With Windows, you can buy an ASUS motherboard, AMD processor, MSI graphics card, Western Digital hard drive, 8GB of Kingston RAM, put them in a Corsair case, power them with a Seasonic power supply, connect it to a 27' Acer monitor and Epson laser printer, connect to your network via Ethernet, install AVAST security, and install Microsoft Office on it to create your resume/CV, and it will work. Virtually each and every one became a unique system within the first few minutes of being booted up the very first time! Users setup their accounts, personalization, networking, security apps, personal apps, and peripherals. There are over 1.6 billion (with a 'b') Windows computers out there. I've replaced many a G4 psu with an ATX one, it's easy as.Click to expand.No its not! A little bit of homework and setting aside of biases is needed here.Ĭonsider this. Then ground the -5V wire - although, nowadays, most high end PSUs do that anyway. Now, there never was a G4 300, 350 was the lowest speed for the Yikes/Sawtooth models (You sure you are not talking about a Blue&White G3 - they take a standard ATX PSU, afaik), so if it's a Yikes or a Sawtooth all you need to do is connect the grey PG wire (power good, is unnecessary as macs delay start up anyway - on a pc this is the signal which mobo uses to let you know it's powered up after a second or so) to one of the dark yellow 3.3V ones. You can use a standard ATX power supply without too much modification - you just need to swap a couple of wires over on the plug. (The G4 is only 300MHz, so having only 1.6GHz isn't an issue.Ĭan someone give me some advice on what they should do?

if this option where would I find a power supply for the G4? Replace the power supply myself, instead of paying $125 for someone to do it. Buy a used G4, or other used cheap mac under $600 What I want to know is which is the best option?

This is not the first thing that has died on it, just a few months ago the Hard Drive died, but they got a new one. My parents have a G4 tower, it is like 8 years old, and the power supply had died.

Recap power supply for mac g5 tower