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Good lord, how is the heat on this thing?

The iMac G3 is likely going to sit forever, the speakers are blown and the CRT is showing its age. After a while of running, black starts to turn red, and the more black is displayed on the screen, the deeper the red goes. The internets say it's a worn out tube, I have a guy I can call about...

Woah, what am I looking at? I'm not entirely sure, but I'm curious.

I think I'm going to make my marchintosh project my recently acquired G3 iMac. It needs new speaker cones, and I want to install an exhaust fan in it somehow. Speaker cones might be tricky to find, and the exhaust fan might also. I want the fan to pull air out of the top, but if it's too close...

I could try to take it apart and put it back together, but for me it doesn't feel like the metal inner shell is absorbing enough heat. I don't have the shielding in place on the bottom of the optical drive, so I can poke my finger into the optical drive door and physically tough the CPU, and...

I'm trying to think of a way to increase the cooling power inside a G4 iMac. It's cramped inside, the CPU and GPU are in strange places, and they run incredibly hot even with their strange method of cooling by sinking heat into its metal dome chassis. The processor is on the top of the logic...

I have a website in my house that's hosted of a Raspberry Pi. All I do with it is host pictures and files and a journal old computer things I do. I'm not cool enough to do HTML by hand so I use an old copy of Dreamweaver. I also didn't make the framework of the site myself, I took the MSN site...

LORD GABRIEL! Love that game, even if the engine is weird.

I was looking inside of my G3 iMac, looking to see if there was a place to put a fan. Ideally it'd be up top where the monitor is, blowing air up and out of the case, but I'm afraid of magnetic stuff getting with the tube, because it's right there. The bottom isn't a great idea because there's...

The WHIZZER, it was right in my face the whole time! That's the name of this iMac now. Absolutely. More fun, and less vulgar than the alternative.

I actually don't know. I didn't put a meter to the pins, but I vaguely remember plugging in a fan into the pins on mine, and no combination I tried made the fan spin up. I could be mistaken though. I don't think Macs had dynamic fan control until way later.

I have a Commslot 2 Ethernet card in mine, so it's off to the side. The heat in my machine was a nightmare to manage, but I have it stable. Mine is in a 6360 case, so it's smaller and a bit of a nightmare,G3 CPU card, Voodoo 2 GPU, the box is absolutely stuffed but I managed. A godsend are those...

I have a 225Mhz one, and I took the heatsink off of a dead 6360 board and put a fan in the center of it, it works extremely well. Anything you put on there will be better than what was on there from the factory. Beware, PCI cards will decrease proper airflow.

Random note, something I've noticed. I have a USB keyboard and mouse combo, like a trackpad built into the palmist of a keyboard. MacOS9 doesn't recognize the trackpad but can seee the keyboard. This same machine in OSX 10.4 can see and use both. I think some kinda edutainment month thing is...

Right when the PowerPC challenge comes to a close, and my battle with this urine-soaked G4 concludes, someone drops an iMac G3 in my lap. Pristine condition, no pee, everything works. Encore.

Playing UT4K4 and Minecraft. Also GardenTunes. I installed a mod for UT that replaces the monsters with Doom 3 Demons, and I'm having a blast. I also think I would move the Minecraft server to a Raspberry Pi and connect to it, that way I can keep working on this kingdom on other machines. Also...

I removed the resistor for the fan, so it's spinning at whatever the G4 thinks is good enough. I don't think I've observed the G4 fan spinning any faster or slower at any heat level, it seems to just go at a set speed. I've seen the G4 fan control program before, and that works wonders with my...

Re-creaming the G4 iMac heatsink and heat pipes, as well as letting the fan run at a higher speeds helped quite a bit, but I think the heat management in the G4 iMax is just not great. The system no longer does thermal shutdowns, but the processor runs really hot. Hot enough to steal my...

Mine looks like the attached image. It has 2 points of contact. I re-creamed the contact points, but it doesn't feel like the heat is radiating through the inner chassis properly. The bottom front is hot as expected, but the whole front isn't as warm as I think it should be. I had felt a...

I think I put the G4 back together wrong, those heat pipes are misalligned with the metal chassis that it sinks its heat to. The system overheats and freezes, I can feel the internal heat pipe and it's extremely hot, and the rear of the chassis was not even remotely warm. A curious thing.