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Can a 1997 G3 Power Mac take a modern SATA controller with SSDs? The Beige Beast, Part 3! (2020x26)

Data di messa in onda: Lug 12, 2020

How far can we push our Power Macintosh Beige G3 desktop - now a G4! - from 1997? Well, today continues our adventure! In this third episode, we're putting in a ton of upgrades to compliment our newly-installed G4, which we've also managed to overclock just a bit faster. Honestly I'm even more excited about one of these upgrades that I was about the overclocked G4 - we're putting in a PCI SATA controller card! Oh yes, forget that slow 16.6 MBps IDE, we're going 133 MBps! We'll put a SATA SSD off that card, and we should be able to use that as a boot drive. Boot drive for what you may ask? 10.4 Tiger! By the end of this video, we should have Tiger natively booting from an SSD on real-deal SATA. Paired with the G4, this really should be the fastest possible Beige G3 desktop.