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Building a comp from scratch
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Could you strip out the mobo from a Mac with relative ease? Making a completely new case, different from my beige G3, is a very appealing project to me. Actually, even using a PC mobo would be fun...
Anyone have any suggestions as far as a total system redesign? Any hints/tips for either doing it for a Mac or a PC? Any ideas as far as a case design, anything, will be welcome.
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Yes, it's possible, but unfortunately nobody sells empty Macintosh cases (without the chips). A beige G3, for example, that you hope to upgrade can only be upgraded to a certain extent. For example, you cannot just go out and buy the latest G4 to fit in there. You need to find cards compatible with your computer. You can look it up somewhere. A PC case, though, can only use PC chips. I cannot quite explain why, though.
Good luck! You'll need it.
[ 01-20-2002: Message edited by: Jansar ]
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Check eBay for cases. I see them every now and then.
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I know a guy from nantucket, and well lets just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.
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Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
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So I guess you CAN get cases. I never knew.
However, if you really do want the best configuration, Apple's minitowers already come with the best equipment, so it's really pointless to go out and buy all the parts yourself.
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Here's what I did for my beige G3:
1.) Bought B&W G3 motherboard & front panel board off ebay.
2.) Bought full tower PC ATX case
3.) drilled holes in ATX mobo tray for the B&W board and mounted it.
4.) moved Radeon card, drives, processor (500mhz G3), RAM (All my RAM was PC100 so it worked), etc. over from my beige G3 to the new mobo.
5.) mounted front panel board in PC case and soldered wires from the power and reset buttons on the case to the switches on the front panel board.
6.) got a thin piece of sheet metal and made a custom I/O shield for the B&W.
Project cost me about $350-$400 in parts & tools.
Worth it? maybe not, but the 100mhz bus and faster IDE controller of the B&W feels faster.
[ 01-20-2002: Message edited by: jcadam ]
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There's actually this old article in MacAddict (around a year back or so) that talks about buying older computers and building them up nicely while being able to save mega $$. If I find it, I'll post it here.
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