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Title: Upgrading your Mac Post by: (SEALs) one on October 26, 2002, 11:49:37 pm Hey guys,
I have a G3 400mhz imac with 8mb video card. I know I can upgrade my proccesor to 800mhz G4 from Sonnet Technologies, but my question is: Does the processor upgrade come with the whole motherboard, which would replace the graphics card also? Cheers, (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/YaBBImages/beer.gif) one Title: Re:Upgrading your Mac Post by: (SiX)Ben on October 27, 2002, 12:34:47 am I upgraded my g3 Biege Desktop with a g4 466 processor from... I don't remember who... (someone I had heard of at MacWorld) Anyway, the point being I never had to replace the mother board, just the processor (which might I say is a bitch to do because the little thingies you gotta stick into the right holes... And they only gave us just enough, so if I dropped it I had to spend a buncha time trying to find it again)
Ben -- P.S. I digress - You won't have to replace your mother board Title: Re:Upgrading your Mac Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on October 27, 2002, 12:49:19 am One, the processor in the old iMacs were on daughter cards. So replacing the processor is just unplugging a card and plugging a new one it (like it was a RAM DIMM, just 5 times the size). I saw the 333 iMac get upgraded. It took all of 5 minutes.
So, the answer is no. You are still stuck with the old, shitty video card. Title: Re:Upgrading your Mac Post by: Jeb on October 27, 2002, 12:54:40 am it would be interesting to find a g4 agp4x motherboard on ebay and drop that in the g3.
i'd just buy a new computer rather than upgrade the g3, you can get a emac for around 1,000$ that will smoke any form of upgraded g3, or just wait till the power4 and agp 8x come out, like i am |