Recent content by lepidotós

Sure. It's really minor, but it's a nice to have thing nevertheless. Plus, people are buying G3s just to case mod, so it would be nice to give them a target to vent their latent resentment towards old tech on.

Yes, but the plastic itself has some brown corrosion on it, most visible on the handles. I'll get a picture up eventually. Yeah, finding my G4 for that price at all was a small miracle; I've never seen one that cheap even on the classifieds. I think a lot of the community conceptions about...

So, this one is less of a stretch than a processor daughtercard. Has anyone made models to 3D print out new case plastic? Mine is dinged up and corroded, which for $40 is fine since it's all there and the computer itself functions just fine, but I'd like to get it more like new if possible. If...

I'll make sure to do that.

Yes, but I want to keep use of my CD-ROM drive.

Sounds like a challenge, but I'm willing to look into doing it. I guess it was... optimistic to hope someone had already done it, or had the designs of the commercial boards on hand. Spreading the cost out over months is fine, I just can't justify an upfront $600 price. The particulars of why...

I didn't think I was giving limited information, but let me get excruciatingly detailed because it seems that we have different standards on that front. I bought just a chip, a Motorola XC7455A-RX1000PF, and my end goal is to have had a CPU daughter board custom printed for it, and each piece...

You don't. I aim to get a whole new PCB printed and stick the chips on that, nothing Apple or third-party. I completely ruled out the 7400 board for its lack of spots for L3 cache. As for the upgrade boards, my total budget is about $75-100 at most; those boards cost upwards of 19 times what I...

It's just the chip itself, a Motorola XC7455A-RX1000PF according to the source, singular though I might get one or two more since they're not super expensive just to have handy. I have my doubts that the computer would accept the dual-processor upgrade, seeing as it seems to be an early...

...and was told to come here. I've waited and read up on what I was confused on, and now I'm pretty sure I understand things. Still, I don't really know where to begin on actually getting the processor upgrade built. I can solder and all, but I've only just been around PowerPC Macs for the last...