akira9000 Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Now with video - Finished the build part two days ago, installed retail OS X 10.6.2 yesterday and done some testing today. Sometimes I thought this thing was never gonna end, but hey, thats what you get when you decide to do a case mod properly and not just buy off the shelf pc cases. Hardware - Dual 2Ghz PPC Powermac - DOA so gutted for the pristine case. Got lucky with this one. Retail OSX Snow Leo Intel Core i5 750 Gigabyte P55M-UD2 ( p55 chipset - no headaches ) Corsair HX series modular PSU 4 x 2Gb Crucial i5 1333mhz DDR3 2 x Samsung 1Tb F3 Hdds 1 x Pioneer SATA DVD rewriter ( had it in the spares draw but up to date spec ) Palit 9500 GT Silent VGA/DVI/HDMI Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev2 PWM fan/heatsink 1 x LIAN LI aluminium HDD drive cage 1 x Coolermaster Wavemaster motherboard tray direct from Coolermaster NL ( many thanks to their superb customer service, they went digging through the warehouse to find me one and DHL'd next day. And a shout to Aquamac for pointing me in the right direction ) The hard part - The easy part - Everything working except sleep. Cinebench score of 12631. Running CS4 master collection. Cuts through video like a knife through butter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Hardware - Dual 2Ghz PPC Powermac - DOA so gutted for the pristine case. Got lucky with this one. Retail OSX Snow Leo Intel Core i5 750 Gigabyte P55M-UD2 ( p55 chipset - no headaches ) Corsair HX series modular PSU 2 x 2Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 2 x Samsung 1Tb F3 Hdds 1 x Pioneer SATA DVD rewriter ( had it in the spares draw but up to date spec ) Palit 9500 GT Silent VGA/DVI/HDMI Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev2 PWM fan/heatsink 1 x LIAN LI aluminium HDD drive cage 1 x Coolermaster Wavemaster motherboard tray direct from Coolermaster NL ( many thanks to their superb customer service, they went digging through the warehouse to find me one and DHL'd next day. And a shout to Aquamac for pointing me in the right direction ) Everything working except sleep. Cinebench score of 12631. Running CS4 master collection. Cuts through video like a knife through butter. Very nice and clean work, but the scores ... hmmmm ... ugly ??? I got 12915 with my Q9550. I thought about upgrading to an i series, but i think, i´m well done right now Cheers Goron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira9000 Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 At the moment I'm limping along with 1.8v DDR3 as its all I could get in time for the build. This is throttling itself back to 1033mhz at 1.5v. Hopefully this week I will be getting some i5 rated DDR 3 to run at 1333Mhz as the system should be and I'll re-run cinebench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 reverse cooling? I'd probably go in the front out the back to prevent dust from behind the rig getting sucked right in. But it looks very clean. Kind of loses the stock look with the drives were they are, but it's not terrible, to me it would just be hard to go in and change drives or something. very very recessed mobo tray, almost looks like the rear fan is outside the case when you look at the shot of your internals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira9000 Posted January 18, 2010 Author Share Posted January 18, 2010 The Arctic Freezer will only fit that way round because of the ridiculous height of the Ram heatsinks. When I have changed out the dominator sticks for the proper memory, I will switch the Arctic 180 degrees like it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameris_cyning Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 What did you use for the back pannel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira9000 Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 There is an entire Coolermaster Wavemaster motherboard tray in there. Very neat and tidy and as used by Aquamac and a few others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira9000 Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Now with video - check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcross92 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Hey Akira, sweet mod! I'm looking to do the same, and I notice you are in the UK as well! Wherabouts did you get that Lian LI HDD cage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 What wifi card are you using? And what chipset is it based off of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira9000 Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 xcross92 - Lian Li HDD cage was just from ebay, cost about £12 I think. Not the cheapest way to do it but a well engineered product, light, smooth edges and includes a great 1500rpm 120mm cooling fan all built in. Eric M - Again, just found a standard PC broadcom wifi pci card on ebay. Plug and play, OS X picks it up with no hassle and no extra kexts. Have been using the same wifi card in all my hackintoshes since my first OS X Tiger build a couple of years ago. Have not needed any additional kexts as the system identifies it as as Apple Airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoCoAlEx Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 WoW ! I Love It Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manual123 Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 This is sick!! good job man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highwaytrucker Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Is this thread dead? I was getting ready to mod my G5 case & was woundering if anyone new about the "Coolermaster Wave" and Lian Li also made a cases With MoBo trays Then I just found this thread I too am going that route..........way easier and looks Clean (Stock) Great job and awsome Video Have you upgraded to an i7 or anything new? Regards Highwaytrucker www.highwaytrucker.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grady.lynch Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I know this thread is long dead but I cannot find this power adapter anywhere else. Has anyone released a guide on how to make these? They are beautiful and I want one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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