form factor fun

k k at thirdangel.com
Wed Apr 30 16:14:01 PDT 2003


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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