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by dylan604 968 days ago
Didn't Apple start shipping water cooled overclocked CPUs just to get some sort of a speed bump when the CPUs topped out? Was that the G5 you mentioned?
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Yes, Apple shipped the top tier PowerMac G5s with water cooling, including the top-of-the-line quad-core (2 x dual core) models. I don't think they were overclocked, they just ran extremely hot at stock speeds.
These topped out at 2.7 GHz. The water coolers ended up developing leaks, for which Apple was sued.