I got ticked off at my Cube and gutted it and sold the logicboard, CPU and the case to a friend of mine for a 100 bucks. I killed the power supply and shorted out the logicboard from a simple brown out and didn't have the system on a surge protecter that supports brownouts. I found a dual G4 CPU I think came from a sawtooth or a gigabit. So I went on ebay to find a logicboard and atempt to upgrade the B&W. Well I found a system that has everything but the HD and doesn't want to keep correct time and loses startup disk settings. When I get it i'll try out the CPU and if it works then i'll be adding water cooling for sure in it. Then maybe, just maybe I'll stop modding my B&W before I over do it lol.

TCPMeta wrote:


Sounds great! You might want to check your message box

TCPMeta wrote:


It sounds like it needs a new battery

Yea I kinda figured that. I have some extra batterys I pulled from a few begie G3s and from a couple of iMacs.

Well I won the bid so i'll get the system in a week or so then I can start bringing it to life and modding the heck out of it.

Great! Duals are awesome. What system did you buy? Some of the Sawtooths are not compatible with dual cpus. Let us know how your progress goes.
It will make for a great mod guide.

-maestro

Well it is a sawtooth system so I hope it will work. I got a wicked idea for the water block. If you remember my little home made heatsink I talked about for my B&W that it's just a chunk of copper. Well I can get another chunk that will fit and boar out the center with a drill press and then take some copper plating and add the fittings for the piping or hoses and weld the plate over the top of the chunk I boared out. I already have a water tank from a old system that fits in a 5inch drive bay so i'll have to modify the bay that is under the cd-rom bay so I can fit the tank in. Or I can just levae the cd-rom out and use a external firewire drive. As for the pump I can mount it on the bottom of the case near the HD. Only one thing that is stoping me on that is the pump. They cost way too much by them selfs so i'll just get a cheap water cooling kit from CompUSA and use the water block that comes with it for my video card. Also I have some neat ideas for a HD cooler too. Use some copper piping in a U shape under the HD and have the hoses going straight though it. In all heres the layout.

5inch watertank that fits in a 5inch drive bay. Hoses going to the pump with copper fittings for quick connect. From the pump to the HD cooler then to the CPU then to the video card and back to the tank.

Pretty simple if you ask me. The kit I want to get has a strong enough pump to handle it. I may end up doing a ATX power supply mod for this because the pump uses a lot of wattage and calls for a powersupply with 300 watts.

You know what, I think I will do the ATX mod. Anyone know a site that has the pinouts for a sawtooth power supply to ATX standard PC?

Well I just modded a PC ATX 350watt power supply for the sawtooth. Since the B&W and sawtooth use the same wiring for the power supply I used the B&W as a ginniepig. It works completly. Heres a little quick guide on what I did.

Codegen 350watt 115V/230V~, 8/4A 60/50Hz power supply.

Cliped Pin8 and Pin18 from the power supply's cable but left enough wire to splice the +3.3V and the Ground to Pin1 and Pin3.

Spliced Pin1 with Pin8
Spliced Pin18 with Pin3.

Just that simple, no modding the front panel or anything. Also this power supply is made full tower ATX cases so the cable is long and no need for a extintion cable. I'll use the floppy drive power for Fans and the Water pump.

Post edited by: TCPMeta, at: 2006/01/04 15:57

I want to install some LEDs for drive activies. I want one for my DVD and HD. I have all of the parts but I can't remember how to hook it up. I know in the past there has been threads about this stuff. So can anyone help?

You might check this out...

http://www.macmod.com/content/view/453/

Also, do you think that 350 is going to be enough power?