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Hello, This week I got all my part for my PC (sorry) and hopefully the next few weeks I will finish my MacPro based case mod. I joined to share my experience and ideas and also my struggles, and I hope all will come in the end good I will built something cool. On the way I am 100% sure I will...

02/03/2020 Introduction: I will start by saying admitting I have done a G5 conversion before, about 8 years ago, I was generally unimpressed with the result and it didn't become a permanent feature of my desk as it represented to many shortcuts and quite a bit of impatience on my part. Here...

I wanted to push watercooling to the most. Silent. Level. possible. While gaming and also for working. Quite a challenge and a lot to learn. Thoughts on water-cooling: It always depends on the use-case if water-cooling is more silent than air-cooling. My personal experience: Air-cooling is...

So, I am officially crazy... I bought 26 Powermacs (G5) And I modded them ALL They are now ready for ATX and mATX Mainboards… But why 26? Did I mention I was crazy?! (And they were only sold together…) I modded G5 Cases before – They kind of became my passion. This time I wanted everything...

Ever since I saw the G5 and Mac Pro tower design, I really wanted to have one. Unfortunately, A good Mac Pro is still very expensive so I decided to build my own using a PowerMac G5 case. Parts that I plan on using: PSU: Corsair SF450 450W (As it has a small form factor which might let me use...

Hey all. Just got my first G5! It's the 2004 dual 2.0 ghz model with a Nvidia 5200 64mb 1.5 GB RAM I plan on upgrading the RAM to it's full 8 GB And i'm thinking of getting a Nvidia 7800, as i heard the card is compatabile with both Mac and PC, correct? Also, i'm thinking of perhaps...

Hello everybody! My parents are working with Macs for a long time now and I have 3 old Power Macs G4. For this summer, i wanted a project to work on so I decided to mod one of the G4s just for fun. In this thread, I will update my experience and progress for this awesome mod. I decided to go...

Hello all, first post here. First attempt at building ANY computer. I've been a professional mac guy for 20+ years though. Handy in the shop, I have lots of tools. What I don't have is a handle on things that long time builders probably know in their sleep: how to determine cooling needs. I'm...

Hi Guys, In the last couple of months I have been reading a lot on the forum to prepare myself for my first Hackintosh build and also waiting for the Skylake support. I have no experience what soever with building a hackintosh so it's gonna be a challenge... My wish is to have a silent build...

Hi there! My name is FezClone, and I was recently gifted a PowerMac G5 from around 2003. I turned it on and.... Nothing. It was $20 though. So, with an extremely heavy paperweight, I thought to myself.. I could make this a stupidly cool case. A complete overkill monstrosity of a build. So...

I just finished my first mod using an case of Power Mac G4 model Sawtooth. Bought one from about U$40 here in Brazil. Shipped already free of motherboard, drives and power source. 8 bucks for shipping and that's all for the case. Good bargain in my opinion. Here is a victim's picture before...

Hello everyone! At last I started my very first hackintosh project. I've had two PowerMac G5 Dual's laying around for so long and always wanted to modify the case as a hackintosh. This is my first case mod also. I needed a new computer really bad. My Macbook Pro from 2007 have really seen it's...

Im not good at modifying cases so here is my take on the pc to powermac mod. First off all i dont liek the idea of cutting anything on the case, like to keep everything intact so taken everyhing out trying to decide how the hell anything will go in the case. Also i was moving my existing...

Hi everyone! I have a PowerMac G5 with the 2x2GHz PowerPC G5, Ram-10Gb, Hard drive-500Gb and Leopard OSx. My question is: Can I upgrade my Mac to Mavericks? If not, can I do hackintosh? Thanks!

Dear All, I built my first hack over a year ago and so far it has been very stable: thanks to all the help I got at TonyMac - and by following their recommended parts list. Great experience. I now want to try something more unconventional. I have an old PowerMac 8600 sitting at home -...

Hello all This is my second post about my now oldish PowerMac which has gone through various stages over the last 5 years of so. I've tried different configurations before settling for this one, which I'm very pleased about and that I thought I would share. I wanted it to be all...

Hello my name is David. My first computer ever was a Yosemite Powermac G3. It had a whopping 350MHz G3 processor, 1/2 gig of RAM, a Rage 128 GL and 40 GB hard drive. I got this upgraded computer in 2003 for christmas and was absolutely fascinated by it and its OS X 10.3 operating system. That...

Hey guys, I am going to receive a used Powermac G4 MDD today, and I've been thinking about modding it - I have a pretty old mATX board around, 2 Gig's of RAM and 500GB 7200rpm hard drive anyways, I have heard that there's a problem with placing PCI-e cards in the MDD model and I'm not going to...

I have many spare Powermacs lying around– G3s, G4s, etc., so I decided to try my hand at stuffing PC guts into one of the cases. I’d originally planned on using an AGP G4, but then realised the process would be much easier with a G3 Yosemite case. I just happened to have one, but it is not...

Hello, i was looking to mod a power mac g5 the case i found has nothing in it not even a side panel but i ordered that so i have just an empty case. I was wondering what tools are need to mod this case to be compatible with modern atx motherboards. And for anyone else who has done this this...