Blue and White 400Mhz and some tweakin

[rhpenguin]

Yep Im fully aware i need to do some drilling.. I can get the little posts and tap the holes myself with a tap and die set. Also im fully aware of the issues with the powersupply know that i need a new one. And im not going to be using ADC because im going for the retail version of the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition (which has VGA and DVI).

Overall it should be a pretty simple mod.

 

[Mord]

if your going to do all that moding you may as well flash a 9800 it would be allot cheaper

(get parts from america and have them shiped over there a allot cheaper but remember to add duty which is about the same as vat 17.5%

 

[rhpenguin]

Do you have any guides for flashing the 9800? Ive heard it done but have not found any reliable info on how to do it?

And i would rather get my parts in Canada vs. getting them from the USA just so i dont have to pay duty and shipping fees

 

[7on]

The G3 B&W has no AGP port, only PCIs.

 

[Mord]

the guy is going to pop a quicksilver mobo in there.

as for 9800 flashing go over to www.cubeowner.com in the faq under graphics cards ect there are some roms one of them is a 9800 rom that has been reduced so you dont need to change the eeprom as shown in this guide http://mapage.noos.fr/campahunta/radeon9800/pc_9800_conversion.html.

you dont evenhave to move the resistors if you use the reduced rom just flash it on and tape the connectors to go into agp 2x/4x mode

 

[rhpenguin]

mmmmmmm goodness.. thanks for the info Hector.

I cant wait till i get my frankenMac complete. It ships out tomorow and i hope to have all my mods done by the end of October (depending on available funds and ease of obtaining parts).

 

[Mord]

where did you buy it from? i got mine from owc and i'm letting it go soon to trade for a cube plus £200, realized that i wont use the pci slots and i'd much rather have fun upgrading a cube, more of a challenge than adding a zif some more ram and a couple of 7200rpm HD's.

now i have to save up for a dual 1.4GHz giga designs upgrade, a zalman passive watercooling set, one sapphire radeon 9800 pro to flash, 1GB of ram (cube comes with 512MB) two danger den gpu waterblock peltier units and one thermaltake low profile gpu waterblock for the 9800, one fanless 480w power supply, one tube of arctic silver epoxy one tube of regular arctic silver and two sets of copper ramsinks for the l3 cache the 9800 and the vrm board.

10 points to the person that understands half of that, hehehehe