Third Iteration (Final Build):
Varnished with the spray gun and compressed air. Even on the inside.
DVD-Drive installed.
2,5” to 3,5” adapter to put an SSD into the Apple HDD Caddy. Later even three SSDs in RAID5.
BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3. One of the biggest and most powerful Air-coolers on the market. These PowerMac cases can virtually fit any cooler - no matter how big.
It also works out with the Aluminium coolers on the ram. Very lucky.
Also: Always be grounded when handling electronic components.
Still plenty of space left between door and cooler.
The fan bracket is fitted with two NoiseBlocker 92mm fans.
The empty Apple-PSU housing before modding.
See the previous posts for details of the PSU-modding
New NoiseBlocker Fans (BlackSilent Fan XR-1 - 60mm)
Finished second iteration Build with new supermicro PSU in the original housing.
GTX 1050Ti
DVD drive
3x1TB SSD RAID5
Most cable-management can be done under the mainboard.
Super-silent Air-cooling. 8 fans in total. All run near minimum speed.
The back of the modded Case.
This one has antennas build in and a C19 power-plug.
The mainboard I/O is slightly set back from the case.
Everything is accessible.
Only the Ethernet-cable can be a bit tricky to remove on this particular build. Ethernet cables have this little barb on it. You need to press it down before you can get the cable out. The barb is hard to press because everything is recessed a bit. For a desktop computer this is totally fine. Other mainboards have the Ethernet port in a different position (not on the very top), so they will not have this “problem”.
The barb is easily accessible when opening the door of the case and removing the back-fan bracket (that is clamped in).
The LAN-cable will only be plugged in once, so it is fine. The machine will not be moved to a different room very often.
No more dents or stains on the case. Freshly varnished.
No more Apple-Logo on the side after painting. Just a clean silver look.
That’s it for this build. I learned a lot and could improve the quality of all other barebones. Especially PSU-wise, as you can read in the first posts (page 1 & 2).