Hi all, I begin my first worklog, it's a apple G5

conversion, I try to keep the apple look outside and inside but

with my own choices.

Hardware :

Q6600
DFI P35 UT
4GB crucial ballistix tracer 5300
Twintech 8800GTS 512 (to change with black pcb card)
Samsung T166 500gb raid
Corsair HX 520w
Sony dvd burner

Liquid cooling if budget can be completed

Ek supreme
Laing ddc 3.2 with Ek acetal top
Ek northbridge cooler
EK nickel block (depend from graphic card)
Dual microcool 240 rad (stacked rads)
10/16 compressions fittings
10/16 white tubing

Mod parts:

Apple G5
Lian li A10 motherboard tray
Lian li rack drive
TJ-07 watercooling rad supports
Full white sleeving
Nanoxia Fans

Some objectives of the project:

Try to keep the mac look with mods, painting of all parts to mac

grey,

Reuse powersupply plastic surround port in lian li motherboard

tray

Cover rads, bottom case with custom aluminium plate.

Color scheme : white, grey, green.

Repaint case to original grey.

Sponsor : EK waterblocks






Modding parts



Case ready for some action



First placement of motherboard tray



Cut for opening door mechanism



Motherboard tray inside



Second cutting session and more adjustment



Cutting back plate for door opening and lapping





Adaptation of powersupply plastic surround port , final form of

hole would be made with mastic



Holes will be filled with mastic too

I'll try some sketchup for final look


Does anyone know , where I can find fixation for my dvd burner ?

I contact Eddy from EK watercooling, he accept to sponsor me, I'm really happy and want to thanks him because this is my first worklog.

Tomorrow big update, I play all the afternoon with bondo, some parts are modded and painted with filler.

I see you are taking the Lian Li tray approach, I had thought about that too.

I hope that somebody starts selling ATX-modified (ready) PowerMac Cases or kits to do it right.

I would probably pay good money for some perfect conversions, but I would probably want the original cases uncut.

I wanted a 120 mn fan on my mod, best way was to use this lian li plate, if you want the easiest mod, mac pro case need less modding.

Hard drive rack prepared for some modding (3 to 2 hard drives)



Integration of apple psu hole



backside



superior side, there was an hole in the upper side, I cut a little plate from aluminium and filled with bondo.




Rack drive modded and prepared with filler.




Back motherboard tray finished





Painted



I'm not very happy with paint, it doesn't look professional, kind of plastic texture and don't match apple grey.

Since I had planed to repaint the case ( to much little dents, and color dismatch because smoking) soon, I've ask a friend who work in a paint garage to respray all the parts.

That would be very nice indeed.
For not having to cut the case, it's possible to use the original ports openings, with matching ports connected to the motherboard connectors or mobo pinouts.
Having produced a PCB with all the ports correctly aligned, aswell as the cables towards the mobo, would be an great savior.
I did comething close with a part from an actual G5 mobo, but soldering so small sucks, and for now I've only done the sound and USB.



BTW, ultimeus, I like your Mac Pro style placement of the large fan.
Alu / metalic spray paints aren't very good in general.. fragile and smudges at touch.
Would sand blastig be an option?
Else, plain grey paint could be nice. Would match the style of the internal plastic parts.

Thanks pirloui , one of my condition I wanted a 120 mn fan

Surfing on internet for some days I didn't find any exact info on apple grey, but it seems to be a powder coating or anodizing.

I let front dvd bezel to my friend painter, he is going to try to find the "same" color, of course texture would be a little different.

I don't use any plastic internal parts for this mod

this is looking good! i believe in the other thread, somebody sprayed their fans grey! what watercooling are you planning for this?

thanks smooth for wc parts :

Ek supreme
Laing ddc 3.2 with Ek acetal top
Ek northbridge cooler
EK nickel block (depend from graphic card)
Dual microcool 240 rad (stacked rads)
10/16 compressions fittings
10/16 white tubing

I like my nanoxia fans so much, and theme is grey, white, green. My white sleeving is shipped, I hope receive it soon.

sounds good. im also watercooling mine. ill be posting my updates in the main thread! just got my res mounted.