nah, in no hurry..... I'm actually taking my time with the case, because I'm not super stoked on any current hardware. It won't be long until intel ditches the front side bus with nehalem, and that will mean a new socket/motherboard/cpu/ram, etc.... I wonder if I can hold out that long... my current hack has been so stable and worry free, that I am starting to think I should hold out for nehalem at the end of 08. In the mean time, I can get my G5 case all buffed out and ready. If I buy the hardware now, I'll just do a rush job. If I can't hold out for nehalem, I might just take my time sourcing the parts on ebay, and build on the cheap for now....

nice yeah good Idea and you get power supply solution done also im looking for the socket that the powersupply uses so I can use it on my power supply with out opening it up like a socket to socket hopefully you know what I mean, simply the socket where you connect the power cable on the power supply thanks

7.2 inch Power extension cord - $6USD shipped - ebay

thanks so much I have been looking for this everywhere tahnk you!!!just bought itBut How Would I Mount it?

jeez..... be creative..... that's what modding is all about. it should just slide in from the inside. you just need to secure it. i've already demonstrated that sockets can be modified, and mounted by fashioning a custom connector out of ABS and then fusing it to the plug using ABS cement. you can get abs sheets at hobbylinc, and ABS cement in the plumbing section of your local hardware store.

Sorry, I will try what you said I want to get Ideas from an "expert" lol

In this thread on page 3, you will find some inspiring pictures

Anyone have any extra Fan Grills

Another one to the group!

It's not 100% finished so please forgive me if inside it's still a mess










To Do List:
- Install the DVD-ROM (first I have to buy some internal parts that didn't came with my case)
- Make the front panel to work with the Power Button, HDD blue Led (instead of the front audio out) and the USB. Right now I'm really improvising as you can see on the last picture
- Buy 2 90x90mm Coolers for the back of the case
- Buy a modular PSU so I can remove some unecessary cables
- Sell my 8800 GTX an get a 8800GTS G92 wich overclocks more, consume less and would allow me to use the plastic side panel
- Maybe switch to Wather cooler (I already have some parts in mind that woul fit like a glove)

Comments are welcome

to answer a PM about how I did the ABS frame around the rear ports, I made a lil graphic:



it's a long, rectangular frame with a single center cutout for all the ports. I kept it as close to the plastic port inserts as possible.
again, I used superglue to attach the ABS to the G5 aluminum, and ABS cement from the plumbing section of my local hardware store to attach the plugs to the ABS.

nice you guys, viper dont really like the internal lights overall it looks good though

Can you please post pics of the back of the case??

amantheboy08: I guess you wont see there (on Viper's backside) nothing more than blank holes of ports :-D But....maybe I am wrong. So?

my antenna jumper cables finally arrived today, so I was able to finish the rear ports. finally:

Very Nice like the touch of the white antenna matches the whole design dude i want to see this thing, power up, its gonna be better than the real thing nice.

thanks, but it will never be better than the real thing, only as good from the outside, but the inside won't touch a real G5 or mac pro. it'll be ghetto when it's done. hackintosh = ghetto mac, but that's the charm.... but, I've kept it looking real from the outside, so I'm happy.

oh, I guess it is better than the real thing, because unlike the 1st gen mac pro owners who can't even upgrade their graphics card, I can actually upgrade anything, at any time.

anyway, don't expect the inside to be a masterpiece, all the effort is going into keeping it real from the outside.

Yea no problem do you know if thier is some sort of ground for the LED because the led on turn on when I hold on to the button.

huh?

I have no idea what is wrong with your led, mine works as expected. I would say triple check your wiring.

Ok this is my wiring pwr, Grnd, Led

ok Im closer to solving the LED problem the Pwr and LED share the same led im I able to split the ground to make it work on both.

dude, I want to help you, but your posts are just too vague, and make no sense to me... with both your previous post and this one, I am thinking WTF?

amantheboy, if you check the diagram from the front panel, you will see that the led is connect to one wire not two. As shown here : http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry265135

Sorry I was in a hurry I am saying I found out that the Pwr and the LED share the same ground so i was wondering if i could split the ground into to pins

Ok Here is Finally my Pics Not Fully done yet but really close.

Ok, here it is (but keep in mind that I'm not ok with that and I'll have some work to do yet):










I had to do some workarounds just to satisfy my ego and say myself that I acomplish to mount the case, but I'm buying this tray from a Silverstone TJ07 case to use in the project (will be here in about 60 days or so):



The rest of the photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabriciogs/se...57603711634882/

wow this topic is slowly drifting away, where did nervous chimp go.

I would hardly say that! There are many people working hard on their g5s, just because we haven't posted yet does not mean nothing is happening!!! Patience my friend

Smoothy knows what he is talking about, since he bought Macpro instead of modding case he had, haha

yeah, this thread aint dead... I still see people posting photos..... don't any updates from me for a while, I've got lot's of real-world stuff going on right now.

I am toying with the idea of installing a mac mini in the superdrive bay. It would be on an adhock connection with my mainboard, and it would function as my lil helper for torrents, dvd rips, encoding, etc. I would modify the superdrive hatch to be slot-loading, and I would run a DVI jumper to the rear of the G5, and would use leo screen sharing as well as an internal kvm to control it.

lol, behave yourself!! ill have you kno my case mod is coming along nicely!!! in fact i will be posting to this 'dead' topic in the-not-so-distant-future! lol

sweet sorry about my last post really bored, does anyone know any sli motherboards that are compatible with vanilla and EFI, not gonna use sliin osx though only in windows thanks

Smoothy: Sweet. You did not say a word about modding for a quite long time, so I thought that your MacPro-buy was the last piece of your modding puzzle Nice then, I am starting to be curious.

that would be very interesting, 2 pcs in one

I was asked to post a final pic of my ports from the inside:

I am in the middle slapping a coat of gray testers model paint on there, but it's pretty much done.

@nervouschimp: good idea

My G5 case arrived yesterday and here's the result:







Greetings from Germany

Newchurch

Newchurch, looking good, but.... no rear exhaust.... no air circulation? still working that out?

Hi,

the last picture doesn't show the final status - now there's a 12cm fan on top of the powersupply.
I hope this will be enough "air conditioning"

Newchurch

newchurch, you dont mess around do you! lol got the case yesterday, now theres a pc in it today!!

i managed to get a lian li motherboard tray, so i'm just planning the best way of having it! im gonna be fitting a lot of stuff in this case. ive also managed to get my hands on a large sheet of satin anodized aluminium, which looks just like that of the case itself!

yep I got the lian li case too good fitim thinking about doing this too what did you use to make the cuts and also those two attenas are thier but what chip are you gonna use for the wifi and bluetooth

so my front-mounted board, and cabling method would very easily allow for this:



An iMac Pro.

What do you guys think? should I make this happen?

Nervouschimp: definetly, if you wont mess up somethig (and I believe you wont), I thought about this idea too but its too hitech to do it for me. Anyway, I would love to see this kind of Hack-iMac

got rid of my watercooling kit. just wasnt satisfied with the way it looked. or performed really.
so heres my old:

New:

i got a P5K-VM too. great board for leopard.

now clean up the wiring and you are good and get the front panel board=]y not if you can make it happen it will do, but crazy foo, a mac mini, and imac and a G5 hahaha, and would make everything fit on the door like the isight and the monitor so if you ever want to stick the regular door on it you can too. nice.

the iMac Pro mod is actually looking quite practical and cost-effective. the iSight will actually be an xbox 360 live cam, and it will be mounted to the drive shelf, not the side door, so that it can be aimed just right while the door is off. the screen will be a 17-inch widescreen 1440x900 8ms LCD that can be had for $150, and it will fit perfectly. I will be using a hanns-g desktop monitor, and stripping it from the casing, as this is the only affordable method. Using a laptop screen would cost more, require more work, and more parts to convert the LVDS to DVI.... not worth it. I think I will get started on this.....

well when i first saw your picture of the design i thought of using the 360 live camera too. its a great camera for photobooth as it is what i use ! =]

so its gonna be used as your secondary display right.

yeah, I've got an Apple 30-inch cinema display on a humanscale m7 arm for my primary display. It's the perfect setup.

the built in screen is mostly novelty, but there are plenty of uses for the built-in display... eh, I'm sure I'll just fill it up with widgets, or play movies on it while I work. I thought that I would make the desktop background a photo of the inside of a real G5 to create an interesting visual. It would look like a window kit with apps running in it..... silly, I know...

so you already mounted the board and everything, oh yeah the power supply did you find a way to desolder the ones you need and don't

haven't mounted the board. the m3.5 screws I got didn't end up fitting the G5 standoffs, so I have set of G5 case screws coming. I just decided to shorten the PSU cables that were bugging me, just started to do that.... but it's time consuming.

nice idea. Keep us posted