Hi, this is my first post here and my first mod.
Firstly i have seen alot of power Mac g4 being mod. But not the MDD.
Why? Probably they had the weirdest PCI slot placement. Hence alot of work will need to be done.
But i think the Mirror Drive door look very nice!
Here i will share how i made it possible to put in a Matx motherboard while retaining the whole outlook.
Before i start this projects i have been looking around for G4, i find that G4 have a very beautiful look. Hence i decided to mod it.
So i do want to keep the original look of the Powermac g4 MDD, whether it is the handle or the side panel, i do not want holes on the side of it.
Unfortunately in this modding, i did not took too much of my picture while doing it. But there are still a few of them but at low quality. so please bear with it.
So first thing is to plan out the spaces due to the small places within the G4.
Here is the layout.
As you can see the PSU is out is due to i did not want the PSU to cover up the onboard pinout, if not it will cause a bend.
First thing first! Remove the handle and the rest of the plastic cover.
But the back of the plastic is kinda difficult to remove but i am not going to cut it so it is okay
and here are the plastic parts
Edited by zetken - 4/6/12 at 1:33pm
Firstly i have seen alot of power Mac g4 being mod. But not the MDD.
Why? Probably they had the weirdest PCI slot placement. Hence alot of work will need to be done.
But i think the Mirror Drive door look very nice!
Here i will share how i made it possible to put in a Matx motherboard while retaining the whole outlook.
Before i start this projects i have been looking around for G4, i find that G4 have a very beautiful look. Hence i decided to mod it.
So i do want to keep the original look of the Powermac g4 MDD, whether it is the handle or the side panel, i do not want holes on the side of it.
Unfortunately in this modding, i did not took too much of my picture while doing it. But there are still a few of them but at low quality. so please bear with it.
So first thing is to plan out the spaces due to the small places within the G4.
Here is the layout.
As you can see the PSU is out is due to i did not want the PSU to cover up the onboard pinout, if not it will cause a bend.
First thing first! Remove the handle and the rest of the plastic cover.
But the back of the plastic is kinda difficult to remove but i am not going to cut it so it is okay
and here are the plastic parts
Edited by zetken - 4/6/12 at 1:33pm
the g4 sawtooth is a beauty too. i will post more picture soon on the inside and the i/o ports, and also the on, off switch.
