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How to: Modding a Beige G3
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Iowa State Univesity
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http://gossamer.student.iastate.edu/.../gossamer.html
Beware, this web page will only be up from ~7:30AM to ~1AM (central), because the computer is very loud and my roommate would be mad at me if it was on all the time.
I threw this page together the past couple days just kind of outlining overclocking my beige G3. I kind of wanted to put together a quick reference tool for people like I was a few weeks back.
Mikael
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Very nice.
I'm wanting to mod a Beige G3, but in a different way. It hit me in a wave of inspiration while I was on a walk. Picture this:
Take your average Beige G3, dismantle it totally and clean each plastic piece as thoroughly as possible. Then, spray each piece with a good primer. After that, go with a nice high-gloss white spray paint and go at each piece with 2-3 coats until you end up with a glassy look.
Replace the green power LED with a blue one (Radio Shack has 'em). Then, when putting the machine back together, add subtle blue LEDs in the drive bays so that they shine through the cracks. Replacing the power supply's internal fan with a blue LED one wouldn't hurt either.
Just a thought. I figure it would look stunning though. Of course, describing it is a lot harder than picturing it.
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Ooo, yeah, that sounds cool, and I actually had been thinking about dropping a blue LED in there like you were saying. It's probably just a 12V one, right? And since I am using this computer mainly for a server, I am trying to figure out a good case mod that would make it a bunch smaller, maybe Legos? I've got a ton of those at home doing nothing...hm....
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Update: Here's the new link for the site: How to mod a G3
It's being hosted on Angelfire (ads...boo) for the summer because I'm heading back home. But once school starts and I have nearly unlimited bandwidth again, I'll host it myself.
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Nicely done! Congrats on that beast 
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Look around on the web for links about the voltage regulator on that motherboard to make sure it won't fry if you put a hotter processor on it. I can't remember which models were affected.
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He can be fixed -- you can't.
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