well as some of you will have seen my current Project PowerPC is on hold due to popping psu's and what i shall call "technical difficulties" read as i blew it up
so i thought i'd make some use of the spare parts that came along with my ebay purchase of a g4 case for that project
it all started off with some drunken ebaying and i unwittingly became the owner of 5 powermac g4s for the pricely sum of £16.02
now i only really wanted one for project powerPC but hey beggars cant be choosers and i thought at least i was guaranteed a decent case out of the 5
oh boy was i right.
i had 4 standard mac g4s one of which is now project powerpc and sitting in amongst the nasty stock 400mhz g4s was this badboy
it is a dual CPU'd MDD(mirrored drive door )
or one of these badboys
it has a different internal layout from the standard g4's(which will take a matx board with minimal chopping so the mdd was put to one side whilst project powerpc commenced.
final shot of prohect powerpc before she went belly up
anyhoos after the fateful death of my psu i was at a loose end and thought why not put together a semi temporary desktop rig so i can get my porn erm i mean ocuk fix whilst my main rigs in bits.
first things first as always with one of my projects the best way to start is with a nice cup of coffee
now this mdd has a dead dvd drive so I opened her up and located said drive
its the big silver bit on the left of the picture btw
2 screws some scraped knuckles and a few swear words later its out
new drive swapped into the caddy me being a tight scotch git i stole one out of the other g4's and as per haynes the fiting was the reversal of the removal but with added swearies
dropped a gig of ram in (have 4x512s coming next week to swap out for a whopping 2 gig
does it work?
seems to so far
flung an osx 10.5 disc in the drive and hey presto
and added some apple desk bling from ebay
£20 off the bay bargain
next on the list is a new gpu (have a radeon 9000 coming i won on the bay this afternoon for £16 more ram and hopefully if i can find one a sonnet cpu upgrade to give me some more oomph should boost my current dual 867mhz to well nearly double that failing that the soldering iron might come out for some proper hardcore overclocking none of this adjusting settings in bios malarkey. and possibly some watercooling
apologies for the rubbish pics (all rushed as i was doing this between 2 laptop reinstalls.
so i thought i'd make some use of the spare parts that came along with my ebay purchase of a g4 case for that project
it all started off with some drunken ebaying and i unwittingly became the owner of 5 powermac g4s for the pricely sum of £16.02
now i only really wanted one for project powerPC but hey beggars cant be choosers and i thought at least i was guaranteed a decent case out of the 5
oh boy was i right.
i had 4 standard mac g4s one of which is now project powerpc and sitting in amongst the nasty stock 400mhz g4s was this badboy
it is a dual CPU'd MDD(mirrored drive door )
or one of these badboys
it has a different internal layout from the standard g4's(which will take a matx board with minimal chopping so the mdd was put to one side whilst project powerpc commenced.
final shot of prohect powerpc before she went belly up
anyhoos after the fateful death of my psu i was at a loose end and thought why not put together a semi temporary desktop rig so i can get my porn erm i mean ocuk fix whilst my main rigs in bits.
first things first as always with one of my projects the best way to start is with a nice cup of coffee
now this mdd has a dead dvd drive so I opened her up and located said drive
its the big silver bit on the left of the picture btw
2 screws some scraped knuckles and a few swear words later its out
new drive swapped into the caddy me being a tight scotch git i stole one out of the other g4's and as per haynes the fiting was the reversal of the removal but with added swearies
dropped a gig of ram in (have 4x512s coming next week to swap out for a whopping 2 gig
does it work?
seems to so far
flung an osx 10.5 disc in the drive and hey presto
and added some apple desk bling from ebay
next on the list is a new gpu (have a radeon 9000 coming i won on the bay this afternoon for £16 more ram and hopefully if i can find one a sonnet cpu upgrade to give me some more oomph should boost my current dual 867mhz to well nearly double that
failing that the soldering iron might come out for some proper hardcore overclocking none of this adjusting settings in bios malarkey. and possibly some watercooling apologies for the rubbish pics (all rushed as i was doing this between 2 laptop reinstalls.
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currently installing again on a nasty raid0 combo of a 40gig deathstar from 2001 and a 11 yr old maxtor. I sense epic amounts of fail ahead
its only a hdd change out. 