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Over the last few weeks I have had a ton of help from various forum members with upgrading my G4. I've always enjoyed taking a look at the various setups that people have, so I thought I would take a few photos and show you what you guys have helped me make so far!
When I got this MDD, this secondary bay was empty and I hated reaching to the back for USB ports, so I purchased a 3.5/5.25 front side 2.0 USB card. It has green LED lights that glow when a port is active, and works wonderfully for adding a few new songs onto my shuffle. I'm sure it will also come in handy with thumb drives as well
Here we have the rear of the computer where you can see the new USB 2.0 ports as well as the FW800/USB ports. I also added 2 PCI exhaust fans to help keep the case nice and cool. On the advice of some of the forum members, I decided regular cleanings would be better than going crazy and replacing all the fans.
This is the hard drive bay closest to the heatsink. Two bays can fit here, however I opted to keep one in the lower bay and place one here (to keep one HD away from the heatsink incase of heat issues). In it's place I purchased a fan which blows directly on the heatsink to help keep it cool.
Here is another view of the inside. You can see the two pci fans, usb cord from the front side ports, and new video card (I went with the ATI 9200 128mb).
A big thank you to everyone out there, hopefully I can help some people as much as you've all helped me!
When I got this MDD, this secondary bay was empty and I hated reaching to the back for USB ports, so I purchased a 3.5/5.25 front side 2.0 USB card. It has green LED lights that glow when a port is active, and works wonderfully for adding a few new songs onto my shuffle. I'm sure it will also come in handy with thumb drives as well
Here we have the rear of the computer where you can see the new USB 2.0 ports as well as the FW800/USB ports. I also added 2 PCI exhaust fans to help keep the case nice and cool. On the advice of some of the forum members, I decided regular cleanings would be better than going crazy and replacing all the fans.
This is the hard drive bay closest to the heatsink. Two bays can fit here, however I opted to keep one in the lower bay and place one here (to keep one HD away from the heatsink incase of heat issues). In it's place I purchased a fan which blows directly on the heatsink to help keep it cool.
Here is another view of the inside. You can see the two pci fans, usb cord from the front side ports, and new video card (I went with the ATI 9200 128mb).
A big thank you to everyone out there, hopefully I can help some people as much as you've all helped me!