Installing a RARE 1 GHz G4 upgrade into a 266 MHz Beige G3 Macintosh - The Beige Beast, Part 4!

[@nucflashevent]

Apologies if it's already been stated, but one of the coolest things is the SSD being clocked at 133MB transfer, that is **literally** the total speed of the entire PCI bus, so you can truly be said to be getting absolutely, positively, 100% of the data movement capacity (speaking of just moving files from "a" to "z", etc.) that computer has or will ever have to offer 👍

[@Kennephone]

I thought I saw 64 bit pci in there

[@HrutkayMods]

I would recommend finding an official Mac version Radeon 7000 or 9200 for Tiger it would run a lot smoother... Make sure it’s an official one... Flashed versions do not have old boot rom support

[@ActionRetro]

Oh yeah, I actually just picked up a 9200 Mac edition the other day. I'm really interested to see just how big of a difference it makes

[@sixteenbitify]

Action Retro I’m looking forward to see if your Radeon 9200 runs well on your Beige G3. My Beige G3 hates my 9200 128mb VRAM and would crash all the time and I had to downgrade it to the Rage 128. I have an official Radeon 7000 coming overseas so I’m hoping it runs good on that one.

[@MistahMatzah]

Flashed versions with cut-down roms don't have old world boot support, but if you desolder the flash chip and replace it with a new one big enough to write the entire rom it works perfectly.

[@ActionRetro]

@@sixteenbitify Oh interesting! I'm really hoping it works well

[@MacintoshMen]

That was the coolest upgrading series I have seen in a long time! Well done!

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you!!

[@brokenelectronics3665]

Wow, that is amazing! I have always coveted one of the Sonnet upgrade cards, if only because that purple heatsink look so cool!

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks! I've always really wanted one, and it's so cool to have and use now.

[@BlackSkorpionLP]

You are going to grow very quickly, trust me friend, thought through videos with great quality. Like it!

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks, I really appreciate that!

[@Ben333bacc]

I'm loving your content, but I feel like that CPU card is DOOMED without a fan on it. Put that lil noctua directly blowing on the CPU. Beside it, blowing across the fins... I understand there's no room on top. Just don't want to see a cool piece of old enthusiast tech die.

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks! Yeah I was really worried about that too. The Sonnet instructions specifically say that the case fan is enough to cool the CPU because it's actually directly over the heatsink, like a half inch above it. That's why I added that Noctua though, and I'm thinking of adding another Noctua behind the processor to help vent out heat.

[@wishusknight3009]

I doubt that processor gets much above body temperature.

[@greggv8]

@@ActionRetro build a duct to blow air down under the upper tray

[@badwolf1984]

I might suggest if you can fit a larger Noctua fan on the side of the case and dremmel out as much as you can without making it look ugly.

[@szilardbartalos500]

@@ActionRetro try to add a notebook style cooler

[@rwdplz1]

18:15 I upgraded a G4 Server tower similarly around 2008, and stopped using it regularly when KZbin videos couldn't play smoothly anymore. Always wanted one of those Sonnet cards, too.

[@scottharris7222]

Excellent video... nice to see your passion project fully realized. Thanks for posting this for the rest of the world to enjoy. Greetings from Canada.

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks Scott!

[@seshpenguin]

Just finished watching this series... and dude your videos are awesome! Really well put together and super satisfying to watch. I think I'm going to binge watch the rest of your videos...

[@ActionRetro]

Haha thank you so much, it really feels good to hear that man!

[@christophernelson175]

Not sure if this helps at all, but the upper case behind that second drive bay (the one next to the floppy) is actually drilled specifically to accept a cooling fan as well. I did exactly this kind of building/experimenting back in 03/04 in college, and when I was experimenting with overclocking, I found that adding that fan did make a small difference in CPU temp. I can't remember which direction I mounted it though, so you'd have to try both ways. Hope that helps. (Also, these upgrade cards were still available new back then and I can remember having to sit on my hands so as not to blow my food budget for a whole semester and then some on an upgrade card for a tinkering machine that wasn't even my primary. Good times.)

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks!

[@erichilgart2865]

Oh god used to do this in the early 2000s in junior high and high school. Gotta find an OF bootable DVD burner now for it, and run Handbrake to rip a DVD. (I sold them as DVD archiving machines for a pretty penny) - maybe a game of Sims and Sim City 3000 and Sim City 4 for good measure. Starcraft because why not. Would be cool to see performance of those games on this also!

[@keithwhisman]

The extra fan where you have it mounted is ok but would be better if you could just tape it down near the HS so it blows directly across the HS.

[@laurensnieuwland4657]

Ya know, if you get leopard running on in, you can use tenfivetube for youtube. It works great on my 1ghz g4 titanium!

[@ActionRetro]

Oh yeah Leopard is next on my list! I love TenFiveTube - it even works on my 867 TiBook!

[@dickkickemthereckoning7425]

On tiger you can use smtube. It runs nice even on my ibook g4

[@CanadianComputerCollector]

Love it. Your channel is so full of well-done videos with awesome hardware. You deserve FAR more subs than you have right now!

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks man that really means a lot! Love your videos by the way.

[@foodandart5808]

Nice! Just got my SSD and adapter for my own frankenbeige G4 1.0 Sonnett system. (I'm one of those insane people that paid 700 bucks for it long ago.) Will be on it this upcoming new first week of 2022. TBH, you CAN fit the Sonnett card with it's fans, if you clip off the cage that's under the fan. If you do that, there's about a quarter inch of space once you drop down the internal shelf. The ATA cables to the drives is the biggest cluster-making crazy issue. I used mine to play back SD avi files to our old 27 inch CRT TV, using the old MPlayerOSX. The bottleneck will ALWAYS be that 67 Mhz bus. Went from that to a MacPro1,1 in 2007 - what a leap it was!

[@jeremytravis360]

I have just been watching the past 3 episodes of upgrading a G3. I went through similar route upgrading old computers. Eventually I gave up because most of my vintage computers would not work on youtube. Something to do with flash I believe, so I gave up on them. Thanks for showing them.

[@zenmaster24]

all that work done on the inside of the pc, adding all these upgrades and you dont blow out the dust?!?

[@yafilmDOTcom]

11:11 - wait, you could have a 1 GHz Power PC G4 processor without a fan mounted on top of the heatsink and it wouldn't overheat? Try doing that with a 1 GHz AMD Duron/Athlon processor (also from a comparable time where the PowerPC was still in use) and you would get a fried processor like in 20 seconds after posting.

[@3rdalbum]

I suspect the processor might be throttling down due to lack of cooling. The Geekbench results were the same as an iBook?

[@GGigabiteM]

A 1 GHz PowerPC G4 draws substantially less power than a 1 GHz Athlon. The G4 uses 15-17W, while the Slot A Athlon uses 65W and the Socket A uses 54W. Not all CPU architectures draw the same amount of power at the same clock speeds. The purple heatsink on the Sonnet CPU module has enough mass to run for several minutes without overheating with no fan cooling. I have the 733 MHz version of this upgrade and it has no fans at all, instead relying on the power supply fan for cooling, it gets warm but not hot when the case it closed. It does need a fan if you leave the case open.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@GGigabiteM RISC’s low power consumption is the best

[@angieandretti]

I watched this whole series (very cool upgrades btw) but it honestly drove me crazy seeing you not CLEAN the inside of that machine! I mean you put so much love and attention into it whereas the very first thing I would have done would be to at least go over the insides with a can of compressed air to get rid of all that loose case dust, if not a more thorough cleaning. I also agree that your sweet 1GHz CPU needs some direct active cooling - even if you have to get creative with a side-mounted solution blowing air across the top of the fins. Something.

[@lepidotos]

Your beige G3 is way faster than my iMac G5 running Void and I'm a bit jealous.

[@Flashy7]

oh God, next time you will break the plastic tab from the CPU socket... Don't just force the clamp outwards, the upper hole is for putting a flat screwdriver in vertically, push down the clamp first and then out. (or you can push it down with one finger and open it out with the screwdriver) Take care, those plastic bits sometimes do break and then you will have to mute the audio for protecting younger audience :D

[@GGigabiteM]

The Sonnet G4 looks like a good upgrade at first glance, but it's really a dud. It basically cripples a 133 MHz FSB G4 on to a 66 MHz bus in the case of the Beige G3, or due to a bug on the B&W G3's chipset, also 66 MHz. I have a Sonnet Encore 733 for my B&W G3, and while it does provide a speed boost in raw processing speed, it slows everything else down due to the 66 MHz bus. There were other companies that made G3 upgrades using faster G3 chips, up to 1.1 GHz, which were faster all around than the Sonnet G4 upgrades. The only reason to go with a G4 is if you have applications that take advantage of the Altivec unit, which were few and far between. Otherwise, going with a faster G3 that ran at a normal 100 MHz FSB was the better choice. When comparing my upgraded G3 to my real G4 733 DA with a 133 MHz FSB, the real deal is quite a bit faster due to the doubled FSB speed.

[@andycraig7734]

I'd say it might have been a good product for someone who has upgrades already installed into their beige G3 and didn't have the $$$ for a nicer system at the time, but Sonnet's price on this CPU upgrade takes a lot of the appeal away in that scenario.

[@christianclark1354]

I wonder if you can get a PCI GPU that supports hardware offloaded video decoding and get KZbin playing properly. Might want to get a fan on that CPU as well, I don’t know if it has a concept of thermal throttling on these old chips, or if it will just damage itself. Especially as it seems to still be overclocked.

[@BBHexKey]

have you thought of retrofitting a laptop blower fan onto the side of that heatsink, or possibly sticking one to the underside of the drive chassis? would allow you to get directed airflow onto the heatsink without too much concern for space issues.

[@AceMcCrank]

This was my thought. Put in a laptop side blower and put a cage over the heatsink to force the airflow through the fins.

[@HomelessTechnology]

I just opened a Power Mac G4 I got for £9 from a local Auction and found the even rarer 1.2Ghz Sonnet Crescendo ST purple heatsink inside it! I had no clue what it was until I watched a few KZbin videos and heard you talk about it at the start of this video.

[@Skunkiboi]

A machine from 1997 competes with machines from 2010. Thats amazing.

[@orestes1984]

These things were beasts back in the day. One of my favorite Macs ever. Completely upgradable and easy to access. I want this Apple back that provided fully upgradable computers.

[@danehenry895]

This is so nostalgic, I remember having one of these for my G4 mac DP MMD! it was a beast running at 2GHz!! was one of the fastest G4's in town... Great Vid!!

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Awesome. I'd totally install a PowerPC Linux on there for the most compatibility but I know that's not what the focus of the video was. Great content as always!!

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks man! I want to try booting Adelie Linux on here, I bet it could run a 5.x kernel that way. I just don't know if Linux could understand the SATA card though, so it would probably need to be on IDE

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

@@ActionRetro Adelie is in heavy development though... If it was me I'd me masochistic and use a source based distro like Gentoo or Funtoo... lol. I'm glad you know what Adelie even is... I thought I was the only one to discover it. lol.

[@ActionRetro]

@@ShiggitayMediaProductions Haha I love Adelie! It's such a tiny underdog distro but so fast on ancient machines. I have it on my G3 333 iMac and use it to SSH into my Threadripper at work!

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

@@ActionRetro Do you have Xorg running on it? I could only get it sort of installed and running with a base system in a VM... not onto bare metal yet....

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

@@ActionRetro Modern Linux kernels should see PCI SATA cards just fine as far as I know and can tell... you might have to compile a custom kernel from source if it doesn't, but I'm running Funtoo Linux on my Ryzen 5 3600X here and it sees SATA (and even NVME modules) after I custom compiled my own kernel. Also I'd recommend against kernel 5.x for right now... 4.x.x is still good. It's what I'm running on. Then again I have no clue what Adelie "ships" with when you do a base install, so your mileage may vary. Join their iRC channel. They're pretty active with helping people with Adelie, especially since it's an RC and not even a true 1.0 yet.

[@JinnaiT]

very nice. I plan on putting a NOS Encore I found for $33 in my G3.

[@ActionRetro]

Woah that's an awesome find!

[@d.r.1402]

You're making my OC go off by not cleaning the system/fans/motherboard.. All that dust/dirt.... *Shudder*

[@Kaninkanikanibiaa]

Love the vaporwave background

[@walterb.9290]

On my G3 B/W I found that ssd's connected to the ide port with a ide to sata converter give shorter boot times than connected to the pci sata card, tried it with hd too, same result. Mactracker says they both run at 33 MHz, but still the ide to sata converter is much quicker!

[@BCThunderthud]

How hard is it to get good troubleshooting info from the olden days of the web? Like I remember when I had a PDS G3 card alongside a couple of Digidesign cards I had to use an older version of the Sound control panel--it was either 7.6.1 under 8.1 or 8.1 under 8.6. I'm not at all sure how you'd figure that out now, although that was pre-Google so I don't know how I figured it out then either.

[@wofwof007]

Fantastic culmination of upgrades! Beige g3 for life! Err Beige G4 for Life!

[@adamsfusion]

I remember buying this upgrade. It was a surprise to me a few years ago when I tried to find one and see that they're mega rare now. To me, it was just a run of the mill upgrade for my blue PowerMac G3.

[@danaeckel]

Wow, this video series is quite cool. I was thinking of my old G3 and here I am. I have a hot rod G3 with 768MB ram, G4 overclocked to 666MHZ, USB/Firewire, IDE/133 card and Maxtor 133, Radeon graphics, DVD/CD Burner. OS Jaguar 10.2.8. I used this quite a bit from 2000-2006. I had it out 3 years ago and noticed the brittle plastic, but still booted up! I wonder how a SATA/SSD would increase it's speed and use a light Linux and put the old girl back in service. The ram is my biggest concern.

[@radcheckinski6300]

Flash a PNY fx6200 PCI to mac ( use the rom from the g5 Imac) I MIGHT still have a backup somewhere. That will give you the biggest boost

[@esseferio]

Interesting KZbin slideshow indeed :) (I lnow, that's beyond the point of this series ; otherwise, impressive little obsolete beast :))

[@ActionRetro]

😂😂😂

[@Robertkopp84]

I think that's smoother than youtube on a raspberry pi 2.

[@dustinb7967]

That thing is like a purple diving board off the edge of that ZIF socket!

[@MixerVM]

So when are you gonna do a video on that Umax Supermac at 4:00?

[@ActionRetro]

Haha I'm working on that beast right now!

[@edcdad1124]

Man im loving these upgrade videos 🎉

[@photolabguy]

Great content as usual! Definitely got the notification bell on for your channel!

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks man, I really appreciate that!!

[@larbob]

Found your channel because of the cursed SE video. Loved that video, the SuperMac series, and this one as well! By the way, what monitor are you using? It looks great.

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you, that really means a lot! It's an NEC MultiSync LCD 1525v that I debadged with Magic Eraser. It does really look great with vintage Macs, and it can handle a ton of old resolutions and refresh rates.

[@larbob]

@@ActionRetro Sweet, thanks for the info! Time for another saved eBay search ;)

[@macinjosh2223]

That is one cool sonnet card!

[@ActionRetro]

I love the massive purple heatsink so much

[@daveblake2145]

I don’t know why I love that machine, too. I had one I got at a thrift store that I recycled ages ago. Wish I hadn’t. Glad to see this vid. Still have my g4 power pc running OS 9.

[@WelcometoVideoCity]

Another solid, entertaining video. Really enjoying your content

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you, that really means a lot!

[@RBSVader]

Didn't know until today that these Macs had own CPU socket ecosystem. Thank you for amazing video! :3

[@Fatblokeonamoped]

Only last month did I put another drive into my Blue & White with its Sonnet 1Ghz upgrade to finally install Tiger and it's only since watching this did I realise there was software for OSX to go with it. DOH! Suitably installed yesterday so it can utilise the cache, it's now far more usable. (In my defence, I installed the Sonnet upgrade when 10.2 was mainstream and I was still firmly stuck in the 9.2.2 camp at the time, never having any spare beer coupons to spend on extra drives to risk losing my 9.2.2 install!)

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Very Nice Up Grade It Is A Beast

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks David!

[@AngeloTelesforo]

These videos made me want to rescue my old beige g3 (that I think I have upgraded to g4 if memory serves me correctly) from the storage and play a little with it.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

I wish this kind of upgrades were still available for sale, and for pc too. Today computers don't have this kind of updates.

[@StevenSmyth]

Very nice. I might get a Tower for something like this, but my desktop is meant to be my, “What if I had a fully loaded G3 and just did common upgrades?” So mine has Gigabit Ethernet, a Sonnet Tango, a Rage 128, and a DVD burner. I’m going to make a video on it today as I’m getting a Kensington two-button ADB mouse. I’m also adding a Global Village 56K modem in the PERCH slot (I’m going to show GlobalFax in the future because it was one of the coolest utilities ever made for the Mac) and replacing the power supply with one from my parts machine because it takes 90 seconds or so to go from a black screen to full video and I think the PSU is the bottleneck. Good as usual.

[@ActionRetro]

That's awesome!!

[@StevenSmyth]

Action Retro Well, bummer. The Kensington two button mouse from the seller on Amazon came in as an ALPS GlidePoint ADB trackpad. Historically, it’s interesting because when Windows 3.1 came out everyone was trying to reinvent pointing devices. It’s interesting, but not THAT interesting. Probably better to get a GlidePoint keyboard and review that. It delayed the video, but I’m still making one about the PSU.

[@johnnyhellfire6]

I was going through some of my old stuff, and found a power mac g3 blue and white tower, when I opened it up, I saw it had a big purple heat sink on it. I got the machine running again and on boot up, the splash screen for mac os 9 has a addition of powered by sonnet. I remembered you said there was a need for a additional program to get it to boot in to osx, I guess the question is, if I up grade the os, when do I need to install the program for the zif card, or is it already there

[@ActionRetro]

Download #2 here should be all you need! macintoshgarden.org/apps/sonnet-driver-2002

[@minty_Joe]

Now to see if the total cost to upgrade today is worth what it would have cost back then to get a G3 Beige up to where it is now.

[@DavideNastri]

Where do you find this amazing stuff?!?

[@roycenimchuk8425]

Where did you find the drivers for macOS nine I have one but I can only find the drivers for OS X on their website

[@TheMetalMag]

how can you find sonnet proc when it's hard to find one on ebay

[@deztructo123]

I weep for your thermal management

[@GalenlevyPhoto]

Awesome! You’re playing KZbin that’s basically newer than the g4 Frankenstein lol. Can that G4 daughter board be overclocked to 1.25 or even 1.42 ghz? I played with a mirror door g4 with 1.42 ghz in around 2008 ish. I think it was dual g4.

[@Phil-D83]

The viper 2 fpgas for amigas work on the 68x macs?

[@radcheckinski6300]

I had this in a B&W G3 tower, with 1gb of ram, and a fx6200 pci with 256mb. It played Halo, at 720p on a widescreen flatscreen with ZERO issues. The only drawback was that Leopard wouldn't run, period. (G3 Rom, modded by Sonnet)

[@Lunas2525]

I would probably open the psu on that and put a higher airflow fan in it. I would also probably open up those holes. And put a wire fan grill.

[@EweToobUsername]

So is your next trick going to be upgrading the video card and possibly playing with overclocking? I posted some links for doing this in the first of the series because I didn't come across the last 3 videos right away.

[@travisprice6605]

Does it not have a start up chime? Also great content how do you not have 20K + subs yet.

[@aitchpea6011]

Runs KZbin quicker than a Pi 3. Also, I just watched this build all the way through. I totally get it, awesome build!

[@ActionRetro]

Hah thanks!

[@DavidRichUK]

Great video where can i get the wallpaper.

[@koztech]

wallpaperaccess.com/retro-sunset

[@cascalheira]

At some point I had a Quadra 8600 with a 3dfx voodoo 5 5500 PCI card and it worked very good on OS9 to play unreal. May be that would be a worthy upgrade? (not sure if it fits in the G3 to be honest) You should also be able to buy the pc version and apply the Mac firmware (not sure if that can still be found online)

[@Guroth]

Hi there, I have one of these cards, but it’s missing the power lead. Any chance I could trouble you for some info on the power lead?

[@mapax5]

How are the temps?

[@jessepatterson8897]

should have tried to hack that G4 motherboard in, i'm almost sure it's got a 33% faster bus speed, which you would be fully taking advantage of.

[@radcheckinski6300]

Not a g3 anymore. The motherboard and its 66mhz bus makes it a g3

[@skunch]

how does youtube perform if you turn down the video stream 360p/240p?

[@rommix0]

You know the card is Sonnet when the heat sinks are purple.

[@TheHouseOfMoth]

Nice upgrades in that box! You'll have to come discuss them on Mac Yak soon ;)

[@ActionRetro]

Dude, I'd love to!

[@TheHouseOfMoth]

Action Retro I’ll have our people reach out to your people! (I’ll message you lol)

[@ActionRetro]

😂😂😂

[@soknightsam]

I don't know much about old macs so forgive if it's a stupid question but can you still add more l2 cache externally?

[@3rdalbum]

No - the cache isn't exactly "external", it's soldered to the CPU board! Even if you could solder a new chip on there there's no guarantees the CPU would work with it - and the soldering for this is probably too fine for humans to do.

[@Mac84]

Awesome work! Wow that thing is pretty zippy with that upgrade card. 🤓

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks man! It's basically a Mac Pro now!

[@annika6081]

You should try installing Leopard just for the hell of it!

[@jensputzlocher8345]

This G3-board ist able to boot 10.2 withou cheating. You have to use xpostfacto to boot max. 10.4. Thats all. Remember this machine originally was sold with 8.0 !

[@SimonTekConley]

You should get an AIO mac. Those were fun

[@crestdazoltral7705]

This system needs a 3d printed duct to route air through a modern laptop fan and over the G4 CPU heatsink similar something you might find in a 1U server.

[@IoIxD]

My main laptop also can't view KZbin in HD, as its from 2004. But I've always hypotheized that if I put a modern, faster wireless card in it, then it would work. I haven't been able to test this hypothesis (the wireless card I ordered hasn't even shipped for some reason...?), but I think its worth trying to see if its a proper solution. Nonetheless, great video!

[@ActionRetro]

Haha thank you! What laptop are you using?

[@IoIxD]

@@ActionRetro Thinkpad R51.

[@IoIxD]

@@dave7244 That makes sense, actually. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix it?

[@IoIxD]

@@dave7244 I don't have the kind of money for even a slightly newer laptop, and I won't for a long time. How can I fix it without buying a new laptop?

[@eDoc2020]

@@IoIxD Your computer can probably play the HD video stream outside of the web page. VLC can play KZbin, at least it could in the past. If it still works with the latest KZbin updates you may have some luck using that. Also, have you tried looking at Craigslist or FB marketplace, etc for a newer laptop? If you ask around locally you could probably find a Core 2 Duo laptop for under $30. At least you could a few months ago, the used market has gotten more expensive with more people working from home. You might want to get in contact with a local computer shop if there is one near you, they may have some systems which may otherwise be getting sent to recyclers.

[@TrustedShip]

You run halo ce on the beige g3

[@doughnut_panda]

What about cleaning the cooler?!

[@ChrisLincoln]

I cannot get over how much you sound like the singer from Thr Dead Milkmen

[@ActionRetro]

If you ain't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin

[@nathanaelhood7699]

That thing boots faster than my 2010 MacBook! Well, so does my Mac mini G4... Is there a way you could install a WiFi card, or even go past the "max" RAM? If so, that thing could actually be even more usable today

[@nathantaylor2026]

Should throw an ssd into your MacBook. My 2010 MacBook has an ssd + macOS Monterey, runs pretty well. Also may want to consider upping the ram to 8gb at least if you haven’t already

[@madmax2069]

Ahh the Beige G3. I own two Beige G3 AIO (the Molar Mac).

[@michaelperugini4199]

Anyone got the Sonnet Encore softwares for 500Mhz / 800Mhz and the 1000Mhz ?

[@empyrical]

Are you able to boot Mac OS 8.1 off of these still after upgrading them with this G4 card? Also, do you know if a "Molar Mac" G3 would be compatible with an upgrade like this?

[@thenebular]

Now overclock the sonnet! I WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL THE MAGIC SMOKE COMES OUT!!!

[@ActionRetro]

Hahahaha

[@cleanycloth]

Jesus, that thing is now over twice the speed of my poor 400MHz G4 Mystic/Gigabit Ethernet 😆

[@IanC14]

Noctua fans are the best, I even quite like the look of them.

[@michaelperugini4199]

just got a Beige G3 tower with a Sonnet 800mhz ZIF processsor (purple) i powered it on and with a CD boot 9.2 you can tell its slow and after full boot profiler only shows 67mhz not 800mhz WTH!? any ideas? i was told it boots up fine, but 67mhz is slower than the original 300mhz so make no since what so ever

[@3rdalbum]

Jumper settings, maybe?

[@michaelperugini4199]

@@3rdalbum no. It was driver (extensions) needed to be installed

[@puwazatza]

So actually if I had known all of these in this video, I could've extended my 1998 G3/233s life span for another 2-4 years or so.

[@kadenfurr9699]

I have a VIA card with 3 via chips that does firewire, ide, sata, and usb. getting those things to work is a nightmare, especially on windows

[@MyComputerStudios_]

CAN IT RUN LEOPARD NOW?

[@jensputzlocher8345]

No, a G3-board can't run 10.5 leopard.

[@徐子翔-c9o]

I’ve used a Pentium II 350(@420)MHz machine with 384MB PC100 SDRAM and IDE hard drive (@UDMA33) to play KZbin video on the Firefox browser few years ago, it not loading as slow as this. why this takes so long time to loading it?

[@rascalwind]

Well.... . ... That was Cool!!!!

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Cable memegement

[@GerdMcGurk]

I feel a little bit of Druaga1 vibes from this

[@Lemony1456]

Purple power!

[@greggv8]

I thought you were going to install a much better video card

[@amdintelxsniperx]

i hav a encore 1ghz with 2mb l4 id happily sel it