" High Resolution Pictures Of The G5 Liquid Cooling System
I just made a new .Mac photo album of my 2.5Ghz G5 processor. I hope you like the Cube vs G5 (core) picture.
James. "

The last photo shows the G5 radiator core beside the core of a G4 Cube (they're about the same size).

" Supported Cards: ATI 7000, 7200, 7500, 8500, 9000, 9200, 9600, 9700, 9800 and all NVIVIA cards...
Version 0.62:

added AGP MAP sum, added Texture Pagein sum, added GPU Time sum, fixed VRAM MIN value

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later. (for) now, only works if one card is active. 2 card support will follow. "

" Dear Mike, ... I have found interesting document from IBM that is related to your Xserve G5 power usage reports. (this earlier page)
Please read an article titled "Power envelope and power management in Power Architecture processors" ( http://www-1.ibm.com/technology/power/newsletter/august2004/article7.html).
The article shows the power consumption of 970FX/2.5GHz in various power management mode. According to the article, 970FX with 1.3V Vdd has a reliability problem. So, the upper voltage is limited to 1.2V. I think it was the reason for the CPU Vcore was 1.2V in newer revision of Xserve G5.
The article also stated that IBM's 90nm process has a problem that prevents operation below 1.0V Vdd. So, I can speculate current situation of 970FX;

1) The reliability problem in high voltage (Vdd > 1.2V) operation inhibits faster (> 2.5GHz) chip,

2) We cannot expect ULV revision for PowerBook because 90nm 970FX does not work below 1.0V.

I am happy if this info is useful for your readers.
Best Regards,
Michiro Isobe "

I've added this to the previous page on Xserve G5 (970FX)

A reader with a Pioneer DVR-108 wrote he moved the drive to a Firewire800 case as his solution for better performance, saying even his Oxford 911 FW case resulted in lower than normal performance (longer burn times than expected) for 12x burns. The Oxford 911 bridge is rated for ATA/66 at least so in theory it should be more than fast enough. I've seen ATA mode hard drives in Oxford911 cases sustain more than 30MB/sec with a single drive, but haven't tried a drive like a DVR-108 in a 911 FW case in ATAPI mode. (The source drive and media can also affect burn time/rates.)

The PowerMac G5's optical bus is ATA/100 so this doesn't affect those systems.
For owners of Mirror Drive Door Towers, you could run the cable from the secondary ATA/66 bus to the DVD drive for better performance than the ATA/3 interface. IDE PCI cards for older Macs are an option also, but they appear as SCSI typically (as do the connected drives), but that may not interfere with patchburn II profile support for the DVR-108. (No native iApps burn support for the 12x and 16x DVD burner models like this, so patchburn II is usually used in 10.3.x. Hopefully a future OS X update will have native burn support for the 108.)

" UK iTunes Music store available from... date bugs.
I have noted that several albums are giving the error Your Request Cannot Be Completed... xxxx Will Be Available In-store on xxxxx with available date in the past.

Examples:
Link to Tina Dico - Far in the Top 100 Albums says not available in store until 27 July 2004, yet if you search manually for it, it is available.

Stereophonics link from opening iTunes store page shows a list of top albums, they are all not available yet giving dates in the past if you click them, eg.
Moviestar EP 5 May 2004
Just Enough Education to Perform - 17 April 2001! etc.

Think there is a bug with the store here.
I have filled a feedback bug report for the store.
Neil "

• NFS volumes on third-party servers fail to mount
• Printer troubleshooting for AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express

Combo DVD-CDR Drives:
• IDE LG 4480B (48x24x48x +16x DVD-ROM) in PowerTower Pro using IDE PCI card (OS X) (didn't comment on iTunes burn support or booting from CD)
• Exp. Bay Toshiba SD-R2512 in (Pismo) PowerBook G3 2000 (OS X 10.3)
  (using Patchburn II for Panther iApps burn support.
  Systems page, Powerbook section has articles from 2001 on expansion bay combo drive installs/swaps.)
  
  DVD-R + DVD RAM Drives:
• IDE Matshita UJ-825S in PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.3)
  (also filed under "DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW" category since it supports both DVD-R and DVD+R burning. No native iApps burn support so using Patchburn II for Panther.
  installation guide for PB G4 ti linked at the bottom of this OWC product page.)
  
  DVD+R/RW + DVD-R/RW Drives:
• Firewire (cased) Lacie (actually Pioneer DVR-107D drive) used w/Powerbook G4 (OS X 10.3) (native burn support in 10.3.3 and later.)
• Exp. Bay Matshita UJ-825-B in (Pismo) PowerBook G3 2000 (OS X 10.3)
  (using Patchburn II for Panther iApps burn support.)
• IDE Pioneer DVR-108 in (yikes) G4 no AGP (OS X)
  (no iApps burn support, said he tried patchburn 1.1 but wasn't successful.
  Illustrated CD drive install guide here covers B&W G3 and G4 towers up to the Digital Audio Model)

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  (Full reviews of G4 and G3 upgrades compared to stock CPUs, including real world apps/game tests, install info, etc. - see the CPU upgrades page. OC/CPU module articles are on the Systems page.)

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