[Build Log] Project Blueberry Apple G4

[Metalcored00d]

And something else that made me very happy: look who arrived over the weekend ^^

 

[Metalcored00d]

So the standoffs arrived from china:



I took off the motherboard heatsinks because I wanted to paint them blue.



I ordered Full Dip, a liquid vinyl solution which I thought was similar to Plasti Dip. The result was terrible. The only good thing is that it was easy to peel off.

For now I just sanded away the red paint and took out the plastic ROG logo.

 

[Metalcored00d]

And to solve the hole in the south bridge heatsink

 

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And I installed the CPU block today

 

[Stork]

I, too, have a GENE. See my signature block for my build description and installation procedures which will help you getting it running El Capitan.

 

[Metalcored00d]

I, too, have a GENE. See my signature block for my build description and installation procedures which will help you getting it running El Capitan.

That's great! I'm currently waiting for the final parts to arrive for the waterloop so I won't be able to test the system for quite some time I'm afraid :/. But I'll follow your write-up when I get to installing OSX . Thanks for the tip!

 

[Metalcored00d]

My new parts arrived today ^^



I then installed the pump on the reservoir:



The most important part, does it fit?



Well, it looks like it does ^^

 

[Metalcored00d]

So now that I've got all the necessary parts, time to prep the case

First I took of the side panel to make my life a bit easier. I bought a rivet gun so it should be no problem attaching it again afterwards

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I marked with a sharpie where I need to cut away a part of the locking mechanism. I need this to allow the upper radiator to sit there:



Saftey first ;-)

 

[Metalcored00d]

As I remember, the original standoffs are 8 mm.

You were right . The standoffs that I ordered were ok for the motherboard but were about 2mm too high to align the GPU properly... Oh well, I tried ;-). Back to aliexpress for the correct ones this time *facepalm*

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015...77.html?spm=2114.13010208.99999999.273.e2Tv6I

 

[Metalcored00d]

This is what it looks like so far^^.

I stripped off a little of the original standoffs to make them 8mm to see if everything would fit better now.