I spent myself a lot of time and some money to fix my G4 : I guess the more we discuss the more likely OP would trade the new found G5 for a G4 🤣 I guess the copper heatsink helped a lot. I monitored the temperature readings in iStatPro and the real FW800 has much better CPU temperature control. Recently I found a FW800 1.42GHz DP in a dumpster and surprisingly it's much quieter than the hybrid I built. Later I swapped the CPU/mobo with 1.42GHz DP/FW800 but kept the old heatsink and man, the fan went full power ever so easily. I started with a G4 MDD 867MHz and any simple task would trigger its loud fan. IMac 15' flat panel, but it has only a GF2-mx.

Since I did not get a doscard from from orange for my G3 B&W. G3-400 upgrade card an an apple pentium166 card as well. Is relativly silent if you don't put a V3-3000-PCI in it and beside that I still have my PM7300 with My G4-Mini starts with 10.3.7, the G4-Mini with 64MB Vram starts with 10.4.xįor native OS9 and below I still have a PM-G4 witch is very loud, beside that I have a G3 B&W witch

Perhaps Classic was better integrated in the earlier OSX-Versions like 10.1.x and a view os9 titles that work OK in classic I stick to my G4 Mini for the early OSX games up to 10.3.9. If you like a noisy machine, then go for a PM-G4, they were never silent. I stick to my G4 Mini for the early OSX games up to 10 So if im understanding you correctly you're saying the oldest version of mac os that the g5 supports, is to new for the mac games i have? Reply 4 of 18, by Jo22ĭr.zeissler wrote: If you like a noisy machine, then go for a PM-G4, they were never silent. Support for Classic was dropped in 10.5, which is the last version that G5 can use on systems with 10.5, you have to use an emulator – in which case you're not much better off than running the same emulator in Windows.įor many games like Phantasmagoria, Shadow Warrior, and Quake, you are probably much better off just using the Windows (or DOS) version. those that required OS 9 or earlier) in the 'Classic' environment. If the system is running OS X 10.4 or earlier, then it can run older Macintosh applications (i.e. Mac OS changed substantially with 'OS X'. If the system is running OS X 10.4 or earlier, then it can run older Macintosh applic Jorpho wrote: Mac OS changed substantially with 'OS X'.

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