Converting A G3 To A G4, gutting a G3 Options

[Synthetik]

A friend of mine that seems to be very good at getting every bit of life out of his B&W G3 asked me an interesting question.

If he get his hands on a G4 mother board (he has an odd ability to get computers and parts) can he with moding the mounting screws be able to have a G4?

I know the hard drives and the CD drive wont be a problem, The things I don't know about though are the power supply and the video card.

He has an amazing ability to make stuff work:

He over clocked the processer for 350 to 500 and mounted an extra cooling fan under the CD drive to help with cooling. he bought an internal CD R/W from me and ran power and data cables out of an extra PCI slot. So I have no worries that he will mess any thing up. I just don't know about the Power and Video. Fireware shouldn't be a problem since only the case will be G3

[CanadaRAM]

The only G4 motherboard that matches the B&W G3 case is the 350 MHz and 400 MHz G4 with PCI graphics card, called the "Yikes " motherboard. All G4's with AGP motherboards from 350 MHz and up have a different physical alignment of the ports on the back. Installing would involve modification of the case. I don't have both models here so I don't know how extensive this would have to be.

Thanks
Trevor
Canadaram.com

[Synthetik]

You bring up a very good point that I never thought of. I know he would not want to use a motherboard from a yikes G4 (too slow) I will relay the information,

Thanks

[DaDrum50]

You should checkout this website, I converted my Beige G3 to a G4 processor.

http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.c...s=Show+Upgrades

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