@macdanife
sweet mod mac.....good mod....wanna see more of this, cheers

The WorkRig is so named because it resides at my office, hence at work. Truth be told, I rarely do any "real" work on it. Obviously, the power is for gaming... . Am presently replaying FarCry which is a totally different experience @ 1920x1200 4xAA/4xAF.

Don't want to talk too much about the job. Suffice to say, there's a lot of waiting around required, so the WorkRig provides entertainment for the slow periods.

sorry if i missed reading some of your writings, but are u gonna build a new system from scratch or just transplant some from your other systems?

Haven't decided. Actually I was hoping to delay the choice of mobo to allow for the crossfire based mobos to surface but... need a mobo in order to make the backplate and see how the PCI slots line up... No Fatality available so went with another DFI. Same goes for GPU. I'll probably take one (or both) of the 7800GTXes into this rig. Or if the X1800xt cards become available... who knows...

No firm plans to components as yet. Will take things as they go along...

And post em here of course.

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This post has been edited by GoldenHawk: Oct 13 2005, 09:55 AM

it'll be sweet to see you run some aqua computer cooling stuff in the rig man... very sleek design they have but then again, whatever u do, i'm sure it'll be awesome with such a great casing to build upon.

Agreed... Water cooling this rig would be ideal (and there's the space for the hardware too..) Trouble is, hard to find the components that I would like to use, for example:



Have cut the upper tray with the dremel. Sparks were flying today...

Mac

how much $$$ are you willing to put into this machine?

As little as possible...

@macdanife
as little as possible , looks like its gonna cost a alot already, Y dun u try to get a X1800XT, be the 1st to own them

i'm typing this in so i can follow this thread easier

and so as not to let mods marah me, i'd say

great job. the G5 casing itself is a masterpiece already, and i can't wait to see ur finished project

Finally. took the dremel to metal. Cut the top tray case.

Preparation is everything. Measure many times. Mark and recheck. Cut only once.

Workplace safety: Keep the workarea neat. Isolate your working area and minimize dust contamination. Facemask, protective eye and handwear are essential. In order to keep the tray steady while cutting I supported the back with a folded towel (wrapped with a paper so won't have to clean it later). In order to keep the aluminum dust off the insides of the case, the area was isolated with a plastic sheet.



With that done, used the dremel with the 32mm (1mm thick) cutting wheel. As the insides of the case are hard to reach, used the Dremel Flexishaft. My advice to cutting aluminum: Use a high rotation speed BUT cut shallow and use repeated bites rather than a continuous cutting action. Your hand grip is important. Use a golf grip (with both hands) as there is significant kick when you begin to cut. If the dremel goes out of the groove, an unsightly burr would result. Lots of sparks. Protect hands with gloves, protect eyes with plastic non shatter glasses.



The end result after cutting and deburring (Used a 3.2mm Shank no.8175) was quite neat even if I say so myself...

With the cutting done, it was time to see if the mobo would fit. Additionally I needed to measure where the mobo would be positioned in order to mark the drill points to mount the acrylic mobo backplate.

Took the 7800GTX cards out of the workrig and marked out the mobo position required for the PCIe cards to line up correctly with the G5 case slots.



Replaced the Apple Harddrive bay and Top bay seperator/fan holder in order to see how all the parts fit.



Realized that part of the plastics of the drive bay and separator will get in the way of the motherboard.



Marked these areas for cutting. Got to get the Dremel out again....

Now a Dry Fit to see how if all the components will sit where I plan them to go.

Essentially the principle is this: Divide the case into Four Compartments.

The top compartment is already there. Here reside the drives: Optical and harddrives. Am considering mounting a floppy too, but this is not essential. This is a low heat-generating compartment so could do with a small, slow fan for cooling

The second compartment will house the 7800GTX SLi config. This is a warm compartment and will be cooled by a 12cm Fan mounted close to the cards for maximal cooling. It will be separated from the third compartment by a sheet of clear acrylic cut to shape to fit both the mobo and the Apple acrylic panel.

The third compartment will house the processor and the RAM. The processor will be cooled by a Coolermaster Aquagate Mini (Cheapest I could find: RM250 @ Cycom, LYP).



I like this cooler. It's simplicity (no reservoir and integrated pump/heatsink) makes it an elegant cooling solution. The radiator will NOT be in this compartment.

The fourth compartment at the base of the G5 case and separated from it by another acrylic panel will house the PSU and the Aquagate mini radiator.



The radiator has a coolermaster 8cm Aluminum fan (RM40 @ Robyncom, LYP) cooling it.



The PSU already has fans in a push pull position and will be mounted towards the front of the case. I realize that I will be blowing hot air onto my radiator (from the PSU) but as I do not have sufficient space to place the PSU at the rear of the case (it will hit the RAM cards), I do not have much of a choice...



So once I cut the acrylic into shape, I will have four compartments dividing the G5 Case into four thermal zones, with fans of corresponding speed to cool each compartment.



Well, that's the plan anyways...

Pictures perhaps explain things better...

wow cool

nice progress.. do u telling us the weight of the case when u got it? looks quite heavy
btw i notice that u have a dinovo.. i might wanna get the kb only with the cordless desktop set and replace my old mx duo kb.. just wanna know how's gaming with the dinovo kb? it looks pretty delicate man, am afraid that they keys will jump out or get smashed with heavy use XD

so you just gonna put that psu like that?

Nice,anyway Good Job

It's a DRY FIT. Meaning I still have a lot of work that I have not done. I am just checking to see if the components fit where they are supposed to be. I've not done the backplate for the mobo, the backplate for the PSU, the compartment separators, the fan mounts, the list continues...

...that's why it's a worklog

Nice modder and nice picture. My friend said the price for casing is around RM700-800.