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[Early Access] Hacking a super-powered PC graphics card into my G4 Cube
🕑 Added 2020-11-12 16:53:45 +0000 UTCHello Patreon friends! Welcome to the early access video for this week!
OK, I'm really excited about this mod. The G4 Cube is quite famously under-powered, originally coming with either a 400mhz or 500mhz G4 and a really lame Rage 128 Pro graphics card. Since we've already maxed ours out with a 1.2 GHz G4 and an SSD, really the only thing left is to put a killer graphics card in.
The only problem is, there aren't a lot of great options that fit in the Cube.
So today, we're going to be hacking a super-fast GeForce 6200 graphics card that only ever came out for PC, to try and get 256 megs of graphics goodness into our Cube.
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Comments
Action Retro
Haha yeah I was so disappointed! This video took weeks to make because everything kept going wrong. Worth it in the end though!
Daniel Bartholomew
Super awesome machine. Glad you were able to get it working in the end!
Shiggitay
Oh man... your heart must have freakin' SANK when you realized that the first GF 6200 was bricked.... I know I would have been super sad... but good on you for buying a backup card, or even if it was just on a whim to try again, kudos all the same. I know it's not that easy to get to the SSD in there, but why not try and hack in a second SSD or slim HDD and install Adelie Linux on it? I think it's getting closer to release (right now it's on Release Candidate 2 I believe). Great video and I feel special being able to see it before most. haha.
