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I also had my fair share of soldering today. And best of all the I/O shield snaps in and out like it should, so swapping boards will be no problem. I finally got around to getting the rear I/O inset piece installed and I'm pleased to say everything lines up. I need to trim it a little more though.Īnd a few minutes ago I cut a 4.5' hole in the bottom of the stock G5 power supply case for the PSU cooling fan as well as block off the holes where the two 60mm fans were located with a piece of cut aluminum.Īnd as for the corresponding hole cut into the bottom of the G5 case, VOILA! Here is a pic of its location being mocked up. So now that I've got the tray installed properly, right now I'm getting ready to cut the rear of the case and fit the aluminum inset piece which will hold the motherboards I/O shield.

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One of the main concerns was that I didn't want to completely butcher the case plus I really like some of the high end mATX boards soon to be released like the Asus Z87 Gryphon seen here: To make sure everything was lined up while the epoxy set, i mounted a shortened mATX board that I had been using in a media server so when I decide on a proper mATX board, it should be a few inches longer.

some light sanding and a shot of satin clear coat, this is the result:Ī healthy dose of 2 part epoxy and the tray is definitely not going anywhere. It came out of a Coolermaster Stacker case.Īnd after removing some rivets, and some slicing and dicing with my angle grinder equipped with a cut-off blade.

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So far I've gutted the G5, removed all the stand-offs, and began work on the PSU and Motherboard tray.įor a motherboard tray, I looked around online at Lian-Li and MountainMods but after some consideration, I realized I had a full aluminum tray collecting dust in my garage which I saved years ago for a project just like this. I'll have pics of that tonight once I get some time. I plan on using an mATX motherboard so I can also keep the power supply where it belongs, but I'm already in the process of changing out the guts of the PSU with a 600w OCZ I had laying around. I haven't completely decided on the guts but I know I'm going to configure it to retain the rear expansion slots but remove the I/O ports. So I've built a few Hackintosh systems in the past but never the actual case even though I've been modding PCs since AMD released the first Athlon in 1999. it was deduced that the logic board was shot and in addition to payment for the work, he gave me the computer to do as i see fit.

last week a relative called me and asked if i'd come down to his office to diagnose why his backup graphic design PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 (June 2004) was not booting and after some frustration with the common '3 blinks' memory error, trying other good ram, and many other things. For many years I've wanted to get my hands on one of these beautiful and incredibly well built PowerMac G5 cases and do a Hackintosh conversion but back when I got the idea they were far too expensive to risk the project on, and in recent years I was just too busy.

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