How to fit PC in a G5 PowerMac enclosure :> Options

[nervouschimp]

My skate just arrived, so I slapped it on my Ghetto-5:

[SticMAC™]

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


PLEASE tell me it's a JOKE!?

That's like painting your Harley1475 Pastel Blue with Pink tassles!
SticMAN

[nervouschimp]

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
PLEASE tell me it's a JOKE!?

That's like painting your Harley1475 Pastel Blue with Pink tassles!
SticMAN

Huh? My harley IS pastel blue... but seriously, it's pretty minimal. I thought it was decent looking, and that's why I bought it, but taste is purely subjective. It's obvious that you hate it.

[HacOSXuser]

not the biggest fan either.

[teknojunkie]

do that is the nicest, sickest thing i have seen nice props. nice job btw

[nervouschimp]

do that is the nicest, sickest thing i have seen nice props. nice job btw

Yay! Someone other than myself likes the G5 skate! It was part of the plan all along, guess I should have warned you guys I'd be totally ruining my already mod from the beginning


.... but it was the last one.... doesn't that make it a rare and precious collectors item?

oh well, I still dig it. I'm going to get the G5 roof next just for the reactions.....

[Baudouin]

I love it nervouschimp.
I am busy to make myself a roof with a mesh pannel. I lowered the bottominside of my G5 case to include the pump and PSU . Still to add some piece of mesh pannel to hide the expansion bay.

Edit 26/08/08

Last version of the lowered bottom case :

[teknojunkie]

Since my motherboard is a Full atx its harder for using the original G5 psu so I made this diagram to help me and others. If you have any other ideas please let me know

 G5_PSU.jpg ( 119.65K ) Number of downloads: 162

[HacOSXuser]

ehh after some looks its not tooooo bad. idk how good the roof will look. but its all about your opinion. your the one who has to look at it haha

[nervouschimp]

More hardware is on the way. I had 2 problems to solve: the onboard sound on the P5E WS Pro is absolute garbage, and 2 hard drive bays is just not going to cut it. So I ordered a few parts:


Turtle Beach Riviera PCI
The C-media chipset on this card is supposed to have working Leopard drivers for output only, originally put together by dogbert.


2 Icy Dock Trays
Since I am going with Icy Dock all around, a few extra of these trays will be good.


Icy Dock portible eSATA
This is a nice lil eSATA portable enclosure, and the HDD trays are interchangeable with the big quad-bay below, allowing me to pop out any drive and take it with me. If someone made something like this for the Mac Pro, that allowed the Mac Pro sleds to be quickly slipped into a portable enclosure, I think they might sell a few.


Icy Dock Quad eSATA
IMO, this is attractive enough to put next to a G5. It looks like it's using the same materials as the Mac Mini: white acrylic and aluminum. It uses 4 separate eSATA connections (one dedicated per drive), which is exactly what I was looking for. I did not want 4 separate eSATA boxes, each with it's own power-brick, that would suck. Anyway, after careful thought I decided against burying more HDDs inside Ghetto-5, and went with the Icy Dock system. Hard drives are cheap enough to treat like zip-drives now, and this makes it easy. Oh, and I prefer that the raid functions are not built in. The box should be transparent to my motherboard/pci-x card. I will get an Areca card soon when I am ready for raid.


Griffin iMic
The iMic will be installed internally, and connected to the line-in port on the back of the G5. I will try to position it where I can easily access the line/mic toggle if I ever needed mic input(something the G5 couldn't do), but I have a decent USB headset, so it will prolly always stay on line level input mode. For now I am planning to run the rear analog line-out off the turtle beach card, but if the output of the iMic is decent, I may use it for the rear-analogue, and use the stereo optical out on the turtle beach for my rear optical port.


4-port eSATA PCI-bracket
This bracket is awesome, because not only does it put 4 esata on 1 PCI bracket, but it allows you to use the cable length that is appropriate for any application, or long cables in my case. For now I will be running the unused sata ports on the motherboard to this bracket.

I'll post photos/first impressions when this stuff arrives.

PS. Yeah, yeah, attaching an Icy Dock is like painting your harley pastel blue with tassels on the handlebars.

[teknojunkie]

nice, yeah the icy dock looks pretty nice, all you need after this is a EFI-X usb adapter.

[Baudouin]

Very nice stuff. Apple Design influence can be good. Nice choice nervouschimp.

[frostycomputer]

nervouschimp, what's your source for all these jumper cables?

[nervouschimp]

nervouschimp, what's your source for all these jumper cables?

frontx
ebay
datapro.net

[nervouschimp]

Got the sound installed:

I'm really sensitive to feedback and hum, and so is the iMic, so I shielded the iMic and excess analog wire with metal tape.

The turtle beach is also in, and working great.

Man, this case is stuffed. The only available slot is the PCI-X, and it will get filled soon too.

I am still craving more clarity than either of these products can deliver, and I'm dreaming of an Apogee Duet....

[nervouschimp]

And the Icy Dock stuff is pretty cool, but my eSATA bracket doesn't arrive til monday, so I just tested the portable enclosure.

[Baudouin]

That's a beauty this Icy Dock,nervouschimp, really Apple minded. Very nice choice.
Btw, I forgot to ask something, which kind of cable are you using to get the video connector at the back of the case ? An extended DVI to DVI ? Which label ?

[nervouschimp]

That's a beauty this Icy Dock,nervouschimp, really Apple minded. Very nice choice.
Btw, I forgot to ask something, which kind of cable are you using to get the video connector at the back of the case ? An extended DVI to DVI ? Which label ?

Thanks, Baudouin, and the DVI cables came from:

datapro.net

I've decided to go with 2 velociraptors in raid 0 for my boot volume, powered by an Areca PCI-X card with a 1 terabyte disk for time machine. I'll post an update when the parts arrive. This should just about complete my project.

[Baudouin]

Thanks, Baudouin, and the DVI cables came from:

datapro.net

I've decided to go with 2 velociraptors in raid 0 for my boot volume, powered by an Areca PCI-X card with a 1 terabyte disk for time machine. I'll post an update when the parts arrive. This should just about complete my project.

Thanks for the answer. Have you any idea what's the budget you needed to build your super machine ? Just curious .

[nervouschimp]

Thanks for the answer. Have you any idea what's the budget you needed to build your super machine ? Just curious .

Lets just say that it comes in at less than the base, ridiculous, Mac Pro model that ships with only 2gigs of ram, a slow 320gig hard drive, and a crap radeon 2600, but some of my stuff was open box, and waiting for deals. And you can't put a price tag on personal time, it's incredibly valuable.