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- Oct 19, 2018
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- Gigabyte Z77X D3H
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- i5 358k
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- Nvidia 690 Nvdia 1080ti F
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Always loved the G4 Quicksliver case and is door access... and I've ghosted these forums on and off for a decade or so making my first laptop hackintosh back in 2008 but now I want a desktop. So I finally went out and snagged a G4 Quick silver in fairly good condition. My goal is to do as little visible modding of the case as possible (externally) and internally do my best to make a neat layout using custom cables, I/O ports and front USB / audio where necessary I'll make custom mounts or brackets with a 3D printer.
I'm going to use some of the ideas and mods that have been display here previously (particularly 'standing on the shoulders of giants' when it comes to the front power and LEDs) - I'll have to dig up and credit them as I go through.
However I annoyingly recently had my main PC die and built a new PC in a hurry .. and while I had thought I was buying Hackintosh friendly parts I didn't buy thinking of this case .. so I have a full size ATX which won't fit a AIO cooler which won't fit, tall RGB ram again a tight fit.. and I sold and updated my 1080 to a 2080 which has no drivers in OSX -DOH!
So the final hardware might be a bit of a ways off and this build log will be quite slow. I'd be more motivated if I could find a decent mATX board with on-board Thunderbolt 3 though... doesn't seem to exist.
So if I don't have the hardware what am I going to do? Well naturally I got the case and immediately stripped it down to parts excitedly, then neatly piled them in a corner for several months. I have a few odds and ends laying around such as a surrogate mATX board I can use for the position of mounts, and this G4 will likely have a quite a few parts go through her before I'm done.
So lets start with the Power Brick...
I'm going to use some of the ideas and mods that have been display here previously (particularly 'standing on the shoulders of giants' when it comes to the front power and LEDs) - I'll have to dig up and credit them as I go through.
However I annoyingly recently had my main PC die and built a new PC in a hurry .. and while I had thought I was buying Hackintosh friendly parts I didn't buy thinking of this case .. so I have a full size ATX which won't fit a AIO cooler which won't fit, tall RGB ram again a tight fit.. and I sold and updated my 1080 to a 2080 which has no drivers in OSX -DOH!
So the final hardware might be a bit of a ways off and this build log will be quite slow. I'd be more motivated if I could find a decent mATX board with on-board Thunderbolt 3 though... doesn't seem to exist.
So if I don't have the hardware what am I going to do? Well naturally I got the case and immediately stripped it down to parts excitedly, then neatly piled them in a corner for several months. I have a few odds and ends laying around such as a surrogate mATX board I can use for the position of mounts, and this G4 will likely have a quite a few parts go through her before I'm done.
So lets start with the Power Brick...
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