The Quadra 630 and it’s near twins, the Performa and LC 630 Series (1994) marked the first time a desktop Mac used IDE instead of SCSI for hard drives.
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Starting with the Macintosh Plus in 1986, Macs supported SCSI drives. In the world of computing, there are incremental, almost invisible changes, and there are significant, game changing ones.įor Mac users, one of those game changers was the move from more intelligent and more expensive SCSI hard drives to IDE* drives, which are electronically incompatible.
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However, I like the design too much to do anything =p.One of the best ways to speed up your Mac is with a bigger, faster hard drive (adding more system memory is the other), but there are less hard drives for PowerPC ‘Books than before, and they tend to be lower in capacity than today’s Serial ATA (SATA) drives. Without keeping the beautiful design, I could put wholes everywhere. When I opened up the case to check everything, I could feel the heat leaving the case. Even with fans pushing air towards the CPU (I have one mounted in the CD bay) it is still warm in there. Nothing is overclocked, but it is poor design to have the PSU directly across from the CPU. Man, they do get a little higher than I like. Overall, this was a very straight forward and easy mod. This power supply is not modular, so I have a mess of cables that I will have to "clean up" later. This is the final (mostly) pic of the inside.
The only small issue I have with opening it is that it needs a little jimmying, but that is ok. Here is the back of the case after all the parts were cleaned and reassembled. I think white is positive and blue is negative. No worries, I just switched the plugs for the reset button plugs, worked like a charm. Soldering and cutting done! I think I messed up on the top power button, later testing revealed it didn't work. I have to cut the connections to prevent shorts, and I have to solder the proper buttons. Now, when I close the case, the motherboard does not get caught there in the corner.īecause of the alignment of the motherboard, I had to bend the case in a little at the top so as to make clearance for the PS/2 ports even though I am not using them. I made the right choice and trimmed the case and not the motherboard (YAY!).
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I had a debate in another thread on how to solve this problem. No worries, there is plenty holding this board in place! Unfortunately two of the five screws did not stay, but then again they were not properly mounted it turned out.
I used the weight to help it stay in place. I also did this so the graphics card would line up nicely. I wanted to keep the audio ports, and to do so I had to give up my PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard ports (not a big loss). Sorry I didn't get a pre-mod pic, I was in a bit of an excited hurry.ĭid quite a rough cut on this. Here is the case with all the sides removed.
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From this, and a ton of reading through other mod threads, I had a feel for the alignment. Here I laid down the motherboard to make sure I could see how it aligned roughly. The hard drive is a spare I had lying around, I plan on upgrading it and dual booting this in the future. Graphics: Zotac Geforce GTX 560 1024MB (new part) RAM: 8GB of Patriot Extreme Gaming 800 Mhz DDR2 I had some old parts I wanted to throw together (from a previous rig which I upgraded), and I had a case someone had given me (thanks shadowvox from ******!). Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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