Hmm just thought of an awesome name if I go with the green. Granny Smith. As it is a green apple. And it would be in a Apple case, and an old one.. Hmm fits at all levels..
I have an old Apple G4 Blue/White just laying around and I have been wanting to do something with that system. Because the hardware is just completely out of date and it doesn't have any features i like very much I decided to mod it and build a pc in it. Today I started with tearing down the system and deciding how far I want to go as this is my fist experience with modding.
My plan is to fit an mATX motherboard in here and go with and AMD APU, since I am on a very tight budget and this isn't my main rig, although it might be if it turns out killer. I will be trying to build as cheap as possible with the idea of upgrading gradually.
This here is the 'victim':
I do like the current colour scheme but as this case has been misused a bit by the last owner (I got it for free, awesome) I am seriously considering painting the entire case black/white or going extreme over the top lime green/black or something crazy like that.
Here it is sporting it's sexy internals and massive passive heatsink:
So, even though it all looks quite nice and old school, I started removing all the parts until I had a completely blank case. It is a fairly easy process,. Only the plastic plate on the IO and expansion slots were a bit harder, requiring a few clips to be pushed/pulled simultaneously. (I have also removed the plastic piece on the inside of the door, just not yet on this picture).
I think I will be removing the metal plate that runs through the case as a support for the PSU and fabricating some mounting mechanism myself and I will definitely remove the little bracket on the front part of the door as that has no use whatsoever.
I will do my best to update regularly and take pictures all the way through the process.
I would love to hear your ideas about this project and if you have any suggestions throughout this mod, all suggestions are welcome since I am completely new to this.
I'm still trying to figure out a name for this build but I assume one will present itself during the build.
Hmm just thought of an awesome name if I go with the green. Granny Smith. As it is a green apple. And it would be in a Apple case, and an old one.. Hmm fits at all levels..
Hmm just thought of an awesome name if I go with the green. Granny Smith. As it is a green apple. And it would be in a Apple case, and an old one.. Hmm fits at all levels..
With just gaming you will not need more than 8GB of ram. If you really want to know how much you need/use just open task manager and under the 'performance' tab check how much you actually use when gaming, browsing or under your normal load.
@multifrag That's why I was thinking of going with black/green. Although it would be funny to bring a scratched up old ass apple to a LAN party and see the look on people's faces
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