Thought I might start a thread to show off your boxes running OS X.

Mine here, poor images, cause I used phone camera in a poorly lit room... I will post some more once I grab my house mates digicam

Specs: (see sig) - added new case, a cold cathode, and some LED fans.... I have to do a little cable management, but i rang out of cable ties!
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That's awesome!

Here's mine...

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Whaddya think?

P.S. All taken on my phone, so... please excuse the fuzzyness at full resolution....

Those are Cellphone photos! There pretty good quality for cellhone photos!

Awesome system SABR!

I'd post mine, but my camera's xd card broke!

Nice cases guys! Perhaps he has one of those new 10MP Samsung cameraphones?

BTW...better of in the Mods and Overclocking sub-forum.

Finally tracked down my Old crappy little HP camera!

Here's a pic of my Hackintel! I've dubbed him MACGuyver!
Spec are in my Sig!

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NOTE: The Dance Pad in the pic works perfectly in OSx86!

I'll try to get some better pics later!

i do not like these casemods - go and delete OS X from your PC and put some windows on it to run 3D Mark XXXX ;-) ... just my two cents ....... :-)

Thanks...

The camera is a 1.3 megapixel, on a Nokia 6630. It's an alright phone I guess.



Show us your case then...

Nice mod guys! Here is my case, it's not jet finished. I'll still have to do some little things.









What do you think about my modded PowerMac G5?

the black MS mouse is replaced by a white wireless one - oh well, and i have cleaned my desk ;-)

the mac mini is used as media center (connected to my tv), powered by an ATI Remote Wonder (16€ at ebay).


however, nothing is modded (just overclocked - mac mini 1,25@1.,50GHz ;-)), so it does not rellay fit in this topic ;-)

the x86 OS X machine is a MSI MPC 915, 1GB of RAM 80GB Samsung HD GMA900/x500 PCI-E and a P4 630 (3GHz) - runs quite well, all hardware is supported, and even the card reader does work! :-)


btw: i like the G5 case :-)

Dafut...

That G5 case is amazing!! Where did you get it from?

Looks spectacular! Especially the white light from the fans...

Kick ass Dafut!

How much did the case set you back?

I'm betting £65 + ....

UK£ 65 = 113.6395 US$

Wish I had $114 in my pocket right now!

Thanks for the nice reactions

The case it self costed 45 euro (+/-54 dollar).I bought it form a reseller. The other things such as CCFLs, Fans costed about 50 euro (+/-60dollar). So that's 95 euro intotal wish is about 110 Dollar.

Haha!! I was $2 out!!

I'm going to be keeping an eye out for one of those cases!

come on kids! there must be more modders out there!

I wanna see pro mods, ghetto modds, all of em!

My Mactel - I love it

My first Modding Site


It works Windows XP and OSX 10.4.5 dualboot per MoBo F11 Bootmenue...

That's really hardcore modding, very nice...

Some of these mods are pretty sweet, especially the one by JasonT1701, nice work man. They are all nice for windows boxes but I'm sort of upset by the lack of mac themed modding. Just adding an etched in apple logo on that acrylic case would take it one step further. I'm not saying I'm a great modder by any means, just expected something else from this topic. I expect my new case soon, if I get a chance to break out the dremel and mod it, i'll post the images here, hopefully without being flamed in the mean time from my expectations.

On a UPS truck, somewhere in the midwest...
Asus P5LD2-VM (integrated GMA950 w/ ALC882 Audio)
Pentium 4 630HT Prescott 3.0Ghz (single core)
Corsair XMS PC-5400 DDR2 675 (2x512)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB SATA 3.0Gb/s
NEC 16x DVDR ND-3550A
Antec Minuet 300 mATX Slim Case

Yeah, some more mods would be great, but sadly I'm unable to do any right now.

I'll do some stuff once I get past all of my personal troubles.
One thing I'm looking into is getting an old DEC MicroVAX II case.
Picture of similar case.
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Hopefully I can work out all of the problems involved with getting the case!

Why is the word 'Micro' in the name of that case?!? It's the same size as my mini fridge holding the beer in my living room! Just think, you could rig that thing to run mac osx and hold a 6pack for you while you tinker with the os...

You think that's big the one i'm looking into is just about twice the size of it!
It's a very old computer/sever/monstrosity from the early 80's.
The reason why it has micro in its name is becuase its the small version of its kind.
Normal vax's can be big enough to fill up an entire room!

What I want to do to it is, after I have the computer in it, rig it up to power on from the little things people use to unlock there cars. Then I want to make it look like a vintage car. The plans are still in there early stages.

That could actually be pretty cool. If you also have a windows box you can mount both in that one massive case, not like you'll be short on room inside...it may take some intensive modding to get both boards mounted correctly but probably worth it. goodluck

Thanks! I'll need it!

Good luck!!

well it's a work in progress but i took some photos, still can't decide whether to paint this box a glossy white but I am planning on cutting an apple logo somewhere, inserting some translucent plexi glass and putting an lcd light behind it (like on the ibooks/powerbooks). I also managed to stealth the DVDRW drive on the front panel. it's behind the large silver plate, honestly. I can't take credit for the idea to do that, i got it from here I had to cut some of the copper fins off that hsf because it was too close to the psu and wouldnt fit otherwise

great, this means the Zalman CNPS7700 fits to the Asus P5LD2-VM mainboard? on the zalman-hp its not in the compatibility list?!

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Mikemad

MikeMad - Yeah the zalman fan fits on there perfectly! My problem was a case size issue not a board problem. didn't drop my temps much if any though. if you get the cnps7700 would you mind posting the before/after temps? Thanks

thx for your help. great news, but i desided to take the CNPS9500 AT.

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Mikemad

can you still post your before/after temps? thnx

3.2Ghz P4 640 @3.81Ghz (2MB L2 Cache, 950Mhz System Bus)
Asus P5GV-MX Motherboard (Intel 915GV Chipset)
2GB OCZ Platinum DDR400 (2 x 1024MB)
250GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 7200RPM SATA HD
80GB 2.5" External Toshiba 5400RPM HD (originally from Powerbook)
Toshiba 8x DVD-RW (finder burning supported)
LiteOn 52x CD-RW (finder burning supported)
Onboard Intel GMA900 Video (QE & CI supported)
19" Acer Widescreen Flat Panel Display (1440x900)
Logitech Cordless MX Duo Keyboard/Mouse
M-Audio Firewire Audiophile Soundcard

15" Aluminum Powerbook G4 Dual Layer Superdrive (October 2005)
1GB Ram (2 x 512MB)
Hitachi 60GB 7200RPM HD

Netgear DG-834G Wireless Router/ADSL modem
Epson Stylus R300 Photo & DVD/CD Printer
Alesis M1 Active MKIII Studio Monitors
Evolution UC-33 Midi Controller
Evolution MK-4902 49-Key Midi Keyboard

My old rig, sitting on the shelf, caseless, still functional:
Athlon XP 2600+ (1.9Ghz)
Abit KD7 Motherboard (Via KT400 Chipset)
1GB DDR333 (4 x 256MB)
160GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9 PATA HD
ATI Radeon 8500 128MB Video (AGP 4x)

dafut that mod is amazing...

Holy shiznit, that's exactly what I've been wanting to do for a while now. Two questions though.

1) How did you go about mounting the motherboard, seeing as the pegs don't line up properly with a standard ATX mobo?

2) How did you decide to arrange the ports in the back? Did you actually (ghasp) cut into that beautiful g5 case? If you could post some pics from the build that would be sweet

Thanks

In this topic click you can see how i did it. Thanks for the nice reactions!

umm is that a g5 case?? it looks like an antec or chieftec case I've got for a windows box and not like the G5 case in the link you posted as a learning tool

In the last post of that topic (my post) I think it's clear that it's a real G5. I think you didn't scroll down far enough.

My osx86 tripleboot box(WinXP,Osx86,Foxlinux)

Dafut - your case is a G5 no doubt, and I love what you did with it. It looks very clean with the white lights and the copper. Is the apple etched into the plexi?

For some reason I was thinking Dr. Fresh was saying that his modded box was a G5 case?!?! I must have been drinking when I posted that, sorry for the confusion.

cheapest, perfect working amd64-monster...

Hey Oldschool,

What brand and model is your computer case?

Its a lowcost china g5 clone case... named mercury.
The prob is the case is not produced in this form anymore.

Rgds.

ahoi donicci,

if you are looking for it further, keep this link up:

http://www.codegengroup.com/index.php?cPath=25_36

there you can find lookalikes of a g5.
i bought the "Briza-99-CA" in silvershinin´ half year ago, and they are still available. google for a local store.....
good product !!

quality not like the original, but fits all components without any probs and only for 60 bucks !!


greetz knobsi