Hacking a PC Graphics Card into my G4 Cube!

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Action Retro

Action Retro

Күн бұрын

Thanks PCBway.com! OK, I'm really excited about this mod. The G4 Cube is quite famously under-powered, originally coming with either a 400mhz or 500mhz G4 and a really lame Rage 128 Pro graphics card. Since we've already maxed ours out with a 1.2 GHz G4 and an SSD, really the only thing left is to put a killer graphics card in.
The only problem is, there aren't a lot of great options that fit in the Cube.
So today, we're going to be hacking a super-fast GeForce 6200 graphics card that only ever came out for PC, to try and get 256 megs of graphics goodness into our Cube.
H/T to Dana Does Stuff who inspired me to try this: / londoshair
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Want to do this to your Cube? Over the years, resources online have slowly died off, leaving a mess of broken links and hard-to-find info. Here's a few good links to get you started:
💾 Modified ROM files for the XFX 6200 (under the "Modified NVIDIA PPC ROMs" heading): themacelite.wik...
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@RhodderzX
@RhodderzX 3 жыл бұрын
+1 for Druaga reference.
@FireStriker_
@FireStriker_ 3 жыл бұрын
Hello smokers
@CantankerousDave
@CantankerousDave 3 жыл бұрын
“We’re gonna have to Druaga the shit outta this.”
@victorfigueroa9385
@victorfigueroa9385 3 жыл бұрын
hell yea
@WantBadtime
@WantBadtime 3 жыл бұрын
“Hey smokers, Druaga1 here, and today!...”
@crackzonemobile2264
@crackzonemobile2264 3 жыл бұрын
The "+1" reminds me of Google+
@markinius8866
@markinius8866 3 жыл бұрын
Nice druaga1 reference there, but still lacking some smoke
@ВалерияРоманова-ю1м
@ВалерияРоманова-ю1м 3 жыл бұрын
And SSD
@ВалерияРоманова-ю1м
@ВалерияРоманова-ю1м 3 жыл бұрын
@Bob Ross i am impressed by your visual skills, still wish it was a fattydove one! have a great day, bob ross, my hero!
@m4ttii_
@m4ttii_ 3 жыл бұрын
hey bob ross i've seen you in a different video, i think a MattKC one?
@abhay17381
@abhay17381 3 жыл бұрын
I've never owned a Mac and I probably never will but this channel somehow draws me into watching weird Mac related videos,that are somehow super interesting to me . It's like a weird Action Retro drug!
@CotyRiddle
@CotyRiddle 3 жыл бұрын
mac's from the past were actually impressive little machines and you could* upgrade most of them unlike macs of modern day with soldered ram emmc and stupid shit like that.
@FS--ew3se
@FS--ew3se 3 жыл бұрын
I've never owned a mac also but I want to hackintosh a trash picked pc just to see how well mac os is holding up
@TuNnL
@TuNnL Жыл бұрын
I did own a MacBook Pro, but it died on me just before the pandemic, and I don't believe I'll have the money to replace it anytime soon. I am shocked at how cheap used Mac desktops can purchased online, which is why Sean's channel particularly interests me. The real debate for me is whether or not Mac OS Snow Leopard or Sorbet Leopard will run Final Cut Pro 7, Apple's flagship software product, and the reason I purchased a Mac in the first place. I have not found a channel that adequately answers that question yet. 💁🏻‍♂️
@puwazatza
@puwazatza Жыл бұрын
that's the magic of his hand gestures
@cossasomi
@cossasomi 3 жыл бұрын
On any AGP machine with chipset-integrated graphics, the integrated VGA is also wired through AGP. An external AGP card (even if flashed with non-PC VBIOS) _will_ disable the integrated card. Having integrated and dedicated graphics running at the same time is only possible if at least one of those is PCI. This limitation was gone with the arrival PCI-Express.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@CotyRiddle
@CotyRiddle 3 жыл бұрын
yet some manafactures (acer for example) will still disable integrated graphics if a PCI Express gpu is used. (which is a bummer for me becasue intel quicksync is pretty nice and it would be nice to offload some things to a different processor other than the main gpu
@cossasomi
@cossasomi 3 жыл бұрын
@@CotyRiddle Oh yes, I was talking about pure hardware limitations. OEMs doing nonsensical things it's another kettle of fish, especially Acer. I once had a motherboard of theirs based on a SiS630 chipset (socket 370 and onboard graphics with no AGP slot). While build quality was very nice, its stupid BIOS decided that if I install 256MB of RAM (or more), then 128MB of it MUST be set aside as shared video memory with no way of changing it. For a chip that was at best at Rage Pro levels of performance.
@CotyRiddle
@CotyRiddle 3 жыл бұрын
@@cossasomi seen that plenty of times. the integrated shitt never had the power to utilize anything more than 32 mb at best.
@RetroBerner
@RetroBerner 3 жыл бұрын
You should get a busted cube and put modern SFF hardware in it
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome idea
@MLGPRO-dx8fg
@MLGPRO-dx8fg 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, take the guts out of a Intel nuc or something and built it into this, maybe with extra hard drives or something since there will be extra storage
@dregenius
@dregenius 3 жыл бұрын
@@ActionRetro put an M1 mac mini inside! Sure, the mini's guts would be hilariously easy to "fit", but there's just something poetic about leaving the G4 cube a RISC machine... except now it'll be the same RISC machine that's putting Intel into chapter 11. 😉
@XxmatixX6videosdiariosdenadav
@XxmatixX6videosdiariosdenadav 3 жыл бұрын
@@dregenius if you think that losing apple will make intel bankrupt then you have no idea what intel even does
@Michael-Archonaeus
@Michael-Archonaeus 2 жыл бұрын
@@dregenius The new Mac Studio would be even better!
@MrVitalic85
@MrVitalic85 3 жыл бұрын
In my shenanigan of converting pc card to ppc, ati flash and nv flash gave me so much headache that I learned to unsolder the eeprom and reprogram it with a cheap programmer. Much more easy and you can correct mistake afterward. I made a couple cards that way.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
That's amazing!
@radcheckinski6300
@radcheckinski6300 3 жыл бұрын
How did they give you trouble? I've been flashing cards since 2005... its literally bulletproof.
@JessicaFEREM
@JessicaFEREM 3 жыл бұрын
Alternative Title: Shoving a WANG into a G4 cube
@mediocrefunkybeat
@mediocrefunkybeat 3 жыл бұрын
That's going to be sore in the morning.
@detenatron.3608
@detenatron.3608 3 жыл бұрын
The fans intensifies
@braytonak
@braytonak 3 жыл бұрын
While I miss seeing our fellow geek as presenting, I do approve of the hiring of Thing from Addams Family.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@SalvoDan
@SalvoDan 3 жыл бұрын
If you had a spare AGP riser, you could disable pins 3 and 11 on that, rather to on card.
@summer_xo
@summer_xo 3 жыл бұрын
Glad I found this channel. Lots of Windows "hacking"/restoration content on YT, LGR etc, which I love (probably my fave channel), but im very glad theres some great Apple content as well. Grew up on a Mac so its great to see them preserved and given the spotlight.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man!
@PicksterTG
@PicksterTG 3 жыл бұрын
The Rage 128. Wow. That's a blast from the past. My parents got a Pentium 2 back in 97/98 which had a Rage Pro (4mb) and the Rage 128 can be traced back to that card. It's just a bit bumped up. A little late on I got a PC with an All in Wonder Rage 128m. So that has TV tuner, video in etc which would have been around 2000/2001. It's also funny to me that what was the bargain bin version of the 6000 series is a maxed out upgrade for the cube. I actually have the guts of an old PC I want to get up and running. I managed to pick up a motherboard that supports both AGP 1&2 and also AGP 4. Most later AGP slots don't support the older AGP standard, and older boards with the old standard wont support newer AGP 4 or AGP 8 cards... I'm sure that's super interesting to everyone reading... The long and short of that is I can use my old Voodoo 3 in that system but also swap it out for a X800XT should the game require more grunt. Great video. I hope you enjoy the new upgrade. Giving these old pieces of tech new life is a great past time.
@theforerunnerreclaimer
@theforerunnerreclaimer 3 жыл бұрын
His channel inspired me to actually 3D print one and I got a raspberry Pi to boot straight into Mac OS X Tiger (I did what he did on the Mini G3 tower video) It's nice is pretty cheap to make, and doesn't have the drawbacks of old PCs. (it has 2 mini HDMI ports for up to dual 4k 60 monitors, USB 3.0 and 2.0, SD and can be attached to SATA, etc)
@couldntmixapotnoodle
@couldntmixapotnoodle 3 жыл бұрын
The cube looks cooler without the case on. And that bracket for the back of the card you need can probably be found on ebay or among other mac enthusiasts.
@CotyRiddle
@CotyRiddle 3 жыл бұрын
sheet metal :D
@5thaltaccount547
@5thaltaccount547 3 жыл бұрын
If you install ImpossibleCat (aka the beta snow leopard that people have been using on their PPC Macs), full hardware acceleration and quartz extreme/core image will be supported, since Apple continued supporting them for awhile. Someone with a G5 with I believe a GeForce 6200 was able to confirm working QE/CI.
@MrVitalic85
@MrVitalic85 3 жыл бұрын
Do you know if a ati 9600 mac edition ( the one with ppc + pc bios) would work ? Its a passive card that dont generate a lot of heat. Anyway, thats a nice upgrade to your G4 cube.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
I think technically it would work, but it doesn't fit - if I'm remembering what I read on forums.
@thewallduck2022
@thewallduck2022 3 жыл бұрын
Use with a riser maybe? It would be janky and hang out of the cube but it should technically work
@charlesjmouse
@charlesjmouse 3 жыл бұрын
2:22 Apple - "Screwing with established hardware standards since 1976". 11:40 Yep, NVFLASH is an absolute pain... especially if you're flashing 'blind'. 18:40 Very bad luck!
@gira93
@gira93 3 жыл бұрын
I've done that ages ago to install MorphOS on a Powermac G4 quicksilver; it had a rage 128 (which was incompatible) and i've flashed and installed an Ati 9200 Pro, same steps as the video, including the tape! Strangely it worked on first try :)
@notanimposter
@notanimposter 3 жыл бұрын
"almost typed ls" me every time I use a Windows machine
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
🤣
@alexdhall
@alexdhall 3 жыл бұрын
Ditto....though if you use a powershell prompt, ls works I believe...,🤔
@ThePsychoticWombat
@ThePsychoticWombat 3 жыл бұрын
@@alexdhall it's a pre-configured alias in powers he'll, yes
@ThePsychoticWombat
@ThePsychoticWombat 3 жыл бұрын
Linux user here, I always type ls by mistake on windows machines
@eDoc2020
@eDoc2020 3 жыл бұрын
I have MinGW and MSYS installed so typing ls works for me on Windows. Somehow I don't seem to make that mistake, though.
@GeFeldz
@GeFeldz 3 жыл бұрын
The GeForce 6200 AGP, A.K.A. the "Hey, we've actually put an actual discrete graphics card into this crappy prebuilt pc, i'll have you actually know!" GPU of 2004 and 2005. Alternatively; The GeForce 6200 AGP, A.K.A. the "Hey, this motherboard and CPU combo doesn't have integrated video, so here's a card to make your monitor light up and do stuff!" GPU of 2005 and 2006.
@Storm_.
@Storm_. 3 жыл бұрын
Trust me, you're gonna need a heatsink and fan. First thing you will notice is sparkles on game textures which progressively get worse. Then crashes.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
I did put a fan in the bottom of the cube previously, which does blow across the card. I think I'm going to try and fit a more powerful one in there though
@axi0matic
@axi0matic 3 жыл бұрын
@@ActionRetro The base fan blows up the centre of the Cube - 0% of the airflow goes over the graphics card. It’ll cool the CPU, which will reduce temps generally in the Cube, but that’s it. Get a Titan CUV3 for the GPU. Does your Cube wake from sleep with the 6200 fitted?
@axi0matic
@axi0matic 3 жыл бұрын
@Robert F I ask because it didn't for me. The Cube would wake up (fan, HDD etc.) but the screen stayed black. The Cube was only a hobby machine, not a Mac I'd use for anything serious, but this left it feeling unrefined / unfinished. I wound up fitting the similar FX5200 256MB (flashed PC version), which worked fine and is slightly faster for games (128-bit vs 64-bit VRAM). Though eventually replaced it anyway with a Radeon 7500, which had a bunch of advantages for me.
@resonancerim
@resonancerim 3 жыл бұрын
Isn't the card detected as 6200 (8:10) but the rom is for 6600 (10:29)?
@sjanssen
@sjanssen 3 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the same! Rom seems to differ (or he flashed a 6200 rom onto a 6800 card)
@Dullahan_1
@Dullahan_1 3 жыл бұрын
flashing a 6200 bios into a 6800 maybe be the trick for keep the temps down , don't know how that would work since the 6200 and 6800 have different chips on them
@jonathanschober1032
@jonathanschober1032 3 жыл бұрын
Wow this is druga1 with a budget. $18 GPU and $20 computer. Calm down
@rustyshakelford2
@rustyshakelford2 3 жыл бұрын
Cool project! I'd be interested to see if the cube can still boot into OS9 with this card installed.
@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs
@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Sean I Have Also The Geforce 6200 256MB NVIDIA Card In My G4 Cube Graphics are fantastic . I Modded The The Original back plate from the 128 rage card with a drim tool looks great I'm using the VGA port for now
@seanwieland9763
@seanwieland9763 3 жыл бұрын
Back in the day I had to use clear nail polish to do something similar - the PC version of a video card was half the cost of the Mac version to upgrade a G4 tower, as long as specific pins were disabled and the ROM flashed.
@charlesdorval394
@charlesdorval394 3 жыл бұрын
For the bracket part, I'd say check if you could just cut up the bracket that came with the card and drill 2 mounting hole in the bracket so it fits the 2 original mounting holes in the cube
@grantfaber
@grantfaber 3 жыл бұрын
At 17:55 and placing my bet: Based on your famous trial & error methodology, I eagerly expect that it won't fire up on the first try! No major damage; possibly the Scotch tape will need to be adjusted. Hope it works, but if it doesn't, I'll still be entertained. I enjoy watching you kludge your way to victory, since I usually find myself fumbling around in the same way.
@kylejones8392
@kylejones8392 3 жыл бұрын
For the bracket I would flatten out the long standard one, mark it where the case holes are, drill it, and then use some short bolts and nuts to hold it in place.
@InMediasRes_vo
@InMediasRes_vo 3 жыл бұрын
bend, drill, and dremel the slot cover you pulled off that one PC. that's how a former co-worker did it when he upgraded his own cube.
@radcheckinski6300
@radcheckinski6300 3 жыл бұрын
I used to put electrical tape over pin 3 and 11 on the agp connector of the card. This way all my cards were fully revertible. Electrical tape works very well because its very sticky, so it stays on and doesn't slide off. Personally, that is the best method. I bought a MDD tower recently and a 7800gs. Going to tape mod it instead. Also, electrical tape isn't see-through, so you can easily cut two little rectangle strips, stick them on and done.
@parintelebaiazid80
@parintelebaiazid80 3 жыл бұрын
23:36 Anybody else can hear the in-game music just by seeing the ID Software Logo?
@MacintoshMen
@MacintoshMen 3 жыл бұрын
Wow that's an awsome upgrade you did. Might be the world's fastest G4 cube you got there. That upgraded VRM board really payed off for you
@macnerd93
@macnerd93 3 жыл бұрын
really looking forward to installing a Radeon 7500 into mine. I had one laying around inside an old Quicksilver machine, just need to adapt the I/O Bracket and its a straight fit inside
@willm5032
@willm5032 3 жыл бұрын
Flashing GPUs is a lot easier when you have a spare windows machine. I had to flash an nVidea card for my mac pro and I ended up having to create a Linux USB then use the wifi network to do it remotely from my laptop and load NVFlash on THAT... was some matrix shit
@michaeltaylor184
@michaeltaylor184 3 жыл бұрын
We’re going to have to druaga1 this thing lol
@xero110
@xero110 3 жыл бұрын
Just a tip for cutting the pins as you did. Nail polish works great and is easy to remove if you ever need to.
@TheHouseOfMoth
@TheHouseOfMoth 3 жыл бұрын
*pauses video* There is a 99% chance the card will work but in doing so will burn out every LED in there!! *resumes video* Damn the LED’s still work
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@littledudejoey
@littledudejoey 3 жыл бұрын
loved the Druaga reference!
@eg1885
@eg1885 3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Try using backup.rom from the good card to reflash the bad card to possibly get it working.
@mightydeku
@mightydeku 3 жыл бұрын
I remember flashing a voodoo 3 3000 PCI for my umax back when 3dfx released a Mac firmware for their cards.
@marc6340
@marc6340 3 жыл бұрын
I am really going to have to try this! My poor cubes have been just sitting on the shelf all this time!
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Yes do it!
@KiraSlith
@KiraSlith 3 жыл бұрын
You can really easily 3D print one, you just have to keep the build plate temperature very consistent and pull the part as soon as the print finishes, since thin parts curl easily.
@stevemorris3924
@stevemorris3924 3 жыл бұрын
Simple fix on the dell, it won't boot without a CPU fan that's all
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Oh dang thanks!
@squeeeb
@squeeeb 3 жыл бұрын
Nice upgrade!
@plasmar1
@plasmar1 3 жыл бұрын
you can get away with using a sharpie:)... if you google dell perc 5i I think it was; a dell server sata/sas controller, they used one of the pins for some proprietary dell thing, so on a lot of non dell systems back in the day it was required to not use the one pin or the system wouldn't boot **source: tried it myself and random websites
@raikiri23
@raikiri23 3 жыл бұрын
My friend, please, I am BEGGING you. Turn down the gain or move back from your mic. Your mouth sounds are very... moist
@CoolDudeClem
@CoolDudeClem 3 жыл бұрын
I still remember when 256 MB of graphics RAM was a big deal, now in my computer I've got a card with 6GB!
@EvilTurkeySlices
@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын
My main PC has 11GB.
@luqasxXX
@luqasxXX 3 жыл бұрын
The rom upload didn't work because the file name was too long. Dos can handle only 8 character file name set, and abbreviates everything with suffix ~1. That causes that the directory does handles ~1 file name lookups/requests. If you would shorten (rename) the file from cube_n~1.bin to just cube.bin the firmware upload would be successful. Hope I helped :)
@AtomicGoober
@AtomicGoober 3 жыл бұрын
Hey, I reworked someone else's G4 Cube GPU bracket to hopefully work with your card configuration. I posted the design on Thingiverse /thing:4659096. The original design is by Dietervdf, at /thing:1665153. Also, if you don't have access to a 3D printer, or can't print locally. I can totally print the part out of high-temp resin and send it out to you at the cost of shipping.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Holy crap thank you! I'd be happy to pay for shipping! Could you email me? actionretro@protonmail.com
@AtomicGoober
@AtomicGoober 3 жыл бұрын
@@ActionRetro Email sent. 👍
@xaer0knight
@xaer0knight 3 жыл бұрын
if you need a frankenputer, you can't go wrong with a Druaga1 referance.
@ryderrepairs
@ryderrepairs 3 жыл бұрын
You need to do a 10 k subscriber special
@staso28
@staso28 3 жыл бұрын
Another great video. Love this PowerPC content ;) Thanks.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ivan!
@velocity211
@velocity211 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome work getting the 6800 to work with the cube. I bought an old P4 pc to perform the flashing process, but once installed in the cube, bunch of artifacts showed up. Must have been a bad GPU.
@philippbuschmann4125
@philippbuschmann4125 3 жыл бұрын
Very amazing ... keep going with more mods
@WalnutSpice
@WalnutSpice 3 жыл бұрын
Why this Cube remind me of the old South Park episode with Cartman running around yelling "Beef Cake"? lmao
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@bryandrobny7690
@bryandrobny7690 3 жыл бұрын
Arnold Schwarzencube going to Pump you up! Get to the Chopa!
@stevef6392
@stevef6392 3 жыл бұрын
18:00: Yep, 100% it'll work first try. I performed a similar Power Mac video card upgrade a few years ago. In my case I stuffed a GeForce 7800GS AGP card in a G4 MDD, running an even older version of OS X: 10.4.11. It fired right up and even had a driver ready to go. I don't think any Mac ever shipped with an AGP 7800GS, so the fact that freakin' Tiger actually had a built in driver just amazed the hell out of me. Edit: And...I was wrong. But hey, not much you can do about a bad video card. Edit 2: Huzzah!!
@goclunker
@goclunker 2 жыл бұрын
It had a driver thanks to the g5s😉
@piterb.5444
@piterb.5444 3 жыл бұрын
Just cut off the L side of the original bracket and then make the new holes for the Cube screws.
@JessicaFEREM
@JessicaFEREM 3 жыл бұрын
5:09 tfw the whole pc costs as much as the GPU
@PhilXavierSierraJones
@PhilXavierSierraJones 3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the white slots on the Dell mobo for PCI cards, not AGP?
@TheAtariSan
@TheAtariSan 3 жыл бұрын
I would had suggest woman clear nail polish without that blue powder inside (that they put in aquarium) for isolating the conductutivity of the pin.
@NickBouwhuis
@NickBouwhuis 3 жыл бұрын
Your "weird pc" at 18:43 is exactly the model (or at least case) of computers we had at elementary school. This is the first time I've seen them since then.
@nena_nezali
@nena_nezali 3 жыл бұрын
Hell of a cube mate. Hell of a cube
@JessicaFEREM
@JessicaFEREM 3 жыл бұрын
the only thing you need now for the true druaga pc build is a cardboard tray
@SudosFTW
@SudosFTW 3 жыл бұрын
8200 has a nonstandard pinout for the ATX connector. Used the same pinout as the early P4 Dells and the GX110. The 6200 should still get a heatsink with a fan, the 80mm slim fan won't be able to keep it cool for long. You should also consider doing a thermal compound job on the card, since it's going to be ancient at this point.
@SteelSkin667
@SteelSkin667 3 жыл бұрын
That's weird, all of these ROMs seem to be expecting a GeForce 6660 card. Does that mean that someone somewhere managed to cram an underclocked 6600 in a cube? These were scorching fast compared to the 6200.
@goclunker
@goclunker 2 жыл бұрын
No. It was a hacked 5200fx rom
@SuperNicktendo
@SuperNicktendo 3 жыл бұрын
oh nice - I got a cube a while back and it would be really nice to crank this up to 11. Was debating on dual booting Amiga stuff as well.
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Oh that would be awesome!
@jonathan21022
@jonathan21022 3 жыл бұрын
For future reference a lot of premade pc's have a none standard pinout for the power supply. So by plugging in a universal power supply you may have burnt out that board or just stopped it from booting.
@EvilTurkeySlices
@EvilTurkeySlices 2 жыл бұрын
Those old dells don’t, they use standard ATX. There’s really only a few where it’s not obvious that it’s non standard. Most prebuilts that use non standard hardware use custom connectors that are physically different from ATX. Dell did use a different pin out ATX connector, but much later.
@bnard6299
@bnard6299 3 жыл бұрын
I might be able to throw you together a 3D printable design (or even print it for you) if you send some dimensions
@radcheckinski6300
@radcheckinski6300 3 жыл бұрын
I've been doing this since 2005 when running powermac g4s as fulltime drivers. You didn't ruin the card, it was probably bricked. Never had that happen. With a wrong rom it wouldn't boot, but it was always revertible.
@williamrogers5367
@williamrogers5367 3 жыл бұрын
You do love that cube ❤️
@lozahe
@lozahe 3 жыл бұрын
I’ll have to look at mine to see what video card I used to upgrade my Cube. Had to use a Dremel to make the video card slot larger. 😬
@supercrazymario404
@supercrazymario404 3 жыл бұрын
Could you put a 7800 GS in one of these? It’s the best AGP card that can be flashed for Macs and it’s pretty good
@greebo7857
@greebo7857 3 жыл бұрын
Jeez, how about a trigger warning for DOS? I had a flashback like a bad acid trip....
@MaliciousAlfa
@MaliciousAlfa 3 жыл бұрын
Love the Return To Castle Wolfenstein test One of my favorite retro games To get an FPS counter open up the console whilst in the main menu of the game and type "/cg_drawfps 1" You should now see an FPS counter in the top right of the screen when you are in a level To lock the FPS type "/seta com_maxfps XXX" (where XXX being the number you want) Hopefully this helps
@chasewilliams3949
@chasewilliams3949 3 жыл бұрын
What I would do for a bracket, is to take the original GPU backplate, and just snip off or bend back the part that would screw into the case, and maybe drill holes in it so that it can properly mount to the screw holes already in the cube.
@masterofdisguise101
@masterofdisguise101 3 жыл бұрын
Hi, Michael MJD @MichaelMJD has done a video on this
@bramvandenbroeck5060
@bramvandenbroeck5060 3 жыл бұрын
You could actually take the bracked that came with the broken card, cut the lil lip on the bottom, and cut the L shaped lip from the top off, make it round shaped like the accomodation of the cube, and than with those standoffs you screw normally on either side of the connectors, you could use only 2. If you have the cube lying on its side like on 17:30 you screw the left one from the dvi in and the right one of the vga one, and you could than try to put some strong double tape on the left side of the vga and the right side of the dvi (or if you want it to be permanent, you could just superglue them to the bracket, make sure to sand down the inside of where the glue goes so it has something to grip on to), and it should be strong and sturdy, just don't jam a vga cable on there, but be nice and gentle when you plug it in and it should last for a very long time.
@tobiwonkanogy2975
@tobiwonkanogy2975 3 жыл бұрын
could you unplug the vga cable temporarily from the graphics card put the connector on the outside and then plug the vga cable back in ? maybe even being able to screw it in from outside for support.
@ryderrepairs
@ryderrepairs 3 жыл бұрын
I just bought that same dell moniter!, in fact i watched this video on it!
@amdintelxsniperx
@amdintelxsniperx Жыл бұрын
update . there is a half hight 6600 floating around that will work in this . its just an unlocked 6200 but it also has 512mb ram
@ThePsychoticWombat
@ThePsychoticWombat 3 жыл бұрын
I would love to see some more gaming/performance tests. I had one of these and a similar upgrade path planned, but could finish due to not having the time or space for it
@diegoknyte
@diegoknyte 8 ай бұрын
Idda cut the traces higher up on the card. I would’t want some scotch tape wedged in my AGP port. To each their own
@hi-friaudioman
@hi-friaudioman 3 жыл бұрын
The easier way to blank those pins is with nail polish. You're welcome. ;-)
@bitelaserkhalif
@bitelaserkhalif 3 жыл бұрын
The box art looks like bowser lol
@uptimefpv
@uptimefpv 3 жыл бұрын
I would take the original bracket, flatten it, and drill holes in the top and bottom of the bracket so that it could screw into the G4 case.
@tekvax01
@tekvax01 3 жыл бұрын
(14:31) Use Kapton tape... not scotch tape...
@LaskyLabs
@LaskyLabs 3 жыл бұрын
I'm going to have fun tonight with the Wang card!
@ActionRetro
@ActionRetro 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome good luck!
@BrianMartin2007
@BrianMartin2007 3 жыл бұрын
But your rom said 6600, not 6200.....
@frice2000
@frice2000 3 жыл бұрын
Really could've made this video a little snapper by cutting out some of the problems with DOS and initial flashing ROM problems. Showing some of that is fine but you went a bit over the top.
@aviumcaravan
@aviumcaravan 2 жыл бұрын
AGP cards on their way to fry themselves for no apparent reason
@thelastNokiauser
@thelastNokiauser 3 жыл бұрын
Hands hands hands hands hands hands 🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐🖐
@hectororestes2752
@hectororestes2752 3 жыл бұрын
just shape the original bracket from the 6200 with a dremel to match the original GPU. That would secure it safely.
@BBHexKey
@BBHexKey 3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't that card have an 8 pin SPI chip? I'd recommend getting on eBay and buying yourself a ch341a chip programmer. Really handy tool for flashing bios chips outside of the computer, and it works on a raspberry pi (or other Linux distributions) with flashrom.
@STAR-fn1pi
@STAR-fn1pi 3 жыл бұрын
that was extremely complicated, like trying to kill a dragon with a needle :/ i love it good job :p
@EdgyShooter
@EdgyShooter 3 жыл бұрын
Liked simply for that expression 😅
@FoxyAnimater
@FoxyAnimater 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder how well a modern game, like Portal 2 will run on it... or maybe if you don't have faith in P2, maybe Legacy Portal?
@Epicgamer_Mac
@Epicgamer_Mac 9 ай бұрын
I think it’s gon’ work. 90% chance 1st try, as is. EDIT: nope sorry dingus, ur wrong the card was broken 😢 😭 🙄 🤬 but fortunately Sean has another one 😃 👏 🤭 😂
@MUPPETAU
@MUPPETAU Ай бұрын
The adapter is the deal breaker.
@gokhansarioz7150
@gokhansarioz7150 2 жыл бұрын
That AGP2x slot is really taking down the real power of G6200 but still big achieve this is, and sir your videos making me want a G4Cube please don't do more :)
@takuminightcore1886
@takuminightcore1886 3 жыл бұрын
I really do wish you would perform a beast Power Mac G5 with the quad with the best graphics card and everything
I put RGB in my G4 Cube and I have no regrets.
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