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- Aug 8, 2017
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- i5-6500
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- RX 570
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You might recognize me from the Mac Pro 1,1 Ultimate Budget Kludge Job.
Recently, I came into possession of some super awesome old Apple stuff while working at Experimax. I guy brought in several old Macs to see what they were worth to us for trade in or to make working or something. He wanted just a general family computer and some such.
Now the computers in question are PowerMacs which are beyond obsolete at this point in 2019. But I really couldn't help myself from just up and buying the stuff from him anyways. At least, some of it.
I got two Powermac G5's and a fantastically awesome 30" Cinema HD Display for $110. I consider that a pretty freakin' awesome deal, considering what the cost of a Cinema display is nowadays on the secondhand market. And Luckily for me, it works great! I love these things. They came out over ten years ago but still look amazing. And the picture quality is to my eyes, still really really good.
Of the Powermac's, one of them actually still works! It's a dual processor 2.3GHz model with 2x 500GB HDD's and 6GB of ram. Back in 2005 that would've been absolutely mental specs. And because it's in great working shape, it's been put into a special place with the rest of my old Macs. Sadly, the other one is having problems. It didn't come with any ram, but did power on. I suspected that maybe it was just a ram problem and swapped some ram from my good machine to the bad one, but still, no dice. For some reason the mobo doesn't like the ram. Aw well, I've heard of these things being picky with the types of ram you put in them. Or I'm just using the wrong ram. I dunno.
But this did get me thinking. What if I were to swap my old Mac Pro hackintosh case for this one? Wouldn't be terribly difficult would it? But of course, I'd set myself some more challenges than the previous time around.
- Keep everything in more or less the same place.
- Re-use the Mobo, CPU, Ram, and various fiddly bits from my Mac Pro mod.
- Leave the front panel untouched. We're gonna wire up that sucker.
- Replace the fans but use the original brackets.
- Use an extension from the back power connecter to the PSU so I can keep it on the floor.
- Keep the look somewhat original on the inside.
- Make it easily upgradable.
- Upgrade the PSU and GPU from my Mac Pro build. (I've been itching to ditch the GTX 1050 ti for an RX570 or 580 a while anyways, besides I'd really really like to upgrade from High Sierra at some point...)
And that's it so far. The current plan is to get my build working fully before actually cutting the case up. I feel better doing it that way for some reason. I still got my Mac Pro case to test everything in and get it working, even if it is ugly as sin right now. I guess that's why I call it the budget kludge.
Recently, I came into possession of some super awesome old Apple stuff while working at Experimax. I guy brought in several old Macs to see what they were worth to us for trade in or to make working or something. He wanted just a general family computer and some such.
Now the computers in question are PowerMacs which are beyond obsolete at this point in 2019. But I really couldn't help myself from just up and buying the stuff from him anyways. At least, some of it.
I got two Powermac G5's and a fantastically awesome 30" Cinema HD Display for $110. I consider that a pretty freakin' awesome deal, considering what the cost of a Cinema display is nowadays on the secondhand market. And Luckily for me, it works great! I love these things. They came out over ten years ago but still look amazing. And the picture quality is to my eyes, still really really good.
Of the Powermac's, one of them actually still works! It's a dual processor 2.3GHz model with 2x 500GB HDD's and 6GB of ram. Back in 2005 that would've been absolutely mental specs. And because it's in great working shape, it's been put into a special place with the rest of my old Macs. Sadly, the other one is having problems. It didn't come with any ram, but did power on. I suspected that maybe it was just a ram problem and swapped some ram from my good machine to the bad one, but still, no dice. For some reason the mobo doesn't like the ram. Aw well, I've heard of these things being picky with the types of ram you put in them. Or I'm just using the wrong ram. I dunno.
But this did get me thinking. What if I were to swap my old Mac Pro hackintosh case for this one? Wouldn't be terribly difficult would it? But of course, I'd set myself some more challenges than the previous time around.
- Keep everything in more or less the same place.
- Re-use the Mobo, CPU, Ram, and various fiddly bits from my Mac Pro mod.
- Leave the front panel untouched. We're gonna wire up that sucker.
- Replace the fans but use the original brackets.
- Use an extension from the back power connecter to the PSU so I can keep it on the floor.
- Keep the look somewhat original on the inside.
- Make it easily upgradable.
- Upgrade the PSU and GPU from my Mac Pro build. (I've been itching to ditch the GTX 1050 ti for an RX570 or 580 a while anyways, besides I'd really really like to upgrade from High Sierra at some point...)
And that's it so far. The current plan is to get my build working fully before actually cutting the case up. I feel better doing it that way for some reason. I still got my Mac Pro case to test everything in and get it working, even if it is ugly as sin right now. I guess that's why I call it the budget kludge.