Maybe this heatsink should be called "aBsink", if my bad English doesn't make it sound bad

Yes! Brilliant! And marketable!

Can anyone reccomend a KVM switcher? is/ was there a good one to look out for so that I dont have to use a pc one with lots of turnarounds...

I used to have the 8-port version of the following Dual-Link DVI-I KVM:

https://www.amazon.com/ATEN-4-PORT-Dual-link-Dvi-CS1784A/dp/B004LB5AQ8/

Used it with my MDD, Mac mini G4, G5 Quad Core, G5 2.7GHz DP, Raspberry Pi, PSVita TV, generic x86 PC, work-provided x86 laptop for remote working. It worked perfectly for me and served me incredibly well for the 2 whole years I stayed in Germany. I could switch between all 8 devices using the same monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers without having to get up from my chair. Because it is also a USB hub, I had things like PS1 and GameCube controllers with USB controller adapters all connected to it, and shared across all these devices, for any OS or hardware I had, as well. Also printer, scanner, 720P webcam, mic, and anything else USB, working across all the devices (unless if one of the OSes lacked drivers for a specific one anyway).

That setup was the peak of my physical possessions in the past...

Thank you for the explanation, laulandn! Do not try to pace yourself, let loose your chaotic brain on the forum. If people are not interested they will just read other threads. There are many nerds that share your interests here.

What's equally as remarkable is that you would think after all that, the G5 would have been whisper-quiet. Oops…

Yeah, not only "noisy" but some of them were liquid cooled and to add to Apple's incredible track-record of "Think different" "Design Different" and sometimes "Screw the customer over with a different design" the liquid-cooled G5s were dying left and right in music studios due to leaks... from the web...

    "I have a lab of 17 Dual 2.7Ghz G5s that are all now leaking their coolant- all at once. A significant number are dead in the water and the rest are just holding on right now. Symptoms are wide-ranged but will include fans spinning wildly, machines shutting down when they heat up, greenish liquid leaking from the case, and if you are able to look, crystalized liquid forming where the CPU meets the heatsink as well as corrosion of all the metal surrounding the CPU module. Eventually, the machines just stop working altogether necessitating a replacement of CPU, Logic Board, Power Supply, and two smaller parts. In one case the power supply started to shoot off black smoke and then died.

    "As of yet, Apple has been fairly unresponsive in fixing or replacing them and I am now working on making this more public. I am curious to know if any other people are having this problem. I know of 3 other cases outside our own lab here. The machines in our lab were the first of the dual 2.7s- they were bought right when the came out."

I can tell you as an Apple-tech in the field in 2005 thru 2007, it was mind blowing to see $3500+ music studio and graphics studio machines with blown logic boards, and for added insult, the power supply was at the bottom, so, 4 out of 5 dead G5s had blown power supplies also; I can tell you this was NOT a "one-off"... I am just one guy, and I personally inspected a few dozen that leaked !  Man it was ugly... white liquid trails running into CPU sockets, blown logic boards, and then a small trail going directly into the Power supply, I almost didn't have the heart to show the client that forked over big bucks, the absolute destruction of their workhorse from just being used like a computer should be.  Many were clean as a whistle with no dust and very little use and BAMMM, death.  As irony and Apple go hand in hand, the slower and cheaper 2.3 was still air cooled and there are probably a lot of them still alive today, and also the single CPU models, but the most of the dual 2.5 or 2.7 units died in epic fashion.

This is probably Apple's worst "screw-over" to date, by never officially making a re-call... and just saying in 2006/2007 at the very height of the number of leak failures, "Hey sweet client, this new intel Mac pro is better than those shitty G5s in about 10 ways, so order now"

Talk about tangling a carrot, and wanting everyone to move on... I can say, that if you weigh acoustics, expand ability, reliability, and power, they finally got it right with the cheese-grater Mac Pro; it's just a shame so many valued customers had to pay a ton of cash for Apple's own G5 mistakes before the Mac Pro.

Maybe call it an "iSink"… after indibil’s original approach?

It isn’t pretty (yet) but the first “replicant” here is finally complete.

Very good job @aBc. Keep in mind that this heatsink, in addition to being made of copper, which greatly improves conduction, has a better construction than the original, which if you look closely, is a thin aluminum base, with INSERTED fins, which worsens conduction compared to that they were part of the same block.

Maybe you have a few less fins because I bought a 50x50 heatsink and yours was 50x100, and in the manufacturing process it may have a lower density of fins, but don't worry, the original heatsink is ridiculous, I don't even know how it dissipates. And a heatsink with pipelines is only a way to reduce costs, an entire block of copper conducts heat much better.

https://youtu.be/IiA4dH-3-EU?si=OAdjYYZ088SbCUuN

Maybe this heatsink should be called "aBsink", if my bad English doesn't make it sound bad