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

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.

Part 1:    • Combining two 1997 Beige G3 Power Mac...  
Part 2:    • Can you install a Yikes! G4 Processor...  

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  A few of the upgrades you'll see in this series this series:

💥 Swapping in the Zif G4 processor from a Yikes! G4 and overclocking it
💥 Video card from a Blue and White G3
💥 Max out RAM
💥 SATA controller PCI card to boot Tiger from SATA instead of IDE via adapter
💥 USB 2.0 and Firewire
💥 Upgrade cooling to accommodate that G4
💥 Super-secret rare upgrades that I won't spoil here!


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