Original Powermac G5 Design. -- Suggest take a look if you donno whats the original design looklike.


Objective: To build a PC with a Powermac G5 case without removing all the unique features provided by the casing design and keep most of the original fans, internal structure intact.

Material Used: The case itself, Several Pc hardwares for testing, epoxy glues, tools and more...

Costs: As low as possible for the PC parts, upgrade for future. For case modding, i used all the original fans and most of the part. Roughly all were less than RM1k exclude the price of the 1.6ghz working G5 i get from wei. yes yes a working fine G5 i salvaged it



Current PC hardware specification,

Processor: Prescott P4 2.80GHZ (lend from someone) - RM0
Memory: Super Talent 2G x 1 Stick. - RM90
GPU: Galaxy 9600GT Low Power Edition from Cycom - RM280
Mobo: Gigabyte G31m-ES2L - RM170
PSU: Cheapo Gigabyte 320W -RM80
DvdBurner: Pioneer PATA Superdrive from the G5- RM0
HDD: WD 320GB SATAII- RM 150
Heatsink: CM TX3 - RM70

Total Costs: RM840 (which havent add all he costs for those custom wiring but still below 1k)


Future upgrade:

Processor: Core i5 8xx / i7 920
Mobo: Gigabyte M-ATX board
Ram: Corsair Dominator GT DDR3
GPU: ATI 4890 2GB version
HDD: 2x 1TB WD Black Caviar
Sound card: PCI-e x1 based soundcard
PSU: Gigabyte Odin 800W

Costs: ????

Suggestions:

Need some advise from everyone here for my few more slight issue.

1) Have an internal mono speaker would like to make it work with the mobo so that i can switch from diff channel , e,g, front panel jack, back port for external speaker and internal speaker.

2) PSU, as you can see the original psu was 1U height so that it could fit under the case and close with the metal plate covers it, other than switch the current psu into the 1U psu case or remake the metal plate?

3) Fans were a bit loud even running at 5V, anything below 5V is good but the fan wont start spinning without voltage below 5V but after it start spinning i can turn it down to 3-4v it won't giving any loud problem. Original the fan was control by the G5 motherboard and when turning on the mac, the fan will rev up for a sec then turn slow down. Unless i fine a way to make something make like that or i just have to turn the speed up and down manually.
Summary: Right now all fan running at 5V mode, i need to find a way to turn all the fan running at 3-4v after it start spins.

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This post has been edited by vailance: Aug 25 2009, 12:56 AM

Picture time:



The Casing itself.


After taken out all the things inside. Kinda took some time to take out all the fans and hdd bay at top of the case.


This is the original motherboard for the G5. Freaking big is it??




The divider for the logic board, divides the cpu area and the PCI slots area.


Fans, CP[U] heatsink cover....and my mini toolbox


The original Power supply unit. Long and heavy yes.


The HDD bay and Media bay fan/blower fan.


Removed the original mobo standoffs and going to glue it with epoxy glue at the proper position for m-atx board.





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This post has been edited by vailance: Aug 24 2009, 06:54 PM

Front panel


PCI - CPU divider.. need a cut to fit in the mobo.


Overview..


Inside view. All the parts inside were hold tight and solid for use.


Below u can see a fan controller that i get from forumer here niclasteoh, it control all the fan speed on the case 'MANUALLY'.. still..


Here clearly you can see the fan controller and thr front panel by the original G5 that i rewire all.


HDD bay that can fit 2 3.5inch HDD, PCI area, a 5 port usd pci card, 9600GT low power edition.


PCI bay fan and the superdrive ontop.

more picture coming soon... refer http://www.flickr.com/photos/vailance/sets...57621752638504/ for more pictures.



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I know... my camera sucks..Saving for DSLR now...
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This post has been edited by vailance: Aug 24 2009, 04:04 PM

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nice.

oh, great G5 mod. I should post mine...

where can get the case ?

i get it from wei from this forum. checked this morning sold the last unit already. You might search around other mac forums like mymug or ebay but shipping a bit pain.

I took 2 years waiting for this case...

kinda hard to find in MY. over western country its like ants everywhere u can find.. ebay usually overpriced + shipping.

WOW!!.. at last some 1 mod it at lyn...

good luck

hmm..look to cramped...is it ok to use dis case for normal pc?...

nice casing.....

good luck bro, n fast2 update here

No update since 25th August

tough space to work around there
nevertheless...keep it up bro

actually a few years ago a forumer called MacDaNife already modded the G5 HERE

pix are unfortunately gone...removed i think

- right now i tried to get the internal speaker working, guess im find one that use low voltage like the one used in laptop and put in there.
- planning to get some bigger sized heatsink that look like the original G5 heatsink, sincestill got some extra space left. Maybe a xigmatek HS will do ??
- also plan to get some hot swapable 2.5/3.5inch SATA case and put it inside so i can setup some RAID config.

any idea guys?

Once i get back to KL will take more clearer pictures since i got myself a new camera

Will update soon.

This post has been edited by vailance: Sep 19 2009, 09:26 PM

interesting approach. I've been modding one myself for the last 2 months. Have a worklog posted on another site. Might go ahead and start one here too.

nice casing bro... looking forward for ur project

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Added on October 8, 2009, 11:32 am maybe u also can contribute here




This post has been edited by kimimaro_kun: Oct 8 2009, 11:32 AM

Damn, you also got this case. I been searching it for a while & yet to get..
Have fun with it