On 2/20/11 3:13 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote:
Newegg too. The thing is that I really wouldn't dump TOO much cash into G4s, but if the kit's $30 and I owned G4s that needed them, I'd probably buy them. Good luck! Illirik Smirnov
Biggest problem I've come across to date is that unless I can find someone who makes decent sized power supplies with enough wattage and still fit inside the case, your pretty much left either modifying your case to fit it, or putting the power supply outside (which is what I usually do). I did find a few that are thin enough, but they put out 300w or less, which on a MDD, is a bad idea.
Its kinda tricky, but with enough moving around, bundling, and pushing, you can fit pretty much all the cables you need for drives, mobo bundle, and the 4 pin extra bundle in the hole meant for the IEC plug on the back of the MDD. Esp. if you get a modular one that the PSU just has connectors on the back of it to plug in your own choice of cables, this works extremely well.
The wire bundles aren't that difficult to make, but its one of those things where if your going to do it, you have to do it right or you'll either fry the board, damage the heat sink when a cable gets in the way, or even rip the power headers off the mobo.
But, that is why I was offering to build the necessary cabling if people were interested. If I could find a vendor for the power supply, then I could probably offer to build whole power supplies - but like you said, there comes a point where you may be spending too much to keep an old machine alive.
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