#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE PC#
#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE SERIES#
#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE WINDOWS#

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming with EKWB waterblock.

Intel Core i7-6700K with Watercool waterblock.

Front IO with audio in and out, and two USB 3.0 and one Typ C port. Test fitting the new front IO with the lasercut aluminium. Backside (PSU-Mount, Back IO, and 120 mm exhaust fan) and bottom (2*140 mm radiator intake). Since I liked theВ tempered glass side panel of the In Win 805, this casemod should feature likewise a tempered glass side panel. The optical DVD should be replaced with my BluRay drive. Also there should be 280 mm radiators in the front and bottom. The back IO and the mainboard tray have to be changed to fit a в™љTX mainboard. The front USB 2.0 and firewire connectors arenвЂ™t up-to-date.

#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE SERIES#

Because the Apple Power Mac G5 series is now over 10 years old, many things have to be changed. Since a lot of the Apple Power Mac G5 cases on Ebay were in a poor condition or overpriced, it took a few weeks until I finally got my case. Considering my experience and knowledge I gained with the eGPU project, I thought, I could design a few lasercut aluminium pieces. But those kits didnвЂ™t made the Apple Power Mac G5 watercooling-ready. Those kits let you mount an ATX mainboard and use the back IOs. Most of them used professionally made, lasercut conversion kits available for around 100 в‚¬. A few people bought old Apple Power Mac G5 cases and changed them internally to fit ATX mainboards.

#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE PC#

But the price of over 170 в‚¬ at the time held me back from immediately buying the In Win 805.ДЄfter looking around in build logs on many forums, I found an other candidate for my new PC case. The support of the HAF 922 wasnвЂ™t satisfactory (A 240 mm in the top and 120 mm radiator in the back). But since my new PC should have watercooling, the support for radiators bigger radiators (A 360 mm in the front and 120 mm radiator in the back) could potentially compensate for that. I missed the option for an optical drive. I also realized that the In Win 805 wasnвЂ™t the perfect PC case. So one must evaluate, which objectives are more important. And cheap doesnвЂ™t go with any of the others. But often powerful PCs require big, noisy air coolers. A quiet, good-looking, powerful and cheap PC is the vision of every PC owner. Over this time I thought what features of a PC would be important for me. Since I was busy with work for my bachelor thesis, the вЂњNew PCвЂќ-project was paused until June. The simple and high-quality design in combination with the tempered glass side panel made me want to build a new PC in this case. But overall it was okay, until I saw the In Win 805 last winter. The lack of USB 3.0 ports in the front was annoying for using fast USB storage media. First of all the build quality of the old case was not up to todayвЂ™s standards. At that time I liked the design, but a few reasons lead to a wish for a new case. Over the last six years I had the Cooler Master HAF 922 computer case. At least I took many photos over this period of time to document its progress.

But whenever I found time, I rather continued the casemod instead of writing here. Originally I wanted to do a build log over this time to show its progress. I would be very interested to know your opinion or some comments about myВ project.This project took many weekends over this summer. Connecting everything with screws and putting the desk on top of the Macs. That was necessary because the Powermacs alone would be not high enough. So i bought a nice one and mounted a second layer underneath the upper desk. Well I knew that I want a top desk made out of wood.

#APPLE G5 CASE FURNITURE WINDOWS#

And now imagine a windows PC which is 10 years old :) The new PowerMacs even worked! Think about that, I mean they are over 10 years old. Well the first two got damaged by the transport company so I had to get some new cases by car.

So I decided two buy two of them and I found some with minimal scratches in the internet. About a year ago I read an article aboutВ a german designer who up cycled old Apple G5Вґs to beautiful furniture.В Then I saw that you can get the G5Вґs for under 50 euro in Germany. For my new apartment I needed a new table and I always thought about making a custom one out of Macs.

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