Cyprien's Powermac g5 mod (with 2x200mm fan)

[cyprien1995]

Hello everybody,
As you can see, it's my first post so be indulgent
I've worked free three weeks on this project because mountain mods shipped my motherboard tray in the wrong country, but they were really helpful and at the end everything arrived. So I've now finished it since two weeks and I wanna show you some pics of it.

The specs are the ones listed on my profile so I won't add them here.
For this mod i used:
- a dremel tool
- a drill
- some other stuff
- a sheet of perforated aluminium to hold the 200mm fans
- mountain mod motherboard tray
- a second powermac g5 hd caddy
- and some other cool stuff...

So I hope the pics aren't too bad for you (some are made with my iphone 4 )...

 

[Gus]

More pictures of the back please.

 

[samisnake]

really like what youve done with the front 2x 200mm fans.
could you take some photos of how they (or the metal holding them) is mounted.

 

[cyprien1995]

OK, here a some more...

 

[cyprien1995]

Ok for the fans, I'll need to take out the hard drive caddy so you can see something (it isn't long to take you, you'll see why)
In 20 minutes, I'm back with the pics.

 

[cyprien1995]

Here they are,
as you can see, i cut the alu sheet in the wright size, and as it was very thin and too much flexible i cut also two 2mm large alu stripes that I welded to this sheet, I also bended these alu stripes and they are fixed with tape on the bottom Yeah I've used tape because it was a lot more easy to do it like this haha
I made the same with 2horizontal alu stripes, one on top and on on the bottom
I got the idea from there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEAZ2osc ... _embedded#! at 5min5sec
Did the same for the HD caddy (not to fix them together,see on the pics) and also added some "rubber feets" to reduce vibrations

 

[zpowell1]

Man that looks sharp! Great job on the front fans. I'm going to copy your method, if you dont mind!
Do the 200mm fans fit in the case well? I was going to use 120mm, but if 200's fit, I'll just get those instead.

Awesome job!

 

[Badaboum03]

did you order a mountainmods tray to switzerland?!

 

[cyprien1995]

Yeah, I ordered it to Switzerland, it wasn't cheap at all but at least it was the easiest way to do it (with this tray)...

For the 200mm fans: mine fits perfectly, if you put them as I did it should work with every 200mm fan.
In my case, there is about 5mm between the ground and the bottom fan and the other fan has 5mm left to the top, and between the two fans, there is about 7mm space left.
On each side there is about 1.5-2cm space left, so it should work with every 200fan.

Then, my fan is a bit special, it's only 2cm large (usualy it's 3cm) but it could also fit a 3cm large fan, I left enough space in between
I was about to take the Coolermaster Megaflow fans but I finaly took the ones of my old case (thermaltake element g).

 

[zpowell1]

Yeah, I ordered it to Switzerland, it wasn't cheap at all but at least it was the easiest way to do it (with this tray)...

For the 200mm fans: mine fits perfectly, if you put them as I did it should work with every 200mm fan.
In my case, there is about 5mm between the ground and the bottom fan and the other fan has 5mm left to the top, and between the two fans, there is about 7mm space left.
On each side there is about 1.5-2cm space left, so it should work with every 200fan.

Then, my fan is a bit special, it's only 2cm large (usualy it's 3cm) but it could also fit a 3cm large fan, I left enough space in between
I was about to take the Coolermaster Megaflow fans but I finaly took the ones of my old case (thermaltake element g).

Okay! Good to know! About how fast are your front fans spinning? I'm putting either 80mm x 2 or 92mm x 2 fans in the back of the case and I want the to keep up with those massive fans!