It sounds like a jet engine revving up when both of those fans get going,
but most of the time it's whisper-quiet. Even with POV-Ray rendering a scene
it's pretty darn quiet, since POV-Ray is only stressing one of the CPU's.
The G5 is a remarkable piece of engineering.

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3fbba224$1@news.povray.org> , "Scott Gammans"
> <dee### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>
> > Dual processor 2.0 GHz G5 with 2.5 GB RAM. Sweeeeeet machine.
>
> BTW, how is the noise level under load?  Is it really much better than
that
> of the last G4s?
>
>     Thorsten
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