I don't think you can use Yikes! CPU's in a beige. They were made to run on a 100mhz bus, which the beige doesn't have.Could you please expand on that? This was mentioned here once before but never explained properly and there's been a lot of conflicting info here about whether the Yikes! CPU can be dropped into any Beigey or if only the OWC/Sonnet G4s made specifically for the Beige will work, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of clear info about it anywhere else. I know that if you have a "ROYAL" VRM then you can't use any G4 CPU, either the Yikes or the specific Beige upgrade ones, but is there any way of using a Yikes! CPU? I only ask because the Yikes! CPU seems to be obtainable for next to nothing, whereas the other ones that look the same but apparently aren't are extremely expensive (more than a complete graphite G4 machine in fact!).You might also get lucky and have the newer VRM module that allows for G4 ZIF CPU's to be installed. I can only imagine how much more of a speed increase I would get if I stuck a 600MHz G4 in my machine.
Post #16 by Quadraman
| Source Forum | Woo! Power Macintosh G3 Tower and a PowerBook 520 too! — #16 |
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| Category | PowerPC |
| Post Date | Sat, 1 Sep 2007 - 20:59 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/woo-power-macintosh-g3-tower-and-a-powerbook-520-too.9648/ |
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I don't think you can use Yikes! CPU's in a beige. They were made to run on a 100mhz bus, which the beige doesn't have.