Power Mac G5 Graphics Card Upgrade Shenanigans

[@charackthe]

Druaga videos are full of dramatic ironies. We, the audience, are aware that this isn't going to be a simple video because it's more than one hour long but, Druaga is unaware of what he is about to get in to.

[@raven4k998]

that cd drive sounds like the fire alarms going off inside it🤣

[@Vienna3080]

Man I can’t believe this video is almost 8 years old I remember watching this back in 9th grade 😭

[@actualhyena]

Industry Know-Nothings: "A cinematic 24 FPS." Druaga: "A pretty poopable 20 FPS."

[@glorimona]

I credit Danooct1 in about 2011 for getting me into computers, but Ian and It'sMyNaturalColour have definitely expanded my love for Macs, vintage and new. Plus, Ian really gets me in the happy feels whenever he does really weird and interesting shit that may or may not work in terms of hardware. Thank god for you, Ian.

[@jacksontint]

I love how everything becomes an hour long video

[@raven4k998]

that's Druage1 for you he magic with that one

[@Kalmaro4152]

5:19 I called it even before I knew when this video was made. The first thing I thought when I saw the cable was "Determination"

[@LiamGoodison]

Hilarious, but I love the way you don't give up

[@joshuanorris5860]

Hahaha yeah. He seems to not give a fuck how long the video ends up being. And its part of the charm :D

[@raven4k998]

just remember if at first you don't succeed try try try try try try try try again and try try try some more till maybe something works that's the Drauga1 way

[@AdamBGames]

I get so really excited when druaga uploads

[@Grovichun]

+AdamB I know right :D

[@samuelvanvliet6597]

+AdamB same for me mate!

[@plaidzior]

i getz hornee

[@AdamBGames]

+Plaid we all do

[@plaidzior]

+Ziyad Mullick thats good

[@MrOpenGL]

"LE" = Low Energy or similar. Usually for laptops. Basically a power-optimised (and thus with less processing power) version of the 7600 GT.

[@sethseth6ify]

+MrOpenGL I instantly thought "Light Edition"

[@vgaggia]

+MrOpenGL Noo its the Lame Edition

[@SuperMarshallgaming]

actually limited edition i believe

[@oldaccount4930]

actually Low Epicness

[@SuperMarshallgaming]

Timothy Shek true shit

[@charlottedashwood6034]

I’ve been watching your videos for a while now. You’re a very clever young man.

[@raven4k998]

man this pc dates back to when apple still cared about the computers they built with pride and built to last not like the junk they make now days

[@tjhill0110]

An hour long Druaga video? Blessed be my day!

[@arson900]

+Bob Pony and mac our prophet

[@AceGamer445]

Druaga, the dual-processor G5 might have some sort of EFI firmware on it, which would explain why it was able to boot off of the GUID drive, despite the fact that it is a PowerPC Mac.

[@Illusca]

after watching the linux video i like the foreshadowing where we see the begining of the blinking light of death this poor G5 becomes victim too

[@meemee1357]

I have reconsidered, and have decided not to yell at you for not putting in the fans.

[@banemihajlovic6638]

Late 2005 G5s 2.0 and 2.3 are single CPU dual core models, not dual proessor. Quad G5s are dual core + dual CPU. Earlier G5 models are single core, single or dual CPU. BTW great videos :)

[@xRemRooodx]

You can say that he tested these game on "MAC'S graphics" huehueheue

[@kquote03]

Ouch .....

[@joshuanorris5860]

Rofl.

[@not-applb]

@@joshuanorris5860 you sound like you're laughing so hard(!)

[@usodarou]

@@not-applb he sounds like a gnome

[@soundguydon]

Damn -- I wish Apple would go back to this design for their pro desktops.. So much better than a trashcan & actually expandable..

[@loganiushere]

Donald Person BuT iF iT’s ExPaNdAbLe YoU wOnT bUy A nEw TrAsH cAn iN 3 MoNtHs! Yeah, you’re right, but to be actually fair to apple, I think their trash cans are smaller than these towers. Still, just put the tower under your desk and you’d be golden, no matter the size.

[@raresideb]

eYYYYYYY

[@not-applb]

welcome to 2020

[@Jacopo599]

@@nooflebot yeah... it only costs like a good used car

[@bad-e-mations9100]

You got your wish

[@WalnutSpice]

Ug whenever I see Halo I wanna watch Red Vs Blue but whenever I watch Red Vs Blue I wanna play Halo. It's a never ending cycle

[@trentgreene6150]

There is a 6 pin pcie connector on the G5's mobo (atleast on the last revision of the G5s). It's right by the intake fan for the pcie slots -- You don't actually need to remove the fans to get to it.

[@johnlawless6438]

There's something inherently watchable about his videos.

[@raven4k998]

it's movie magic your seeing at it's best

[@TheTurksMusic]

i love your videos, i have so much fun watching them and a lot of nostalgia, thank you for everything you do

[@awsomDixie]

I KNEW that there was an undertake reference coming when you were looking at the power connecter!

[@foreclosedhandle]

Undertake! My favorite!

[@awsomDixie]

+maxrrs3 it's a typo (undertale)

[@flippy08100]

It's these videos that make me fall asleep mid-term in the afternoon. Like your videos btw ^^

[@ratedasmr7811]

*flashlight strobes* "Oh god" Basically every bad decision I make. Ever. Which is usually all decisions

[@andrewcrawfor1381]

i stumbled across one of your videos while i was watching uxwbill n i got to say your funny as hell keep it up

[@crylune]

21:09 wtf happened here and why is no one mentioning it

[@EnigPartyhaus]

But... but LGR is on at the same time on The WB. How am I going to watch both now. HOW AM I GOING TO DO THIS DRUAGA I DON'T HAVE PICTURE-IN-PICTURE ON THIS TV

[@raven4k998]

get another tv with youtube and watch the other one on that while you watch this one

[@Vienna3080]

The Dual 2 core CPU G5 with a Quadro Fx4500 and SSD is very damn good especially if you use Lubunto with it, its obsolete but fun as hell to mess around with and to use

[@hanro50]

These is just me being curious about all these "install Windows on it's" These uses PPC architecture, not x86, arm or x64, no Windows version was officially released for PPC architecture

[@abandonedchannel7561]

Hanro50 nt 3.51, 4.0

[@memorylanewastaken]

And NT 5.0 and Windows 2000

[@memorylanewastaken]

And XP

[@DaniRadioCat]

Heh, I still remember when my local UPN affiliate would run Infomercials from like 10am to 5pm on weekdays ;) (not even syndicated court or talk shows)

[@sugna82plays61]

Hey druaga1 keep up the great videos. You truly are our God of KZbin entertainment.

[@jokerzwild00]

I'm actually surprised Doom 3 ran as well as it did on the 6600le. I remember using the time demo in that game to test out all the various tweaking I did to my pc back in the day.

[@TotemSP2]

How many videos in a row are we going to get, where a situation requires opening an optical drive, and Hirens boot CD just happens to be in there for whatever reason?

[@TotemSP2]

+Totem Or in the same video even...

[@Mayban36]

"Watch Druaga1 Tuesday nights at 8pm CST, only on UPN" wats dis?

[@Mayban36]

+Moose 1-1 rofl

[@Raven10241]

nope his videos are as reality based as he is trying an idea not something super planned out and scripted

[@2Jade4u]

I just love how every video something goes wrong.

[@raven4k998]

I'm going to get my car grandma

[@raven4k998]

I love that shit

[@AiOinc1]

"It's kind of quiet" I've got the dual 2.0 G5 with an 80GB disk running fairly quiet. I think 2GB of system memory and the FX5200. Any idea on what's the best AGP PowerMac G5 video card? Despite the FX5200 being perfectly fine for all my games, any idea on what I can put in there? I've gotta GeForce 7950GT but that's not a Mac card.

[@Rustymonkey13]

I wish I had a collection of different computers like Druaga1.

[@Rustymonkey13]

+Bob Pony Neat, how do you go about acquiring many different PCs?

[@sym-bionicwaffle7737]

"That's right; the mac-daddy of all Mac video cards! From 2005..." This is why I love Druaga.

[@desther7975]

Maybe you damaged your IDE cable when you forcefully tore the old optical drive out of there :/

[@raven4k998]

one can only hope

[@michael37327]

If you own a PowerMac G5 you should purchase an Apple Systems Diagnostics CD. The CD performs a hardware check on all of your components and if your fans are running on full speed the CD performs a thermal calibration and readjusts your fan speed. This CD will keep your PowerMac running for years to come. The Disk is called ASD 2.5.8 and is sold on Ebay

[@bigspiderman217]

I love how you bypass the editing portion.

[@bolshoff97]

You can just flash another BIOS at the Quadro to make it work, i assume.

[@LightyNourT]

Another hour long video. Let me get my Mountain Dew.

[@segaprophet]

+NourGodly1592 and Fritos Flavor Twists duude

[@sorsu]

+NourGodly1592 you got to get your kek hat on

[@sorsu]

Alfie Hudson we all do, we all do....

[@rubeusvombatus]

Druaga needs to do a Ultimate Power Mac G5 video

[@kujiko88]

You can finally play halo on a power pc!!! Awesome! I was never able to get that working during my childhood.

[@AceGamer445]

Anyone notice at roughly 34:10 the tooltip for "Enable IME" asks the user to consult the Windows documentation? I guess they forgot to change that string of text when they ported the code over!

[@omysan]

i just watched a hour of nothing, but i liked it , thumbs up druaga1

[@henrytriff9391]

I like having longer videos it's different than other youtubers

[@ceejayszee]

More "2005 universe" videos please! Windows XP, Windows Vista (kind-of) and all of that stuff from this wonderful time!

[@TimurTripp2]

There is a standard mini 6-pin power connector on the logic board in PCIe Power Mac G5s. I have a Radeon X1900 installed in mine and it came with a cable to use it.

[@m4ttr4w3som3]

I love how everything that's supposed to be simple always turns into some crazy long process involving 15 other things to complete to get the original idea done lol

[@Fox420]

lol the way it was edited at 10:00 i believed the Mac had consumed your Halo disc

[@coolboy49531]

can some one tell me, wtf is upn and why is it a thing in the description

[@s8wc3]

+coolboy49531 UPN is an american tv channel, and the description is a joke.

[@Imnotimportant555]

the power plug with that shape means it was more than likely a server

[@SylveonTribe]

+Dami Nooki yeah the PowerMac G5 only has an rack mounted version of itself as an server that Power plug is like that because apple changed the look of it in the late 2005 version and Drugs is using an late 2005 version in this video or as I say The last PowerMac

[@user-di1de7zm2b]

+René Wilming actually, the most powerful power Mac g5 you can get has quad 2.5ghz cpus and an 7800gtx gpu

[@SylveonTribe]

+René Wilming *druaga

[@user-di1de7zm2b]

+Dami Nooki sorry I was wrong, the "quad" has 2 cores 4 threads and the GPu part was kinda wrong, the max GPu that you can put in the g5 is the 7800gtx, it didn't come with it stock

[@AiOinc1]

That's just a standard IEC connector that can carry more current.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Wow that is the ultimate PC, I think the reason that it requires you to insert the game disc is because there is a key on the disc that unlocks the game otherwise it would have been ripped off as soon as it came out.

[@Wiild_The_Fiire]

The best Druaga videos are the longest videos.

[@eliasvanloon]

Is a g5/g3 still good for : KZbin, uploading to KZbin, twitch watching, Facebook, Web browsing, garageband, imovie, Adobe photoshop, document writing, important school documents, and general apps ( don't care if it need a older version of the app), and games from that time?

[@maxwellwatts5723]

i never owned a g5/g3 but i saw a video by the 8bitguy and he says that youtube on the g5 can only handle like 360p and facebook is pretty slow, the rest i dunno

[@marrojas6064]

G3s are very SLOW and very OLD and outdated for this time. The maximum OS that they can run is Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (and not all the G3s can handle it), and it's the same, is very outdated. Although Dual G5s are still good for today, the max OS that they can support is 10.5.9 Leopard, and that is outdated, so i wouldn't recommend it. So you can easily buy a Intel iMac from 2007-2008 that can do easily the same stuff, and with more updated systems. (They can handle to OS X El Capitan)

[@MRSTU1210]

Hey dude great video,quite interesting watching you trouble shoot mac hard ware /software,keep up the good work ,peace.

[@NaviciaAbbot]

Halo PC patch 1.10 exists for Windows and Mac and published by Bungie. It swaps GameSpy out for Bungie's own masterserver.

[@haroldflower8008]

It wouldn't be a Druaga1 video without SOMETHING going wrong

[@nullpointer1284]

This is how i'm able to get through study hall, thank you druaga1 :)

[@jtggaming9306]

I fully believe that you incidents are genuine because whenever I do things like what you do, everything goes wrong

[@tungmeister1234]

not sure if it's possible as I've not looked into it but could you flash the firmware from a G5 Quadro onto the Mac pro card in order to use it? it's possible with other cards so I can't see why you couldn't. Could make an interesting video!

[@idzikmaciek]

You're one of that youtubers that I remember to give a like before watching a video.

[@IanC14]

"I'm going to get my car grandma" 😂

[@Arhentir]

Mac user: I can mount ISO files w/o 3rd party prg ! Win user: [feelsbadman] Linux user : LOL :)

[@JustAK1rb0]

Win user: I can mount isos officially!

[@nonsensicalfox]

Even at the time of this comment, that wasn't true. Native ISO mounting was added in Windows 8

[@Hdogdog7]

I wonder how hl2 would run if it was supported on ppc.

[@cathattan]

33:07 "saving weed" yea, we're gonna need that for later lol

[@mattnm12]

I wonder if the PATA cable popped off the mainboard.....

[@verficationaccount]

When I saw that he forgot to put the fan module back in the beginning I thought "this is not gonna end well". But later I saw that he had done it off camera ;)

[@notawesomebread]

In halo, there's a patch from bungie that lets you do multiplayer without gamespy

[@adam7868]

Yeah it's safe to say gamespy is pretty much dead and won't be coming back

[@joshuanorris5860]

I just had a flashback. Omg i remember gamespy now lol First when he mantioned it i wasent making the connection

[@linksmith1057]

If your hardware isn't functioning, reset your PRAM and SMC (Or whatever it was called in the PPC gen, Open Firmware? I forget). Unplug the computer totally, hold down the power button for ten seconds. Boot up the computer holding Command+Option+P+R, it will sit at the gray screen for a moment and reboot. Optical drive should now work. This is best to do for *any* hardware change in a Mac.

[@bonfirelit37]

"Don't you wish you could take your primary cpu fans out and still have it running" My fucking sides lmao

[@Gamez4eveR]

*more like this* Also, that is a C19 power connector. Carries more current. I think.

[@halodudecool]

even though i dont know anything about building computers i still love your vids

[@Arhentir]

This video sponsored by "Hiren's BOOT CD"

[@yolsclassics6347]

maybe putting in an SSD will fix the cd drive problems ;P

[@Jayme]

I totally want one of those old iMacs! I love the design of them!

[@ozomax1997]

it's not a I'm actually and do NOT get a g5. get a mac pro 1.1 😂😂😂

[@Jayme]

+owen Gerrard there a point where he pulls out an iMac.

[@Rustyrustyspoons]

love your vids mate keep em coming

[@emusaurus6669]

that plug, it fills you with determination

[@zombieslayer1468]

i thing that face connector is 1500 watts and 15 amps although if that is the case then they(apple)could use a regular power cable

[@tanzanite6695]

Love your vids man keeps me entertained, keep up the good work. :3

[@tanzanite6695]

And yes, the undertale reference was very well made :D

[@Natures_Intentions]

That run well those power mac G5 computers are fun systems

[@radostin04wastaken]

how many hiren's boot cd's do you have?

[@radostin04wastaken]

Proboably...

[@mtunayucer]

+radostin04 *probably.

[@chubblemunch]

+radostin04 Probably...

[@burgerindividual]

Probably...

[@pietrekk_k]

combo breaker!!!11

[@tjyoyo3]

Sees new druaga1 video: "time to get the popcorn"

[@tjyoyo3]

***** keemstar is a gnome

[@ifrit05]

I had a feeling from the beginning that that was an EFI firmware card (Mac Pro). Wont work in a OpenFirmware machine. (the G5).

[@carloslemare6060]

What about youtube videos? I can watch 480p videos pretty well in Safari and IceWeasel, but in 720p it becomes laggy and always in the Window, never at full screen (1080p monitor here). The question is, an advanced graphic card will help with this?

[@mercuryoak2]

good vid funny. prob broke the ata wire so could not detect drive?? possibly

[@williamforbes6919]

i'm thinking you tore the wires inside of the ATA cable, derp

[@intelinside5574]

4:20 YOU LEFT THE FANS OUT LOL

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

I think that Quadro needed to be flashed with Mac compatible firmware

[@femindustries163]

but can it run club penguin

[@mtunayucer]

lol

[@beyondbeyond1965]

no

[@pd3331]

Flash player is shit on PPC

[@ratedasmr7811]

Nah. It's gotta run webkinz

[@SheLuvsWild]

Rip club penguin

[@MattExzy]

Crazy to think that one single little G5 chip required all of that freaking metal to cool it. And now the cheapest of cellphones probably have similar if not more processing power. And it cost thousands of dollars. Mid 2000s was a really weird time for computing, before the Intel Core came and blessed everything.

[@SyphistPrime]

+MattExzy The biggest factor for cooling in phones is that it is an ARM CPU, so it runs cooler. For sure tech has changed though. It's amazing how refined things have gotten though in 10 years.

[@MattExzy]

+Syphist Prime Oh yeah, that's what I meant :) ARM and PowerPC are both RISC, but PowerPC didn't scale power-wise anywhere near as much.

[@TimurTripp2]

+MattExzy The G5 was a beast in 2003, but towards the end of its life it became clear the power to performance wasn't great. Combine that with how it wasn't scaling down well for use as a mobile CPU in the PowerBooks meant the switch to Intel and certain doom for PowerPC on Macs. When the quad-core Xeon Mac Pro came out in mid 2006, it was basically twice the performance for less power consumption of the year-earlier DP G5. Unlike the G5, the first-gen Mac Pro with some upgrades is still a usable primary desktop today. Upgrade it to two of the later quad-core Xeons for 8 cores total and it competes very well with modern Macs.

[@Browningate]

It'd probably be fine without those intake fans because it has exhaust fans in the back doing the job.

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

Wrong.

[@Browningate]

Min Nohara's Channel Of Fun Only one way to find out :-).

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

Well, back then Apple products were more or so well built. What I might be pretty sure is that thing DOES really heat up (seems to be a server-like or a heavy work station), intake fans would supply fresh air while the exhaust fans does what they're supposed to do. I have my case set up like that and if I take off or reverse the intake fans the case will turn into a pretty coffee heater.

[@0x1EGEN]

"while the exhaust fans does what they're supposed to do." Very descriptive..

[@Browningate]

Jason Lee Cool story, bro.

[@cadenwoo1958]

The computer did not boot because you didn’t have the plastic air deflector. Stick paper in the three holes at the bottom and it should work fine

[@ScarlettStunningSpace]

What is the full list of games? I could obviously go back and check but that's not the Druaga way.

[@justcama]

5:19 this is why i love Druaga1

[@justcama]

+TEBUnited Also you should have put an Epilepsy Warning 8:58 xD

[@DForce26]

Did you get the quadra fx 4500 yet??? I'd love to see the difference with this :)

[@C4FF31N3]

That is the first time I have ever seen halo 1 even stutter

[@tourmaline7.3]

You need the watercooled version