My iMac G3 with Intel Core 2 Quad :-)

[jansan]

I'm so happy i just couldn't refuse to start this new topic. Its my first one so don't be mean :censored2:

 

Some of you will be dissapointed. This has nothing to do with modding your real G3 Hardware or changing PPC into Intel .

I had my old iMac G3 green case laying around so I thought "why not pimp my G3 into something usefull". This is what came out of this crazy idea:

 

Here we go (all of this can bes seen in the photos attached)

 

1. Almost nothing from the old Mac was worth keeping except the case and maybe the fan. i even changed the speakers. So the original hardware landed in the trash, all of it, i just kept the metal bottom plate

2.I had to adjust the power unit in order to make it fit.

3. LG Flatron 15 inch display had to lose a lot of weight .

3.Then a lot of hot glue, plastic straps, a drill, a bunch of extension cords. One for VGA D-SUB, 4 for USB, 2 for PS2, one for RJ45 to be precise. and finally i had my iMac done

 

I had to do a lot of soldering because: screen, speakers and motherboard had to be powered by one cable. The power on button had to be soldered so it works like in the original iMac. I even attaches a little red led light to indicate HDD working.

 

Now for the cool part: My "iMac" has a built in camera (Logitech quickcam web via macam), a built in microphone (simply glued to the original microphone hole and attached to the motherboard), and a built in Wireless Lan USB dongle

 

iPC 10.5.6 ppf5 made all this possible.

 

The specs:

Mobo: G31M-ES2L

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad (Vanilla Kernel - all cores working)

GPU: Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT (Working wonderfully, both displays, all connectors (DVI, D-SUB, S-VIDEO), EFI-String, QE/CI no issue :-) offcourse)

Wifi: Zydas USB Dongle (its a pitty but i will work on that :angry2: )

HD: Sata 300 GB

Audio: ALC 883 7.1 (unfortunately this one required some work (no input device, just output), but thanks to insanelymac i figured how to make it work like a charm)

Ethernet: Realtek 3111 (workes with no issues)

 

Everything vanilla sky. Deep sleep working with no glitches what so ever. I have to admit that i had to apply one patch - shutdown/reboot patch. :censored2: .

 

So this is it. Me showing of like ma madman . Hope this will encourage you to not only make your system like Apple but also your case like it should be so it feels like a real mac (even if its G3).

Wish everyone fun with viewing the shots i made.

[.ShadowFox]

Would have been cooler if you had a mac mini in there.