So now i have a pair of 2.5 GHz cpu's running on air cooling and i won't have to worry about leaks from a bad watercooling unit. Since the LCS from the AGP machines have the same standoff layout as 2 traditional G5 heatsinks, i decided to swap them. Found out that one fan that sits in front of the hard drives was whining, so i swapped that one out from the 2.5 machine into the DP 2. I then swapped out the PSU fron the DP 2.5 into the other and now went from a dieing ACBel PSU to a Liteon PSU, both 600 W and the Liteon is going strong. I found out the logicboard in the DP 2 is the same as the one in the DP 2.5 so i stuck with the case and logicboard of the DP 2 G5. Now comes the fun part, swapping parts from one to another.

Put the cpu's in that machine and found out why it had power problems. So $125 later, i had a parts machine.Īfter getting it, i tried the 2.5 GHz cpu's in the first G5, but found out that there were a few logicboard problems. I hum and hawed about this for a few months, then on the local kijiji, i found someone that was selling a DP 2 GHz G5 with power issues. a new G5, or over $100 to redo the watercooling to modern specs. So now i had a G5 that wouldn't run even if i wanted to. After clearing out every bit of coolant aka Glycol, i found out that the radiator itself had a large clog, so even if i did try to run the G5, it would overheat. When i got the 2.5 model, it had signs of 'white rice' So i had to completely rip apart the Delphi LCS unit. The steps that i took with mine are several and also consisted of 2 Powermac G5's.

I am starting this thread because i want to inform people that you can convert the DP 2.5 GHz AGP G5 from running liquid cooling to Air cooling.

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