i have a 5.1 dual intel in the same chassis - built like a tank!
Nice video to, i have also a 2.5 Dual G5 Mac, i have to take a clooser look i think.
great great video! thank you very much! I'm looking for a video showing how to refill the liquid cooling system on these G5 for a long time. I have a quad core 2.5, late 2005, and I'm delaying this maintenance in the LCS. But now, after seen your video I'm going in!
@@mdvfelisberto that water grease was the saver of the o rings as the ones I’m that article were wrong.
I gotta do the foot fix to mine after it got the drop kick delivery method.
Thanks Chris! I've had a Delphi cooler from a dual 2.5 G5 sitting for months now - your video finally gave me the courage to crack it open and get started. Going for a blue coolant refill. Then I've got a Quad I can hopefully give the same treatment! I like the clear tubing aesthetic and was wondering why you switched back to the aluminum pipe from the outlet on the radiator to the CPU interface. Does that particular line have more pressure, and need the aluminum tubing, or could I replace all the aluminum tubing with clear hoses?
Nope clear line is fine but you will need new clamps. The one pipe had a weird bend so i kept it the metal pipe
Very cool!!! 😀
There is me thinking the whole "welcome to the sea" thing was because most of the time the Amigas you work on look like the bottom of the sea, never occurred to me it stood for "something else Amiga" lol.
SNA. Something NOT Amiga. This guy is tricking us in watching Macintosh repairs. I feel dirty This might be cool if you could remove the hardware from this G5 mac and somehow incorporate it into a CPU accelerator card for a 4000T.
@@stevenbrentson8 slaps @stevenbrentson8 with a huge trout
@@stevenbrentson8 No nvidia or Intel inside, good enough for me! My eMac G4 is the best retro machine ever, supporting games from Space Invaders to Quake III (including DOS and Amiga) on a CRT for 30€....
@@stevenbrentson8Sadly, this G5 can emulate a faster Amiga than real 68K hardware. If someone could hack UAE and Amiga PPC drivers to use the second G5 natively, it would put the old Amiga PPC boards to shame. And it would be cheaper than a real A4000 too. 😂
those o rings could be for the other pump design that the 2.5 has, which is a dual pump setup (the ones you bought that ended up being wrong)
and for the record, the cpus are 100% identical, it doesnt matter which slot they go in.
18:27 expected bagpipe sounds..... So is that water loop using two different kinds of metal? as what I know (which admittedly is not enough to be useful, but enough to be dangerous) is that mixed metals can cause corrosion.
Damn… it sucks when shipping does that kinda crap…
Lemme know if you need another one… I have two in storage…
Two in storage? You don't know how envious I am. 😂 These things don't pop up in the UK very often, and when they do, they tend to be ridiculously expensive, and/or dead or dying. I have been lucky with other models though. Got a nice dual core 2.3GHz for a ridiculously low price.
@@another3997 yeah, I used to resell them, till people stopped buying them.
I have hundreds of old macs… pretty much every model…
SMD recap recommended?
Apple used organic polymers. They never leak. Or at least not for a long ass time.
I'm hoping to redo mine in a few weeks. I have a 2.5 GHz and I believe the O-rings on mine are smaller than yours. Would you be able to add the list of the products you used: new hose, coolant, etc. in your parts list? I'd be glad to click on your sponsored link. Best to you in 2025!
I just do regular links. I don’t know how to do that affiliate stuff but I’ll get a list together when I get home from work or just shoot me an email.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration btw I ended getting a 2.7GHz LCS unit like yours recently! I picked it up locally so thankfully the case wasn't bent. That said, mine had more corrosion than yours, so I'll need to do a rebuild. I was a little confused about the O-rings since it sounds like you bought the 027 size but you said they were too big?!
Yeah too large maybe a few
Smaller would fit however you may be able to recondition your original rings. I boiled mine for a few minutes and they came back around. Also that water grease was critical to making them not leak once you drain the xylene additive to the water from the factory it won’t be corrosive anymore. Use standard propylene glycol based liquid and you’ll never have any problems
Nice machine. It's a shame it got damaged in transit, but I hope you get some compensation for their stupidity. I'm guessing your after a G5 Quad too?
Yup
I missed working on the older Apple computers.
And what if you put modern cooling systems?The decorative cover will still cover it.
tsk
If there is a PCI-E bus, then you can put an M. 2 adapter and a drive. Now a lot of different adapters are being made.
This is pciX not pci e
Plus, when not in use grab the fire axe and hack off a slab from the basement stored Parmesan cheese wheel and grate away like there's no tomorrow.
Also, when bulking up in your spare time do some dead lift reps in between Amiga salvages.
Okay enough joking. Well after commodore took a huge dump we spent several years in the windows wonderland and as soon as OSX appeared on Apple's future radar we pretty much switched to OSX and haven't looked back except when we were both working using Win emulations or telnet when our jobs forced us to work remote. But somehow lately a linux mint laptop has magically appeared on my desk. My Amiga memories currently live on one of the kids old win10 floor models via the WinUAE emulator. Sigh.
boot up a uefi capable intel mac or pc with pimiga4