Minihack G4 Cube - How I think Apple might have done it.....

[Haxx187]

Great work mate. keep up the mods. excellent work

 

[dirtwegy]

That's a good cube, i thought zotac itx was ivy bridge, yet you've paired it with a sandy bridge cpu, is it ok? I'v a spare 2500k cpu and wanting to get an itx, so i'd be ok to pair it, dirtwegy.

 

[minihack]

Thanks!
Yes, a Sandy and Ivy mix is not really a problem. It is just important that the correct framebuffer gets loaded. That can be done with either 2 kext edits (one to the IntelCapri framebuffer kext to prevent it from loading and the other to the sandy bridge framebuffer kext to tell that one it needs to load) OR a small DSDT patch. You can find details by looking up my build thread for this one in the User Build section.
I now have an i7 3770K in the same case and with the same board (but it is now water cooled....).

 

[Big-L]

Dude, great work again! Your posts gave me great inspiration so far. Especially the use of a Pico-PSU is something I want to have for one of my next builds (which may be some selfmade housing inspired by the Cube). Could you explain a little closer how you managed the measurement of power consumption? You use a specialised measuring equipment? My idea would be to measure the current (voltage is given to be known) and calculate the power consumption with P = U * I, but I am not so comfortable with fiddling around the high voltage wires ...

 

[minihack]

Dude, great work again! Your posts gave me great inspiration so far. Especially the use of a Pico-PSU is something I want to have for one of my next builds (which may be some selfmade housing inspired by the Cube). Could you explain a little closer how you managed the measurement of power consumption? You use a specialised measuring equipment? My idea would be to measure the current (voltage is given to be known) and calculate the power consumption with P = U * I, but I am not so comfortable with fiddling around the high voltage wires ...

Thanks. Power measurement is just done at the socket. You can buy a gadget that you plug into the power outlet and then plug your mains plug into that and it gives you the total power consumption. In the US I think they call them a Watt-O-meter or something similar. Can't remember what mine is called, but you get the drift.

When thinking about how much power is consumed by the individual components then you just check the technical spec.s

 

[Big-L]

Ah, yes - I know those devices. I was just thinking too complicated
I'll go and get one of these. Thanx!