Imac G3 Dual Hard Drive Mod: Preparation

10 Comments on "Imac G3 Dual Hard Drive Mod: Preparation"

1. kasm279 says:

   January 16, 2010 at 8:41 pm

   You should have kept on going 
2. lifeinhd says:

   January 16, 2010 at 8:42 pm

   You have no idea how difficult it is to Dremel through a Microwave :/
3. kasm279 says:

   January 16, 2010 at 9:03 pm

   @lifeinhd you cannot run Leo on a G3. At all. For some reason apple cut out all G3 support…
4. lifeinhd says:

   January 16, 2010 at 9:47 pm

   I’m pretty sure someone on MacMod did a project where they managed to install Leopard on a pre-G3 machine.
5. kasm279 says:

   January 16, 2010 at 10:00 pm

   Notice i said G3 support. You can run Leo on a PowerMac G3 (either beige or blue) or a PowerBook Pizmo if you upgrade them to a G4 CPU and do some trickery in the installer.
6. theimacmodders1 says:

   January 16, 2010 at 10:01 pm

   Hot enough to burn the thermal paste off the heat sync and for it to fill the case with smoke
7. lifeinhd says:

   January 16, 2010 at 10:22 pm

   Hmm, nice.I’ve wanted to do liquid cooling on my G5 for awhile, but couldn’t justify ruining such a nice case Maybe if more caps blow, I’ll try it.
8. lifeinhd says:

   January 16, 2010 at 11:14 pm

   If you weren’t sure what the result of your OCing was going to be, then how did you know to add all that extra cooling?
9. theimacmodders1 says:

   January 17, 2010 at 12:09 am

   Well oridgonaly it was 500mhz nd I put it up to 600mhz nd I added the cooling then then when I booted it after the severl hundreth overclock and saw that it was 2.5 ghz I immediatly turned it off and added more cooling then it kept kernal panicking so I added more cooling qnt that seemed to fix it so the cooling was not all added at the same time
10. lifeinhd says:

    January 17, 2010 at 12:19 am

    Any idea how hot it got?