Yikes! also cannot boot from USB drives (see USB Info and Benefits of Dual-Channel USB). However, the Yikes! G4 cannot boot from a FireWire drive and does not support FireWire Target Disk Mode. The 1999 G4 Power Macs were the first Macs with bootable USB. The Yikes! version does not have the AGP video card slot or support AirPort. The Yikes! machines have a different motherboard with different features than the Sawtooth G4, which is covered on a separate page. Note that there were two different versions of the Power Mac G4. The 400 MHz Yikes! (a.k.a PCI Graphics) offers 0.8-3.2 gigaflops (billion floating point operations per second) performance by government definition in 1999, it was a supercomputer. Designed in graphite gray, silver, and clear plastics, it even looks professional. Offering up to twice the performance of the G3 and three times the power of a Pentium III at the same clock speed, the G4 was Apple’s first serious pro computer after Steve Jobs became iCEO.

The Power Mac G4 was the first personal computer classified as munitions and under export restriction because of its power at the time it was introduced. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.Lla”Wicked fast” is the phrase that best summarizes the breakthrough performance of the G4 CPU. Here is my original build, where you can also learn from my mistakes as well:

You can get away without the angle grinder, and just use a Dremel, it just takes a lot longer, and you'll go through more cutting discs. Then there were little things like the ATX power/reset switch/cable, fan covers, rubber edging, etc, and the custom aluminium bracket I had made for the radiator, which was a total of £20.īut bear in mind this cost doesn't include the tools needed like an Angle Grinder, Drill and Dremel (as well as drill/dremel bits) and various other tools and bits like screw drivers, pop rivet gun, sand paper, paint removing chemicals etc. I picked up the case for £1.20 on Ebay (bargain I know!) Luckily for you, I had documented my expenditure when I originally built the case.

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