Mr.D.

yup - putting it on top of the teslaconverter case up front behind the mesh. The only issue now is how to encase it - that is kicking my ass at the moment.

and I bought mine from the same place you bought yours - nobody in the US had it in stock, and most places had no eta. I just bit the bullet and bought it from Scotland.

Black and silver pretty much always go together - and it works well on yours. If you did do it in aluminum, then the problem would be how to match the existing aluminum...

MiniHack, on 27 April 2013 - 04:08 PM, said:

My suggestion would be a right angle and a 'left' angle plug - the 'left' being a 270 rather than 90 turn. The right angle going down, the left angle going up, then fold the cable back on itself. Assuming you have a pliable enough cable (monoprice has some good Sata3 and 6 cables that aren't super thick and are pretty cheap) you'll just have a small bump going up. To use the stock G5 HDD mounting I had to use one left and one right angle cable because one went up and the other went down. Only took me 5 different combinations to get that all correct!

Two questions:
1> Was it required to cut the TeslaConverter case to get the cables out because of the MB height? I think you did a good job of cutting very little, but now you have a raw metal edge rather than the folded metal edge that was there originally - Not as pretty (that's minor) and a potential area to catch and/or cut the sheathing or the cables inside (that's major).
2> Are you sticking with black plastic parts for your final build or are these just templates for metal pieces to come later?

Overall looking very sharp and progressing nicely.

PS - I got my NixieTube fan controller in - now I just have to figure out a way to use it w/o modifying my case - it can be done!!

sadly, the touchscreen capabilities are not supported on this hack - there is some discussion in the blog about the touchscreen, but the gist of it is that it's much harder then the display part. There is always the overlay option but that seems kinda ghetto on such a nice screen.

is the fan on channel 4 an original G5 w/o the swap? My curiosity would be a comparison between an original G5 vs your modified G5 fan with regard to RPM and Noise, each at the same voltage.

This is an awesome tutorial... unless you have an issues, I'm bumping it to the top for the week long comment period before moving it to the [How-To]s.

And on a personal note - Kudos on your Multi-tool choice. Anybody who knows quality will choose a Gerber over a Leatherman any day.
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Interesting... I'll bring this up with RPD and go from there. Thanks!

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From Rampage Dev himself on the board choice:

I have used that MB before and I have a patched AppleHDA and DSDT for it and it works wonderfully. Bad idea to use such a old ALC and all the other boards at that price point only have 3 pin audio and not 6 pin. Board works flawlessly.

Also, see his reply below.