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Ok, so, I got my hands on a free B&W G3 motherboard, and I am planning on using it to build a G4 system. Its the Rev 1 board, which sucks, but I can get around its shortcomings with a PCI IDE hard drive card, no biggie.
Please, no suggestions on buying a mac mini with the money I could use to upgrade this system, the system I'm planning could rape the mini in so many ways, it has absolutely no expansion.
The motherboard currently has a little less than 500 MB RAM, the sh!tt! Rage 128 card.
I am planning on giving it 1 GB RAM, a Radeon 9200 128 MB PCI video card, 2 hard drives linked to a PCI IDE card, a 1 GHZ Sonnet G4 upgrade ZIF, wireless, bluetooth, and a superdrive, all thrown into a nice aluminum ATX case.
I've looked over a few websites about this and its completely possible and looks decent, does anybody else have any construction suggestions or advice?
Thanks in advance.
When I'm done with the project hopefully I'll be able to put up some pictures of the consruction and completion on my new monster.
Please, no suggestions on buying a mac mini with the money I could use to upgrade this system, the system I'm planning could rape the mini in so many ways, it has absolutely no expansion.
The motherboard currently has a little less than 500 MB RAM, the sh!tt! Rage 128 card.
I am planning on giving it 1 GB RAM, a Radeon 9200 128 MB PCI video card, 2 hard drives linked to a PCI IDE card, a 1 GHZ Sonnet G4 upgrade ZIF, wireless, bluetooth, and a superdrive, all thrown into a nice aluminum ATX case.
I've looked over a few websites about this and its completely possible and looks decent, does anybody else have any construction suggestions or advice?
Thanks in advance.
When I'm done with the project hopefully I'll be able to put up some pictures of the consruction and completion on my new monster.