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Powermac G4 Revamp
After looking at all these amazing G5 conversions, I thought I'd have a go at it myself. eBay was not being kind to me for a long time, everyone wanted a whole lot more money than I wanted to spend for just the G5 case, but then I found this little G3/G4 for a bank destroying £10.
I was planning on upgrading to the Sandybridge CPU's and Z68 chipset motherboards, as I wanted 100% compatibility for my main desktop computer, so with the old P55 motherboard and Intel i5 760 processor, I decided to re use them in this powermac revamp.
After some time, finally got all of the parts out of the machine, it's not as easy as I first thought...
Skip to page 2 for the final build photos if you want spoilers, if not then happy reading my progress!
After looking at all these amazing G5 conversions, I thought I'd have a go at it myself. eBay was not being kind to me for a long time, everyone wanted a whole lot more money than I wanted to spend for just the G5 case, but then I found this little G3/G4 for a bank destroying £10.
I was planning on upgrading to the Sandybridge CPU's and Z68 chipset motherboards, as I wanted 100% compatibility for my main desktop computer, so with the old P55 motherboard and Intel i5 760 processor, I decided to re use them in this powermac revamp.
After some time, finally got all of the parts out of the machine, it's not as easy as I first thought...