My G5 Hack

[SiBarber]

Just thought I would add my two peneth worth to the G5 case modding tread.

I managed to purchase 2 G5's on Ebay from a guy not far from me for 22 quid. 1 of them has a few scratches on the side and the other is pretty tidy. The tidy on happens to be a late 2005 G5 and the other is an older on so I went with the late 2005 one.

Unfortunately I never got round to taking any pictures of the build, which isn't like me at all, but have got a couple of the nearly complete job.

Firstly, parts:

• 1 Powermac G5 (late 2005)
• 1 laserhive Original mATX kit http://www.thelaserhive.com/kits/powermac-g5-conversion-products/g5-matx-original-kit/ I asked David (nice guy by the way) if he could supply the full ATX motherboard tray instead of mATX, which he did.
• Gigabyte H97-d3h (full ATX)
• Intel i5 4590
• 1 x 8gb ddr3
• EVGA Geforce 650 GTX
• Samsung Evo 850 240gb SSD (OSX install)
• 1 Toshiba 2TB DT01ACA200 Sata HDD (Storage)
• 650w Power Supply (can't remember make)
• 4 Arctic F9 case fans
• 1 Arctic F8 case fan
• 2 Gellid Silent 6 case fans for PSU

After 2 weeks of head scratching building, dismantling and rebuilding, dismantling, cutting them more rebuilding, here she is:



I have El Capitan 10.11.3 installed and running pretty sweet. I did upgrade to 11.4, but kept getting Finder crashes. I do have iMessage and FaceTime working for the other 2 accounts on the system, but mine Id won't work. Apple in process of fault finding.

I have ordered a piece of perspex to make a back plate to attach a hard drive bracket to mount on the fixed side panel just to the side of the front power switch. I will post my progress with that when complete. As soon as that is done the clear plastic cover can go back in and I will be made up.

Si

 

[SiBarber]

Bit of an update.

All my bits arrived to start putting my HDD mount together.

1 x A4 size piece of perspex 5mm thick
1 pair of HDD brackets
4 flat head 7mm 6-32 unc screws

I cut the perspex into two so I have 2 x A5 size pieces. Only need 1.



I then positioned it into the case and marked off where I needed to drill the holes to go over some of the existing stand offs that were still there



Drilled the holes, mounted the bracket and countersunk the heads on the back. Mounted the HDD to the bracket. The mounted the whole thing into the case.

And now the finished result. Well not fully finished, still got some other little bits to do.