#VIDEO CARD FOR MAC G4 PRO#
I think the Rage 128 Pro is a decent card for the time and these were found in virtually all Apple Macintosh machines at the time.
These cards came with 16mb of video memory onboard. This would of been the stock video card to come with this G4 though some models also came with non Pro versions. Video – The video card I have installed is an AGP ATI Rage 128 Pro card. Also new to this model over the Yikes Macintosh is the x2 AGP slot for a dedicated video card. The Sawtooth comes with three 66mhz PCI slots which will accept your standard PCI cards as well as special cards meant for the faster 66mhz PCI slot. If your having odd instabilities replace these things first.įinally lets take a look at the expansion slots and cards I have installed. Like all Macs the death of these batteries tend to cause more issues then what I see happen in PC’s. This was a feature not present on the earlier model.ĥ) ATA connectors – Two ATA66 connectors for attaching up to four IDE devices such as CD drives and hard drives.Ħ) CMOS battery – Is the standard 3.6 V lithium battery to save settings. This is a Firewire 400 jack on the lower right corner of the motherboard presumably to power an internal Firewire hard drive.Ĥ) Wireless airport card connector for attaching a wireless card. The Sawtooth G4 has an interesting internal connector not present on the earlier Yikes models nor the later Gigabit Ethernet version. Also earlier OS’s which originally came loaded onto the Sawtooth can only detect up to 1.5gbģ) Internal Firewire.
stock though the most the machine usually came with was 256mb. The 450mhz would be the middle range option and is probably comparable to an earlier Pentium III in performance.Ģ) RAM – There are four slots present designed to handle up to 2GB of PC100 SDRAM. The CPU in this machine is a 450mhz version with 1mb of L2 cache but they also came in speeds of 350mhz to 500mhz.
#VIDEO CARD FOR MAC G4 PC#
This motherboard like the Yikes model before it and the Gigabit Ethernet model after run on a 100mhz front side bus.ġ) CPU – All of the original model G4 Macs run on the Power PC G4 (7400) CPU. Now lets take a better look at the motherboard.Ĭompared to a PC motherboards I always found Macintosh motherboards from this time to look rather sparse and boring though this may be attributed to having components on the underside of the board. I left the OS that was installed though which was OS X 10.2 though I believe the original OS shipped was 8.6. Possibly the previous owner was running a RAID array. The G4 Macintosh actually has ample room for hard drives and mine came with six hard drives installed. Mine originally had a hard drive installed in it for some reason. The lower bay appears to be 5 1/4 at a glance but it’s really a 3 1/2 bay. The bays are actually one single piece that slides out by removing the front panel and undoing two screws. Up top we see the power supply as well as the two drive bays. Here I have all the expansion cards removed as to give a better view. Like the other G4 Macs the case opens very easily by pulling on a handle on the side. We also have a jack for a modem to the right. On the upper half we have our various connectivity jacks and ports.Closest to the top we have two Firewire 400 ports with a 10/100 Ethernet jack below that and then below that we have two USB 1.1 ports and finally two audio jacks for speaker and / or microphone. Turning the Macintosh around we see the PSU connector as well as four expansion slots on the lower portion of the case.
#VIDEO CARD FOR MAC G4 ZIP#
Mine has a DVD drive installed as well as an optional ZIP drive. There are two bays, one 5 1/4 and the lower bay being 3 1/2. The front is identical to the earlier models with the center speaker and power button as well as the smaller reset and debug buttons on the lower section. Released in 1999 the Sawtooth was a modest improvement over the earlier “Yikes” G4 with an AGP slot for video as well as faster ATA controller for IDE devices and the option of some faster video cards as well as faster CPU speeds. The Sawtooth as we will refer to it uses the same style case and color scheme as the Digital Audio G4 that I covered earlier as well as the entire early G4 line. The Macintosh G4 “Sawtooth” also referred to as the AGP G4 due to its addition of an AGP slot for video. In this article we are going to take a brief look at another of this line. On this blog we have already taken a look at two models of the Apple G4 Macintosh line.
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