Skylake G4 Cube

[kevkranker]

I just finished hard part of my build. Stuffing the Gigabyte H170N-WIFI motherboard into the G4 Cube.

About my mac

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

I used basic tools to accomplish this.

Dremel, Hacksaw and lots of patience.

It is running great and is soo much faster then my 2015 Macbook w 1.3 Ghz and 8 Gb of ram.

Parts:
Power Mac G4
Gigabyte H170N-WIFI
Intel i5 6600 3.3 Ghz
Crucial 16GBx2 32GB Kit, DDR4 2133
Samsung MZHPU256HCGL 256GB AHCI M.2
Noctua Low-Profile Quiet CPU Cooler (NH-L9I)
2 x Noctua 60x25mm PWM A-Series Blades with AAO Frame, SSO2 Bearing Premium Cooling Fan NF-A6x25 PWM
BCM94352Z NGFF M.2 WiFi WLAN Bluetooth 4.0 802.11ac
Small 250W PSU from old case.

Here are some pictures of my build.

Cube Done

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Well almost

Gigabyte H170N WIFI

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Cube Bottom

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Cube Side 3

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Cube front bracket

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Cube Side 2

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Cube Side 1

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

Here are some performance results:

Geekbench3 Results

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

HW Monitor Idle

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

HW Monitor Maxed

• kevkranker
• Jun 28, 2016

 

[kevkranker]

Still left to do is get the touch sensor relocated to the other side of cube as the MB is interfering with it.

Create a mount for fan at the top of the case.

Wet sand and polish cube.

Buy another cube as it broke in shipping...

 

[Rangers1026]

Made an account just to say this is absolutely amazing!

How much time and money did this take?!

Also how did you get the G4 Cube to show as your System Identifier Picture?

Keep up the good work!

 

[kevkranker]

Thank you.

I used this as a guide to create the Hackintosh http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/g...kylake-h170n-wifi.178197/page-63#post-1280216 took about 3-4 hours to setup.

All of the components ended up costing about $700 (excluding the ssd hard drive as I had that kicking around my office)

Time wise it took the better part of a day to cut and fab the cube. I took my time so I didn't mess anything up.

To get the cube to show up as my System Identifier I did this http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/mod-about-this-mac.79536/

It's was well worth it. I do a lot of iOS and .Net development and this box crushes it. I did a hour long stress test last night and the hottest the CPU was getting was 68 deg C. The two Noctua 60x25mm where spinning fast but they are so quite. I will update with some photos of the fan placement in the case.


I wet sanded and polished the case last weekend.

 

[Rangers1026]

You still using the site?

 

[kevkranker]

Not really. Don't have the time to take on any projects. Busy at work. Thanks tho.

 

[AppleMann]

I saw you cut the motherboard down a bit, I have the exact same board.. Anyway to avoid breaking it? lol

Also what is the software you screenshot in the 2nd and 3rd image?
Thanks