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Hi folks, I did my first Built in September and everything worked fine but i'm still dealing with an annoying problem i can't solve and at the moment have finished my options. my Built is a gigabyte H87M d3h with an intel i5 4460 installed. 4x2 gb of crucial ram, the recommended wifi card and...

To finish the surgery a new 250 gb SSD would be needed but it is quite expensive so I'll do it in a future. before I want to install Mountain Lion to see how this computer behave with a newer OS.

the system after the snow leopard installation is surprisingly fast and according to geek bench 2 is as fast as my mac mini mid 2010. Not bad for a 2006 old not working machine. this is a picture before the firmware and software update showing the core 2 duo installed successfully

During the xmas vacation i Managed to swap the CPU and after i installed snow leopard. ( MANY THANKS TO IFIXIT) This is a photo of the final part of the job. Then following the advice of the link mentioned above i managed to modify the firmware to pretend to be a IMAC 5.1 ( late 2006) so i...

I was experimenting kernel panic after a long sleep of the Computer. I leave it running overnight and when i touch the keyboard it wake up and after few seconds or father i launch an application i have KP and self reboot.

Hi I had a i5 4460 a gigabytes h87 and no discrete graphic card. I had experimenting your same proem and I have solved disabling in the bios setting boot extreme ram profile and turbo boost. Look at this tread...

Now that the mac is up and running I decided to give him a chance before to kill him so I bought a used intel core 2 duo T7600 on eBay as my personal Xmas gift. This is the fastest cpu that the mobo can handle and according to to this guy it's possible to reach a still decent configuration...

Then it took me a week or more of night work to install leopard. i have no success neither with DVD nor with USB keys so in the end I succeeded using an external hard disk

I installed the hd disk and 2 gb of ram and pushed the button and ...... Taaaaa Daaaaaa. ! windows vista , that was previously installed on the hd come out

I found that the hard disk was missing as well as some screws was. I modified the original stand to mount a 2,5" hd. It was a one minute job with my new dremmell

Thanks to ifix the process was not so complicated as I thought, it took me one our approximately.

So I prepared my surgery table on a free big table and stated to open the poor boy.

By the time the imac arrived I had already bought the necessary tools according to the ifix guide and I have discovered that an old laptop it was given to me for free mount the same kind of ram and hard disk. It had 2 x 2gb ram modules that are far more than this imac can get and a 200 gb sata...

I bought for a bargain price this beautiful imac that was without ram and hard disk and probably damaged. The idea was to use the case and the monitor to build my second hack. This particular model is very fascinating to me, and I see one of them every time I go to my gas station so one day...

See you soon sbrillo. My project in in pause because I'm dealing with a second project. I bough an imac 20" early 2006 on eBay and ....... See the story here. http://www.tonymacx86.com/imac-mods/150690-imac-20-early-2006-brain-surgery.html

what do you mean with " I have to use the original cooler" ? i suppose you mean the one that came with the intel processor. right ? I use that one that fits exactly between the mother board and the psu shelf. It depend a lot from how you manage the fan speed, i start running at lower speed...

I'm still a beginner but have a look to my mod for ventilation ideas http://www.tonymacx86.com/powermac-g4/138374-powermac-g4-italian-job.html please as I added put the intake fan on the right side not in the Center

As you can see in this picture, a part from the messy garage, i have reused the original standoffs. I painted them in red, and glued to the door. No problem so far. I also did the basic cutting for the I/O ports and for leave some clearance between the ram and the "DRIVE SHELF" In the future i...

As you can see in in the center of the bottom part I added an 80 mm intake fan to get fresh air in. ( at the moment it is connected as SYS FAN 3 and is controlled by the HW monitor application ) In the upper part of the case ( the case is upside down in the photo ) i drilled many holes to let...

After a while i am proud to say that my first case mod is almost finished. This is just a first picture of the system fully assembled and, as you can see, working. During the re assembling step i faced some minor problems that wasn't mentioned in other builds log. Anyway the system now is...