The Worlds Fastest Power Mac G3 Blue & White (Part 4) | IMNC
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Welcome to the fourth of many parts in this PowerPC goodness crammed series. During this series, we'll be packing the absolute best technology that this machine can support into this gorgeous Blue & White G3 minitower, creating what I believe will be the fastest B&W G3 on the planet. This is the most involved Power Mac upgrade series I've ever produced, changing every single major component in this box and adding as much as I can to make this machine fly. Sit back, relax and enjoy some mighty fine PowerPC geeky goodness.
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Just a note... I'd highly recommend that you remove that red Maxell PRAM battery.. Those are known to leak and destroy boards.
I discovered your channel recently whilst researching home networking and to be honest, none of this video makes any sense to me whatsoever but your enthusiasm is infectious. You're the Bob Ross of the computing world. 👍
This level of buggering about and tenacity is the real story of making computers work well;)
keep multipart series! :D
I agree
Love this series! I personally love the multiple parts, it makes it kind of feel like an adventure 😁
Puts a smile on my face when I see a new video from you Tom.
I love these powerpc videos so much, thank you for part 4!
Finally.. It took quite a while, but it did really worth it. Thanks, Tom!
stoped watching everything and started this! excellent!
Tom, concerning your intro for this part: I personally wouldn't like a snappier or faster approach. I like the way your videos are constructed/edited. The reason I like the IMNC tech videos, is the information and explanations given. It's knowledge.
Great video by the way!
Dont change the format. I love seeing the Progress
I have installed myself a Sonnet Encore ZIF 1GHz 1MB CPU! The process was very difficult, especially without any manuals! You had to flash the ROM, jumper settings changed (where the VOID warranty seal is) etc! But managed to get it working and is so fun to use! :D The purple heatsink makes the inside looks amazing!
Anxiously awaiting this video, as I anxiously await the delivery of my first Blue/White PowerMac G3! Long time fan, since the iMac G3 days!
"Might as well stick it in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) " - IMNC 2k17
I've been waiting for part 4 and finally it's here ;)
Okay, you win, I'm a subscriber now. Your enthusiasm is infectious. Cool stuff.
You're enthousiasme is just amazing!! I am planning on doing a cpu upgrade on a older pc laptop, but not a cpu upgrade, a hardwire cpu overclocking method, my cpu runs at peak performance at 1.70Ghz, with the hardwire method, i should double the cpu performance but it will throttle down to a 800Mhz when idle, thx to intel speedstep technology (and that is what you're powerpc chip is actually doing, it will adress only a 500Mhz when idle, but at full load, it will crank up the speed to 1Ghz), so, i am as excited as you are!! Wish me luck man! You're vids our awesome!!!
Whilst the multipart episodes are a bit annoying I prefer them over a small video where everything is rushed through without any geeky details :)
I love the multipart videos, but i cannot wait between the episodes!!!
you made my want to build something with a retro computer! :)
Tom you have the best reactions from putting the hard drives in and CPU can't what to see your Beast G3 on the Benchmarks
Glad to see that G3 cpu upgrade is working. I'm not gonna lie, after you installed it and pressed the power button, I was totally expecting to see smoke roll out the top of the machine. haha.
I'm thinking of building out a classic Mac project too, but I'll probably do something running OS9. Or perhaps a 68k Mac.
I was laughing so hard from the bong on until it was booted up! :D
Hey tom!!! I got home from work today and my PC will not let me log into my Microsoft account lol..I spent a few hours trying to figure out what was going on. I have no idea what happened but it is all good it is a gaming pc and there was nothing on it that i could not get back. I just finished the video and when you heard the bong after the CPU upgrade made my day!! Love the videos keep it up don't give up hehehe...
The SSD issue could be that you are not actually using the raid card but using the software raid. The system could be smart enough to find half of the system image but it can not initialize the software raid and boot from it. A number of years ago i tried to RAID some IDE drives but had no luck. You have a raid card for IDE that you can boot from although, it would be ridiculous to use that card with some converters to convert SATA to IDE.
additionally, sometimes after you install on a RAID, you need to boot from the installer and manually select the startup disc from the installer's system preferences menu.
I also believe the pad thing, which I have on my g3, is a thermal pad rather than a compound so you don't have to reapply thermal paste after upgrading or etc.
Keep Up the good work! Loving the PPC Videos!
Hello Tom, I think the problem is that you are using Software RAID 0 instead of Hardware RAID 0. I'm not sure about Mac, but on a PC you cannot boot from Software RAID without special software. I think same problem happened here - G3 BIOS do not support booting from this type of software RAID. You need to make hardware RAID 0 (I don't know how to make it on Mac, but on PC: When PC is booting (before POST beep) you have to press some keyboard combination (depends on the card manufacturer) to start RAID utility which is stored on RAID card and then use this utility to make RAID 0.
This is impossible on the Mac. There is only Open Firmware and no hardware setup like that found in the PC's BIOS. RAID utilities aren't available. It has to be done in software.
Hey Tom, I just bought my G4 Cube 450. I wanted to know, what apps do you recommend for g4 machines, I've never used one before
Awesome video Tom ! Loving this series
Im realy loving this vlogs continue as you're doing them nowadays.
I prefer the current format of this series.
Remember to enable Quartz Extreme! The Radeon 9200 can handle it fine, but it is disabled by default on PCI cards. You will get a more fluid interface.
I've only in 2017 discovered round IDE cables too!
I had my fingers crossed when you were booting it with the IDE drives.
Thanks to everyone that told me what verbose mode is. I really appreciate it
I would want a bigger heatsink running at 1Ghz
any of em like 10.5.9 or something lower...ppc compatible...hard AF to find these disc images..i prefer the multi cd packs
“Mint” is something kids say at my school
FINALLY, NEARLY DIED FOR WAITING THISSS
Great video Tom!
This video is pure awesome Tom you crack me up :)
I've never seen so many optical drives go bad before. Usually, i fix em with a new belt, lubed up rails/gears, or cleaning it's lens.
Jason Hicks They're not bad, they just don't work that great with Macs for booting. Some of them worked ok in OS X but refused to boot OS discs.
Whoa... Forgot even older drives for windows and even Linux have quarks like that too
I have a Pentium 3 board socket PGA370 and how the Heatsync goes on is very similar
Can't wait to watch!
im running RAID 0 in my file server for 4TB... its backed up tho
The 750gx uses a process similar to Intel speed step, so About This Mac will not display the correct speed, but CPU Director will.
Good 😊 programming and I thought it was going to 🔥great job
Please keep the mdd in the setup for your desk
Awesome you're a cool guy thank you for saving my day. Keep it up ;)
I love this series, but is tinged with sadness as I just brought a mdd G4 'working' turns out it has a blown power supply :(
I honestly thought the thermal paste on the heatsink was a black guide to see how you would orient it on the cpu.
Laxr115 Could have been!! No idea what I scrubbed off if I'm honest.
What was the upgraded CPU called?
Looking at this CPU upgrade , while my Dad's PowerMac G4 with 300mhz sits here on my shelf XD, oof!
It had an option for 1100 MHz. What's that all about?
For those CRAAAZZZZYYYY overclocks bruh! Probably need liquid nitrogen for that baby!
Hi Tom,
i have a question to you, what is the name of the SATA-card in your G3?
thank you
YES FINALLY!
It looks like you configured the dip switches in the exact opposite way they are supposed to be configured.
Well spotted! I was wondering who the 1st person would be to notice. I put the 'Hmmmm' on screen as a little hint that something wasn't quite right.
Well I watch all of your PPC videos with high attention because I love PPCs and the way you make videos about them (btw please keep the multiple parts, it makes the project feel so realistic).
One solution is to use the SSD as your OS drive and 4x5TB Western Digital Red drives on one RAID card in RAID 10 mode for your personal files and do a reboot and see if that works and I think that it should work as something is causing a system wide crash which is stopping OS X from installing and maybe something in OS X doesn't like the configuration, That CPU socket looks like the socket on the Gigabyte M2N68-LA (Narra3) motherboard.
those works even in OpenFirmWare
And it was wrapped in aluminium foil to protect it against ESD. ONLY protection against ESD is conductor around ESD sensitive device.
at the start f the video, it was not working because you created a "soft raid" not a "hard raid" you need a hard raid to boot with a raid array. with a soft raid, you need an os installed/ a external boot device to boot to the raid array.
Hey Tom! That 1Ghz CPU looks like it'll get quite toasty under that heat sink. You should get a pin 40mm noctua fan and mount it to the cooler and power bit by getting a 3 pin fan splitter and plugging it into the motherboard!
Hey man! It's strange because lots of the CPU upgrades from the same time came with their own heatsinks and fans, especially the higher clocked G4 chips from Sonnet. This one apparently doesn't get any hotter than the stock CPU, but for a combination of coolness and reassurance, I think I will get a fan for it. It'll also make it look a little beefier! Kinda weird upgrading the CPU and keeping a tiny heatsink.
ItsMyNaturalColour Wow! I honestly never would've figured that the G3 upgrade chip would produce around the same amount of heat as the original. That being said, the fact that you used real thermal paste would improve the cooling performance as well. I agree with you though, I think it would make the system look even better. And peace of mind is always a good thing ;) anyways though man, absolutely loving the series. Hopefully we can see that G4 MDD back in action some time! Wouldn't want that graphics card going to waste I sent you a while back! ;)
Damn, would i kill for that PC
I really like these long series. :)
this saturday i got powermac 9600 200 with newer technolagy maxpowr 250/125 (powerpc 750 g3 250mhz) cool score
Nice Video !!!!
Try an IDE raid,just to see if it's raid in general
As in the startup disks
I’m having flashbacks to my G4 Cube upgrade….
hey tom is it possible u can do the worlds fastest g5 video of a powermac since there a quad core version and it rare
Jonathan Grindle the PowerPC Hub already did one...
My mdd has another heatsink for the cpu.
BEST VIDEO !! LAUGHING MY ASS OFF !
Me too!
Is there a motherboard bios to alter mode for the pci card for Sata verses ide ?
Sean, ah. Never dived into legacy mac. But I had a similar issue with a pc a few years back. I had to switch to ata to get raid to work properly.
Hi, very good video series.
You definitely inspire me to find a project like the Mac G3 B&W.
And I found a really cheap Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics).
CPU was 350Mhz and I found a 400Mhz. Not a real speed jump but this is just a fun project.
I had the same problem you had with the CPU speed not showing the right speed and a looked at the motherboard more closely and there are jumpers under the with sticker "Void warranty if seal is broken". It is one big jumper. Yours in the video is white mine was blue. I removed it and replaced it with smaller jumpers. See this site for the jumpers settings :
eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=zif/bwjumpers.html
I tried different settings but in my case the best result was at 450Mhz.
Keep the good work.
Thanks
Claude
yo cuz....where do u get those iso?
Which ISO? xD
go to 1100 u know you want to !! :D
REPLACE THE PRAM BATTERY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what actually is x11 when installing osx?
X11 is the X-Windows screen server software and is usually used in conjunction with OpenGL not sure if OS X uses the KDE desktop.
support.apple.com/en-au/HT201341
DAVID GREGORY KERR thankss
Keep it
ARGH that is not a heat spreader its the die
+ItsMyNaturalColour I like it the way your doing this series personally
also wtf is "verbos Mode"
Verbose mode is when you start it up and instead of showing the apple logo and the spinning thing, it shows you all the things its doing in a commandline kind of format. It basically lets you know where its hanging each time.
Tom I have a question that I am incredibly frustrated about.....my apologies because this has nothing to do with the video. I'm using my MacBook pro with an external monitor and have set the wallpaper multiple times, although every time I boot the background resets.....wondering if you've had this issue with your MBP and if you know how to fix it?
24:46 WWWAAAAAY to much thermal paste
you know, the interesting thing is, there’s really no right amount of thermal paste. too little is a thing. but too much only makes cleaning the cpu a bit more difficult. not gonna hurt performance or the cpu itself
i been trying to figure out as i watch this series is your hair real?
Fennec Fox Yes. He has albinism.
why not use 10.4.11?
Well I know it's a 7 months old comment, but it has some problem with the program thing.
funny that for every tiger install he shows less and less
I found the amount of thermal paste pretty amusing. I've just had to strip down my 15" 2015 MBP (6 months out of warranty) to replace the thermal paste, after seeing temps in the high 90s when running Logic. Apple applied enough not only to cover the chips but also some of the logic board, cables and a few other parts. Have done the same to a 2012 MBP, 2 2008 Mac Pros and a number of iMacs. It seems that despite plenty of technological advancements, Apple have yet to learn to apply thermal paste properly.
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28:00 WTF
Are you Albino?
Congratz! I've been trying to flash my gpu bios, couldn't go further than the 'beep' (write protect off) I have a 7800GTX512 BFG for my powermac G5, love the machine bought 2 samsung 850 PRO's (RAID 0 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) and got 4 GB DDR2-4200U(553 MHz) + 4GB DDR2 (slower memory :p ) Tom, can you help me?
Good vid but abit over dramatic
Morgan walton You serious ? Dude this is a big deal we're talking the worlds fastest G3 !!!! :D
You put too much thermal paste..
Zestypanda Not really, that amount of thermal paste will be fine.
Its me again. The guy who sold you pioneer Optical Disk Drive. I have sold you USB card as well. They do sell them and I will let you know a secret, but I shall let you and only you know this secret. I shall write an email to you as soon as I would be able
Since there is no raid card, isnt the Raid a software system, how can it load itself? At the point of load how can it see the raid if it is dependent on the OS? I could be way off but just seems so. I love this G3 series.
oh man, i been looking forward to this
Finally! yes!