Upgrading your Mac

[(SEALs) one]

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,

one

[(SiX)Ben]

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

[|MP|Buccaneer]

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.

[Jeb]

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