Apple G4 Cube mods

        photo du cube                             drapeau-fr
 
The Cube, althought an old computer now (born in july 2000, stopped in july 2001), stays an exceptionnal machine. It's owners hardly replace it and many people try to find one because it is easily upgradable (in contrary of a lot of Apple computers).
I had the chance of buying in june 2006 one of the 100 000 Cubes made by Apple.
The stock Cube had a G4 @ 450 MHz cpu, a ATI Rage Pro graphic card with 16 MB VRAM  and a (very noisy) Maxtor 20 GB 5400 rpm hard disk drive.
After a first upgrade in 2006 (Powerlogix G4 7457 @1,35 GHz, Radeon 7500 and 80 GB HD 7200 trpm) my Cube just had its second upgrade in april 2008 (G4 7448 @ 1,7 GHz, Radeon 8500 and 2,5" 160 GB 5400 rpm HD).


The goal of these pages is to help you to make your own mods.

1- mounting a Powerlogix G4 7448 @ 1,7 GHz card.       6 - Cube unmounting guide (on MacBidouille - in french)

 2- mounting a Radeon 7500.                                                7- Benches

 3- relocation of the VRM.

 4- mounting a Radeon 8500.

  5- mounting a 2,5" HD


Some links :

le forum du Cube  (in french).

Cubeowner .(Bible of the Cube owner).

another well done french site :  skymac.org

some parts for the Cube at Mac Pro.com or at YourMacStore.

and, of course,  MacBidouille  (news and forum).


If you want to contact me : macmodcubetam  at  free.fr  (replace "at" by @).

(made on 28/04/2008- last update 5/5/08)