QYV
Epic Member
First project log. As this is my first attempt at doing any kind of mod, I made some mistakes and learnt a lot. Also I did it just for the hell of it.
So in 2014 I got a busted PowerMac G5. I tried fiddling with it to possibly repair it but soon got tired of that. Got the idea to build my pc into it, while still keeping the original Mac G5 exterior look.
First some shots of the G5 case.
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Stripped out the innards. That is one massive board, with heatsinks on the reverse side.
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The grey plastic thing is a sort of channel to route the wiring for top part of the case, i.e. the hard drives and optical drive. I wanted to keep that in to keep the channel and keep the wiring neat. Turns out it gets in the way of the cpu heatsink back plate and causes clearance issues.
Just adding a mention [MENTION=12007]Death the Kid[/MENTION]
He said I should a project log one day.
So in 2014 I got a busted PowerMac G5. I tried fiddling with it to possibly repair it but soon got tired of that. Got the idea to build my pc into it, while still keeping the original Mac G5 exterior look.
First some shots of the G5 case.
View attachment 57150
View attachment 57151
Stripped out the innards. That is one massive board, with heatsinks on the reverse side.
View attachment 57152
View attachment 57153
The grey plastic thing is a sort of channel to route the wiring for top part of the case, i.e. the hard drives and optical drive. I wanted to keep that in to keep the channel and keep the wiring neat. Turns out it gets in the way of the cpu heatsink back plate and causes clearance issues.
Just adding a mention [MENTION=12007]Death the Kid[/MENTION]
He said I should a project log one day.
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