Totally depends on how much hacking about of the Cube you want to do: some folks have got Radeon 9000s in there, but you end up having to make new IDE ribbon cables and move the DC-DC converter board around inside the core.
More detailed information can be found in the CubeOwner FAQ.
pardon my ignorance, but didn the cube have no pci slots, or expansions options at all? how could one get a new proc in there? did they install new mobo?
pardon my ignorance, but didn the cube have no pci slots, or expansions options at all? how could one get a new proc in there? did they install new mobo?
The cube uses basically the same motherboard as older G4 Powermacs except that it does not have any PCI cards. It does contain however a AGP card slot and three Ram slots.
pardon my ignorance, but didn the cube have no pci slots, or expansions options at all? how could one get a new proc in there? did they install new mobo?
Graphics cards and CPUs don't use PCI slots, PCI is too slow for them. Graphics cards use AGP (basically a faster PCI), and Apple G4s use Sawtooth daughtercards. The Cube has both.
The processor is piggy-backed onto the rear of the motherboard, sunggled up close to the huge heatsink that forms the centre of the machine. It's nice engineering.
Dual 1GHz upgrades (sorry, I missed this bit earlier) seem to be the most that anyone will recommend, and these require an uprated DC-DC converter if you don't want Cube Flambé.
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More detailed information can be found in the CubeOwner FAQ.
Apple-brand GeForce 3
That's without any hacking.
Barto
Geforce3/ATI 9000/7500 (some mods required)
SuperDrive from MCE
Originally posted by thuh Freak
pardon my ignorance, but didn the cube have no pci slots, or expansions options at all? how could one get a new proc in there? did they install new mobo?
The cube uses basically the same motherboard as older G4 Powermacs except that it does not have any PCI cards. It does contain however a AGP card slot and three Ram slots.
Originally posted by thuh Freak
pardon my ignorance, but didn the cube have no pci slots, or expansions options at all? how could one get a new proc in there? did they install new mobo?
Graphics cards and CPUs don't use PCI slots, PCI is too slow for them. Graphics cards use AGP (basically a faster PCI), and Apple G4s use Sawtooth daughtercards. The Cube has both.
Barto
Dual 1GHz upgrades (sorry, I missed this bit earlier) seem to be the most that anyone will recommend, and these require an uprated DC-DC converter if you don't want Cube Flambé.