G5 Mod Confirm bulid...HD and fan question?

[rocksideup]

Hi everyone...I'm working on a g5 mod, hopefully it should be ready in a few more day/nights...I'm going to have to remove most of the upper tray to get the motherboard to fit and since I have the type of g5 case with the power supply on the bottom.

These are my questions...

I'm cutting through part of the upper tray to make room for the motherboard...

Will I be able to attach the HD even though i don't have the upper tray?

Do I need additional fans?


This is what's going inside

mountain mods motherboard tray with 2x 80mm exhausts

Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA

GIGABYTE GV-R687OC-1GD Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card with Eyefinity

GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B

HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

CORSAIR Builder Series CX600 V2 600W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

 

[hardmantosh]

Most of us with g5 cases mount our hdd's up front below tray;;

fans is up to you and usage but at least one good fan blowing on hdd's will be fine;;

 

[rocksideup]

can you specify what do you mean by that in the hdd up in front?

 

[hardmantosh]

Didn't you get my return PM...as I said, if you have same case as me in the pic on left, most of us make a mount or new HDD cradle ,and mount it under CD/DVD drive/under the tray..

 

[eelhead]

See here

 

[hardmantosh]

thanks::::eelhead;;

 

[rocksideup]

all thank you both, that makes so much sense, but I broke that piece when I was taking it out... arg...now i need to figure out a creative solve... do you think that is something I could buy online?

 

[hardmantosh]

wreck an old case or make one out of alloy and rivet together ..tin plate...get creative and make something nice with two plates shaped like X's..whatever you want.

 

[ModBot Jr]

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