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G4 light hacking — #1

hey y'all, i want to replace all the green LEDs (Power, zip, DVD) in my new G4 with red ones, this would look really cool with the graphite case. I'd also like to do it on my monit…
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Anyone? — #1

Anyone stupid enough???? http://www.octools.com/articles/subm...ubmersion.html
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Anyone? — #2

That is insane. Wow. I dont get it though.. he shells out a grand for some chemicals, but wont spend 50 bucks on a transmission cooler (complete with cooling fins like a radiato…
MacNN PowerPC

Anyone? — #3

The bad part is, it does not work! Apparantely the Fluironite cannot withstand super low temperatures that the liquid nitrogen was bringing it down to... what a waste of 1000$+
MacNN PowerPC

Anyone? — #4

mad people, but from NZ, so what do you expect They also didn't take into account that most components have a *minimum* operating temperature too. So cooling that lump of celery …
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Anyone? — #5

This thing did work, and would have kept working if they just used the test setup: full of ice cubes and about half full of icewater. The liquid nitrogen was very cool visually &am…
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Anyone? — #6

"I have wondered sometimes if you could overclock safely by just sticking the CPU case inside a freezer compartment" That's a good Idea! (not that i'm going to try it on my G4 tho…
MacNN PowerPC

Anyone? — #7

Thats a BAD idea. Condensation. thats why. Anyway, you guys all have valid points, but personally I'd go for the alcohol. Why? Well, even if it doesnt work, you can still drin…
MacNN PowerPC

Anyone? — #8

hmmm... They got a 366 up to 650 before the cooling quit. A ratio of 1.77 to 1. If that ratio held up for a PowerPC chip, you could get a 500 up to at least 887 MHz. Also...conde…
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Anyone? — #9

I remember that someone had stuck computer internals in a fridge... they managed to OC a 33mhz 486 (?) to ~250mhz.. died like 10 minutes later, but was cool.
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Anyone? — #10

I remember I did an experiment kind of like that: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/000103.html The Godfather
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PowerBook 101 Design Idea... — #1

Because I bought a FireWire PowerBook, my older notebook, one of them PowerBook G3/333 computers. It's a really, really nice notebook, but now that it's unused, I can start screwin…
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PowerBook 101 Design Idea... — #4

Ye gods. When i read "PowerBook 101" in the topic, i thought you meant a PowerBook 100 Series. Dont ever scare me like that again
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Newer Upgrade Rebate: what conditions? — #1

The 466MHz G3 upgrade for iMacs brings in a $150 rebate if you mail in your old system board. What are the conditions for this rebate? Anyone has a contract close? Is someone eligi…
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WAHOO! iMac is all better! — #1

I got it repaired, and it's all good. The dudes who worked on it were really cool, they're a tiny LOOKING company that raked in over 3 mil last year. Wow. Even hold a few US pat…
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WAHOO! iMac is all better! — #2

Glad to hear it Ca$h, now if only we could see some pictures... ------------------ -Ruddigger ------------------ Have you had your gigaflop today?
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WAHOO! iMac is all better! — #4

I dont have soldering irons tiny enough to tinker with surface mount resistors. Think I'm nuts?!?!?! Actually. Don't answer that. Ca$h
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WAHOO! iMac is all better! — #5

anybody who says 'they aren't even Mil Spec like Moto' is gotta be ok show us da pix ca$h where is da frankenimac
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