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Check out FrostyTech.com for all things cooling. Based on their review and testing, seems like a closed loop liquid cooler like the CoolerMaster Nepton 280L would do the trick if you have room for the radiator: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2752

See: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/283562-not-your-ordinary-g5-rear-io-board-extending-the-zammykoo-legacy/

Update: Unfortunately the motherboard I bought on ebay for this project wouldn't boot; looks like I got ripped off. Oh well, bought a new GA-H97N-WIFI from B&H Photo for $117. It arrived, and works great. Installed the rear I/O board, again using JB Weld and arcade PCB feet: Used UniBeast...

Swapped the Apple drive bay fan for an 80mm Antec fan I had laying around. It was a 12v fan, I slowed it down using a resistor cable that had an come with an old Zalman cooler. Removed the blower fan; didn't seem necessary. Installed dust filters on my front 120mm fans: So it is almost...

My parts listing: Powermac G5 quad core 2.5ghz water cooled: Free Gigabyte H87A-WIFI ITX motherboard via eBay: $50 Intel i7 4790k 4ghz processor: $280 240gb OCZ SSD $50 2tb Seagate HD $70 16gb G.Skill Sniper DDR3 2400 PC3 19200 RAM $67 2x Antec Tri Cool 92mm fans $14 Dynex 520w power supply...

Nice build! Very similar to what I am doing, except I am going with my PSU mounted on the lower case instead of the upper drive bay. But I love the simple approach! :D

So years ago, a friend gave me a dead watercooled quad core 2.5 ghz, and the case had been living in my garage for far too long. So my goal for this is to build a budget i7 Hackintosh, without taking a dremel to the G5 case. The idea of spending a lot of money on kits that require you to cut...

I just installed Mavericks on my GA-EP35-DS3L; the one thing I had to do is add pmVersion=0 in the Chimera boot flags to avoid a kernal panic on startup. Thanks for the guide!

For a DAW, spend some money on a decent quiet case. For my last build I used a NZXT H2 case that has some insulation and a built in fan speed controller with 3 speed options. It still seems too noisy for a dedicated DAW; maybe because I used a Corsair H50 water cooler with dual push-pull fans on...

HDHomerun works great with EyeTV; I picked up a used 2 tuner version for $50 on ebay... I have seen new ones on sale for $70. It is a box that plugs into your router and distributes a digitized streaming channel over your network, EyeTV receives the video and handles the channel changing and DVR...

Looks like a great start! I am going to be following your thread closely, as I just obtained a dead quad G5 from a friend, and plan on modding it into a hackintosh case. I think the road you are going down seems like the best plan of attack. The cost of buying motherboard trays doesn't seem...

I recently used a NZXT H2 case; available in white with a stainless steel front or black. Has a built in fan speed controller on the top and a SATA drive dock built in the top. It is a big case, but for a full size ATX build with a big graphics card, it is a nice option: See...