airacutie Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hello all, so as the title says, I just recently finished my first mod and its based on Apple PowerMac G5. As a past owner of various Alienware machines and current Apple fan, I wanted to build something quite powerful in Apple case, as none of currently available Apple products could achieve what I need. So I grabbed PowerMac G5 which was available and have started to think what with it. I found couple of really useful posts on the internet which gave me an idea how to proceed. I have used old ATX case as MB holder and back plate and overall it took me something around 40 hours to finish I think. Main usage is as gaming rig and home PC for everything. Current specs is as below: CPU: i5 4670k @4.2 + Cooler Master Hyper 212+ EVO GPU: MSI R9 270X Hawk MB: MSI Z87 MPOWER SP RAM: 8GB Kingston 2400MHz SSD: 256GB + 128GB Crucial M4 PSU: 650W Cooler Master Regarding some benchmarks: 3DMark 2006: 28157 3DMark 11: 8534 Windows 8 experience index: 8.1|8.1|8.4|8.4|8.2 Mavericks 10.9.0 installed on smaller SSD, but not usable as I am unable to boot without safe mode. Some photos can be found here (I apologize for premod photos, they are mainly from internet, as I dont have any premod photos of the case ;-) Last image was a backup plan :-) http://imgur.com/a/1uyA0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.D. Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Looking good! If you have any more detailed photos that you would share with everyone, we'd all appreciate it! Have you bench-marked the system yet? What are you planning on using it for? How long did it take to do the work? How much did you spend? Looks great so far - but I think I can speak for everyone when I say, "More!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airacutie Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share Posted April 24, 2014 Thanks Mr.D. :-) I have added some more info, will add also some more detailed photos later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.D. Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Will you be running a version of OS X on this system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airacutie Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 Not sure yet, I was trying to install it on my previous machine using the process below but without success. http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/documentation/pre-installation/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airacutie Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 More photos finally added, with new CPU cooler. Better later then never ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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