[G4] form factor fun

[Jason Anthony]

Here is a link that will at least answer part of your question. This guy
slapped a gigabit board in a yikes chassis.

http://homepage.mac.com/josephk/G4_mod.html

I've done a similar mod just recently. I picked up a 800 mhz daughtercard
form a Quicksilver 2002 and installed it in my Sawtooth. After a firmware
upgrade, PLL tweaking, and a little hacksawing on the heatsink it works
great.

Jason





-----Original Message-----
From: k [mailto:k at thirdangel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 4:14 PM
To: Power Macintosh G4 List
Subject: [G4] form factor fun


Hello all

Thought I'd kick off my membership of this list with an esoteric 
hardware query: are the mount points for the different G4 
motherboards the same, or different? I know the form factor has 
changed totally with the introduction of the new Mirrored Drive Doors 
(Wind Tunnel, Cheese Grater, DDR, whatever you want to call it) model 
but the previous ones - are they so different that you couldn't, say, 
mount a Gigabyte Ethernet motherboard in a Yikes case? Or a 
Quicksilver case for that matter?

I know the power supply for the Yikes is a 20-pin like the B&W G3, 
and the MDD newbie is a 24-pin in a peculiar shape, but assuming you 
could change the PSU in whatever case to a 22-pin appropriate for the 
Gigabyte Ethernet board - is this all feasible?

Anyone here had a chance to compare machines on this level?

Cheers,
Kay.
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