snappylad Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 I'm looking to upgrade the hardware on a number of G3 kiosks. Just wondering if I need to up upgrade the motherboard to take the Intel Core2 Duo/3.0 Ghz Processor thats in the G4 or can I just swap the processor. Also is it just a matter of plugging in another 1gb or ram aswell. Anyone done this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchman Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 yes ,you need to change the motherboard for this upgrade.But you can find in this link the good CPU for the IBM KU1 original motherboard in G3 kiosk.This is like the first generation of the G4. http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL7E6 frenchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snappylad Posted November 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 thanks frenchman, do you if its ddr2 ram in the g4, will this motherboard take ddr2 if its not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchman Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 hi snappylab, this memory for G3 =>RAM type PC3200 a 400Mhz 2X 1Gb And this => reader/burner DVD samsung or LG compatible hardware in the G3 frenchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor brown Posted November 12, 2009 Report Share Posted November 12, 2009 Hi, You can upgrade the ram and put in a new DVD drive and the G3 will work fine with version 2 software, we did this 12 months ago and have even linked the G3 to an APEX and had no problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snappylad Posted November 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Are there four slots for ram or just two? might put four 1gb sticks in, I have some of these left from an old job. Thanks Trevor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbeen Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 hey mate, we've upgraded some of our G3's to p4 2.4ghz 400fsb and put in more ram , some have 768mb or 1gb.. the mobos pretty old only takes 400fsb cpus, it has 2 ram slots.. lemme know if u manage to upgrade ur g3's to core2duo's ;P im also looking into this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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