fitted the cooler to my radeon 4870x2 tonight, man this scares me. its one expensive, long card and with this cooler, it bends...... makes me shiver!

not long now!! when i get my pump mount, after the missus decided to throw my initial one away, i can actually start to fill the loop and get leak testing!!! eeek!

I've also recently purchased a G5 case on ebay which is in really good condition. I've started modding it Nervouschimp 'style but have made some significant changes to the layout. I'm uploading pics to photobucket and will update once up.

I want more pics!!! Amazing work.Pro+ Level.Keep on posting them.

looks good mate!! im intrigued to know what you mean by "like Nervouschimp but different...."

@ (XS)solid.

Any news on those PCBs matey?

Ok, 5 pcbs done in total, 2 cable sets.

But back to my own project
Got the BlackIce 184 GTX today, that's one fat rad.

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Need to little improve that mounting, not the most secure there is.
Yes that rad will come over the first pci/pcie slot, worry not in my mobo pci-e x16 slot is at second place, that is just dead dummy board

looks good man! yeh theres some thickness on the radiator. how many you gonna be having in your system?

nice keyboard

you want paying for one of those PCBs?

Patience my friend :]
I'll let you know and rest of you when i've these ready (i'll try to ship these out at once).

sorry, i dont mean to sound impatient. well im not in any major rush. i cant finish my case until i get a mount from germany, as nobody in the UK holds stock of it, and thats gonna take two weeks! I'm also waiting on cables from datapro over the pond, so thats looking at 6weeks aswell! i can live without the cables though, but i need that mount!

im interested in your mod xs! what layout are you planning? the other forum is down so i cant see your posts there.

Thanks for the warm comments
By "Nervouschimp style" I meant that I modded my case in a similar fashion to his.
I've received cables and epoxied them into place (ethernet, usb, firewire, etc) and built my system in. I'm trying to get osx86 (specifically iDeneb 10.5.6) onto the MSI X58 board with raid0 (on the ich10r chipset.) So far I've created the array and am installing, but it reboots at startup :/ Anyway, uploading pics now.

K! They're up!

make sure that you are booting with busratio=20 in your kernel flags. also boot with -v and let me know what error it either hangs on or reboots on (if your quick enough ). i have the gigabyte i7 board but hopefully i should be able to lend you a hand!

also pics are looking good. i need to upload my latest pics but my internet sucks big time!

good luck & keep posting!

(xs)solid, do you have the pinout for the ethernet, and which order the firewire pinout is?

Nice! Just let me know when you are ready. Thanks Again!




Nice Job. Love the Lighting of the Photos, Hope my Fan Diagrams helped out as well.

teknojunkie,

Please, please (I'm begging) do not quote images (ever!).

Someone had to do it

hey... I couldn't leave it blank... plus, it wasn't all of them. I admit I have no idea why i did that, yes someone had to say that lool, people qoute the whole gallery im like damn...

anybody feel like lending a hand with wiring up the g5 motherboard ports?

first off, how much should i cut off? i cant use the holes that you have used solid, as i have connectors covering them. so there are holes further back where they will line up with the indents in my case for the stand-offs. my question is, do you have to remove most of the board to make the ports work?

second. i cannot find a pinout for the ethernet anywhere (hint hint xs solid lol) and thanks to the pinouts posted a couple of pages back by pirloui (sorry if the spelling is wrong) i have usb, and firewire, however there is not indication of which is pin 1 on the firewire.

im not connecting audio up, as im using 5.1 from my soundblaster audigy 2

thanks for any help!

What comes to ethernet, you need to tear it open a bit
Remove that black box inside the back of that connector and everything ins inside it. then there should be only one pcb left and there you can connect ethernet cables directly.

Like in this pic: http://s0lid.bx.fi/kuva/powermac/DSC_0328.JPG?size=1280x1024
And in my case there were even less left of that pcb than shown in that pic

all my pics of this project are here: http://s0lid.bx.fi/selaa/powermac/

so once you have ripped it open, that single pcb which is left, is the standard ethernet pinout?

so does it not matter if i cut the mobo further back? none of whats still left on will affect me using the ports?

Yup, as you can see from my pic =)

Well if you mean the powermacs orig mobo, i don't see no reason it wouldn't...

thanks for the help!

can i just solder directly to the back of the powermac board then (except for the ethernet)?

Yep, testing those boards atm, front usb don't work. Yet...
Need to check are the connections done rigth.
E: ah nothing serious :]
Cable were backwards

thats good news!

i, myself wasnt meaning your front panel boards. can i solder directly to the back of the old g5 motherboard, or is there something else i have to do prior to soldering?

K, I made some progress yesterday, and I've included a pic of the power supply inside.

K, Progress pics are up on Bit-tech
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=166579

nice choice of project name.....

Oh, I did not even notice. I sincerely apologize and will re-name at once. How's Apple i7?

Never mind... I have an awesome and definitely not used name

*Fixed
Oh, to avoid further bandwidth exceeding (25 GB in a week and a half) I've decided to continue posting on the worklog and then just re-post the completed worklog here. Cheers

I figured I'd show where I'm up to on my G5 case mod.







I've forgotten some things (like the litte pieces I've already cut as filler pieces, waiting to be epoxied in & the EMI shield on the expansion slots & rear fans). I'm about 80% done, with jigsaw cuts for cable management, some JB Welding of things I screwed up, the top 2 fan housings & the zone plate between PCI slots & CPU. The drive racks & sleds are completely done the drives sit on sleds... here are pics:

http://www.overclock.net/case-mods-general...tml#post5886801

Since I wasn't able to test audio or firewire yet (no OS installed), I only connected power & USB. Here is what my front panel connector looked like:



With only the PWR+, PWR-, LED+ & LED-, the power button & LED worked:
5 PWR+ (pin6 on F_PANEL of Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard)
6 LED+ (pin2 on F_PANEL, labeled as MSG+)
14 LED- (pin4 on F_PANEL, labeled as MSG-)
18 PWR- (pin8 on F_PANEL)

Adding USB using a 4pin header connection:
7 USB+ (pin5 on F_USB of Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard)
8 USB- (pin3 on F_USB)
9 +5V (pin1 on F_USB)
10 GND (pin7 on F_USB)
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I used a laptop 40 to 44 pin IDE converter (search ebay for a cheap 99cent one). What was important was the 2mm pitch end had individual separate cables (as opposed to the flat ribbon 40 pin 2.54mm pitch side). A needle inserted lifts up the tab allowing the cable & tail to slide right out. I trimmed the cable to 3-4 inches, soldered it onto solid wire cabling to the motherboard & trimmed the original 44pin connector to 2x9. The tails went back into the connector & that's the end of the 99cent mod.

xs solid: any news about the front panel PCBs matey?

Ruslan120: dont worry about it mate! thanks for changing it though!

PCBs are ready but haven't had any time to make the cables :X
But could send an diy cableset, including calbling, pins and connectors. tho this would be little cheaper for you and i could ship it out faster.

i dont really need cables anyway, i have usb, and some single cables to make up the audio and firewire looms myself. but i would like the board like in your image. is that possible?

thanks for getting the boards done, saves me for a majorly messy soldering job!

K, project completed

Here are key progress pictures, full worklog at
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=166579

























































































This is basically the long and short:
I cut a hole in the bottom of the case for the psu and a section of the inside for the new heatsink to fit. I bought a Zigmatek Dark Knight heatsink and stupidly cut the heatpipes to make it fit, ruining it (as I learned at a later time when it idled at 70 C). I ordered a new, scythe mugen heatsink and it works perfectly now, idles at room temp. To fit the motherboard I re-used the original standoffs and epoxied them into place (epoxy is EXTREMLY strong), and then I simply mounted the motherboard tray onto them. I re-used the hard disk area and epoxied extension cables for the rear ports. I soldered the old rear fans and they worked, but didn't move enough air at 5v (at least for me), so I upgraded the fans to more quiet and more powerful 100 mm fans and simply epoxied/super glued them onto the bracket. For the video cable I simply used a right angle adapter coupled with an hdmi to dvi cable routed through a pci slot. I don't see the back of the case normally so I figured that's alright. I encourage you to read to worklog; there you'll see how I did the whole thing and maybe it will help!

Pre-soldered rear fans @ 5v for sale, pm me for a price!

Ok, 10 boards machined in total, 8 with connectors done, ran out of 2.54mm connectors with 2.
If i recall correclty they all are reserved:
3 for Diabolik
1 for Smoothy
1 for pitouthestar
1 for wlazara
2 for onemanstrash
1 for teknojunkie

Correct me if didn't remember these right.
Will take pics tomorrow =)

yay! you remembered me! thanks!

man, my iphone broke over the weekend, and ive lost my progress pictures! doh!

(XS)s0lid - just wondering if I was able to add my name to the list of people interested in a Front-Panel Board - or am I too late?

My case is almoust ready
Pics here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpo...mp;postcount=49

And here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpo...mp;postcount=53

its looking really good! are you just going with that one radiator then?

on my case, ive got two things to do, finish wiring the g5 board, and plug in your PCB when it arrives.

i could do with your help again on the g5 board. i have removed the metal covering for the ethernet, that was easy, but what is the best way to remove the black part on the back? i dont want to damage anything.

any help will be massively appreciated!

Use wire cutters like this for removing the blackbox and everything in it(there's just couple inductors):


I'll try to ship some of the boards at next week, please pm your shipping addresses.

thanks, ill try and hack it up then.

got one usb working 100% using a mighty mouse through it now, and copied 1gb through np, but the other usb inst so good. the red light comes on the bottom of the mouse, but it doesnt move the cursor. guessing somethijg isnt soldered properly?

I had this same problem when green wire were touching ground.

well i got good news and bad news.... both usbs are now working and i have sealed them with hot melt. but i managed to break off the ethernet connector! argh.

so my plan is to epoxy the usb apple ethernet adapter i have to use anyway(my boards ethernet is rubbish) in place of the broken one. saves me trying to solder the ethernet, as i am s h i t at soldering

Has anybody had problems getting their system to sleep on its own? Mine will sleep via the menu bar command, and also by scheduling it at a certain time. But it will not go to sleep if I just leave it and, say, have it sit for 30 minutes (at which point, according to my settings, it should sleep)? I was not having this problem in my old case. Every reply I have gotten has talked about grounding, and I have tried everything short of completely rewiring my front panel (which works). Any other ideas?

Ok, ѕӎѳѳҭңӌs, pitouthestars and wlazaras pcbs shipped, should be there in 5-7 days, shipping were fairly cheap 80snt without the cables and 1.1€ with cables (pitouthestars shipment), sent as airmail

Rest of you who have ordered me pcbs, pm me your shipping addresses so i'll get those sent

(XS)s0lid, just wondering - are you still taking new requests for these boards?

Snap, and what prices are you looking at for delivery and everything? (where are you based?)

Sorry if Youve been through this in the thread already, i read through all 40 odd pages last night and cant remember!

Cheers