[peterthorn]

I have seen the great description at cubeowner.com on how to add a fan to a cube. I have purchased a fan, but the plug on the fan does not fit the plug at the computer. The hardware store has no idea on how to get a proper plug. Any ideas on what the type is called or how to get it? See picture
here!

TIA,
Peter

[joe]

You can buy those connectors and a crimp tool from Digi-Key (www.digikey.com).

Or you can save yourself a lot of money and grief by using a standard Y power cable (for hard drives) available at just about any local computer store. It's only a few inches long and uses one power connector for input and gives 2 power connectors out. It easily fits below the optical drive (or between the optical drive and hard drive). Because of the Cube's power cable, you'll have to tap off the bottom of your optical drive instead of your hard drive. Anyway, that's what I did last Spring when I hacked a Sonnet dual 500 cpu and 80mmx25mm cooling fan into my Cube. The Y cable works great and only costs a few bucks. regards.....joe

[peterthorn]

Thanks a lot for your reply, joe!
Now it's time to break that cube apart!!

Peter

[proux]

Well I managed to put the Y adaptator to the hard drive, but it is very very cramped and the Airport door hardly close... I got the enermax with variable speed, right now at 1/5th, hardly can hear it and the cube is much cooler inside, not locking up anymore because of heat (that was after I added a 120GB Maxtor).
I will try the DVD connector if not too hidden
Good luck.

[joe]

Originally posted by proux:
Well I managed to put the Y adaptator to the hard drive, but it is very very cramped and the Airport door hardly close...

Wow - congrats!!! It didn't look like my Y cable would fit off the hard drive so I never tried. I'm not sure if this matters or not, but I have an Airport card in my Cube.

I got the enermax with variable speed, right now at 1/5th, hardly can hear it and the cube is much cooler inside, not locking up anymore because of heat (that was after I added a 120GB Maxtor).
I will try the DVD connector if not too hidden

The Enermax is absolutely the best fan you can put in a Cube The more you upgrade your Cube, the more you can dial up the Enermax - from a low 12CFM all the way to a whopping 46CFM! No regrets installing the Enermax in my Cube. I'm sure I'll need that 46CFM someday - like right after PowerLogix comes out with the upgraded DC-DC converter board so I can run dual GHz! As Tim the Toolman Taylor would say - MORE POWER <ARRRR>

I did end up using the DVD power connector for my Y-cable / Enermax set up. It's been a while but I don't think it was too difficult to get to the front drive bays. You'll need to partially remove the DVD drive to get to the power connector. One thing I do remember is just how much open space is in the front of a G4 Cube. It looks as if you could almost squeeze in a 2nd optical drive - of course there was never any support for that in the brackets, cover, or IDE interface. But that extra space is what made it possible to do the Radeon 8500 hack .......joe

[proux]

Well, it is much better to use the power from the optical drive, not as cramped...


>One thing I do remember is just how much open space is in the front of a G4 Cube. It looks as if you could almost squeeze in a 2nd optical drive - of course there was never any support for that in the brackets, cover, or IDE interface.<

Just my thought, a slim superdrive? You would need to open the top of the case but I have a spare one...

I still can't persuade myself to get a dual 1ghz upgrade, doesn't make any economic sense ($800 for the cube + $250 for a Geforce3 + $1,2000 for the upgrade, almost the price of a new dual gig powermac).

[MacManMikeOSX]

i also hooked mine into the drives and mine are fine to this day. You guys should check out some of the led fans it looks awsome my cube now hs a blue glow coming from it.

[proux]

I thought about that but then bit too cheesy isn't it?