pkeynote Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 So I've had a working G5 laying around for about 2 years. I considered selling or building a Hackintosh, I'll go with the second option Using the hardware I have in my PC As the space inside is tight, and no cuts will be made to the case I will swap my current ATX motherboard (GA-Z77-D3H for a mATX)List of components is as follows:CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1240V2 (Noctua Cooler)MOBO: GA-Z77M-D3H mATX form factor (been reading and looks good to install Mavericks on, I hate Yosemite) The only component I will buy.Ram: Kingston 8GB Stick x2SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 250GBGFX: Sapphire R9 280X Dual X OC (Will work "nearly" OBO?)PSU: Corsair RM850BTW I have an Intel Gigabyte NIC laying around, should I use it or the onboard ethernet?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac09hack Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 So I've had a working G5 laying around for about 2 years. I considered selling or building a Hackintosh, I'll go with the second option Using the hardware I have in my PC As the space inside is tight, and no cuts will be made to the case I will swap my current ATX motherboard (GA-Z77-D3H for a mATX) List of components is as follows: CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1240V2 (Noctua Cooler) MOBO: GA-Z77M-D3H mATX form factor (been reading and looks good to install Mavericks on, I hate Yosemite) The only component I will buy. Ram: Kingston 8GB Stick x2 SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 250GB GFX: Sapphire R9 280X Dual X OC (Will work "nearly" OBO?) PSU: Corsair RM850 BTW I have an Intel Gigabyte NIC laying around, should I use it or the onboard ethernet? Thanks Well, I just built a great looking package from an old G5 Powermac that died on me several years ago. I chose to use the latest and greatest hardware that I could afford. I used a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH board and an Intel 4790K CPU along with an Invidia GT-760 video card and lots of other parts like an SSD to create an Apple Fusion drive. Most of the work was resting the case and installing a MountainMods,com 7 PCI slot mounting plate inside the G5 case. I utilized as much of the disk mounting and hardware from the shelf at the top. Anyway, best build ever for my purposes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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