How to Upgrade your Power-PC from MAC OS X to LINUX ? Super-secret rare upgrades that I won't spoil here! ? Upgrade cooling to accommodate that G4
? SATA controller PCI card to boot Tiger from SATA instead of IDE via adapter ? Swapping in the Zif G4 processor from a Yikes! G4 and overclocking it
? Support these retro computing shenanigans on Patreon! ?Ī few of the upgrades you'll see in this series this series: ? For more vintage Apple stuff, please subscribe: ?Ĭheck out the MacYak podcast! It's great: ? I found this wonderful upgrade at the Apple Rescue of Denver: ? But can this ancient 1997 Power Macintosh really handle 1Ghz of PURPLE POWER? Let's find out! Today we're doing something I've always dreamed of - we're putting a Sonnet Encore G4 1Ghz ZIF upgrade into the Beige Beast! If all goes well, we should wind up with the fastest possible Beige G3.
I have a video explain my planning for future projects I know this isn't my main style of content but less so I feel anyone will be interested it's more about getting content out there at times like this. Got a couple more bangers in the pipeline so don't worry.