When you turn on a computer all you do is complete a circuit so any switch will do. I'll be hanging on to my Mid 2010 Mac Pro for as long as possible. If Apple made a Windows box, I'd imagine it looking something like this. This allowed me to use the front panel, but as I had broken the power button I used an generic switch instead of the official one. Phanteks just released their new ATX case and it's stunning - super thick, Mac Pro like ANODIZED (hate brushed metal) aluminum panels, and super clean, elegant design. On the Picture above there is a ATX power supply on the left and a Mac on the right. So I decided that I would just leave it there as is, luckily I found an adapter on eBay for ATX motherboards. Having always been a fan of the design of the Apple G5 case and always having boring generic cases I wanted to make something unique inspired by the G5 case. G5 Mac Power Supply to ATX Mod: Converting a Mac Power Supply to ATX motherboard its no so hard to do. In an attempt to remove it I broke the power button. Only necessary in the ATX-Cases to fit the bigger ATX Boards in.
The screw holes are pre-existing as apple uses the same 5.25 DVD Drives found in all desktops. The cables in an ATX Case (not hidden / cable-managed) HDD-Caddy: The original Apple 2-Bay HDD-caddy was glued into its new place to be out of the way.
APPLE G5 CASE MICRO ATX MOD
The front panel was the biggest pain of the whole project. Custom G5 Case Mod (Micro ATX, Easiest Build & Clean) Thread starter. This was fairly straightforward, wiring wasn’t clean at the best of times but it didn’t really matter. Apple BCM94360CD Wifi/BT Card (OEM 802. After that I connected all the connections from the PSU. Z77MX-QUO-AOS (Hackintosh Mobo) Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge CPU (got this for 160 at micro center, fuck yeah) EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB.
They were both easy enough as the DVD drive had a hole right next to it, which I could route the wires through while I had to squeeze the Sata cables through the side of the case to reach the HDD’s. I started by connecting the Sata connectors from the DVD Drive & HDD’s to the motherboard. this required a lot of research into which cards will run successfully in osx and output via Displayport which is why I decided to use the Zotac Geforce GT430 Graphics Card.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guideīy now I had all the major parts in place (I didn’t mention Ram + CPU but that is fairly self-explanatory. I also want to run My current 27" iMac as my Hackintosh's Primary Screen, via the displayport input function available on the new 27"iMacs.
APPLE G5 CASE MICRO ATX MAC OSX
Running this software will require my hackintosh to run osx at a minimum version of 10.6.6 (so I can take advantage of the apple app store and all the latest mac osx updates) Great case for someone building a hackintosh. Black Cable is the front button power cable mod included.
APPLE G5 CASE MICRO ATX FULL
Custom installed an ATX tray inside the case with epoxy and will fit full ATX motherboards. Apple Powermac G5 Case with ATX Conversion Hackintosh. I personally want to build a hackintosh for the sole intention of bluray support, as I have a whole load of Family videos that i want to fit onto multiple blurays, and with blu ray software beginning to emerge for the mac, I want to utilise the new technology which at present is not available direct from Apple. Special Micro-ATX eVGA SLi motherboard, 1st of its kind in the world. Apple Powermac G5 Case with ATX Conversion Hackintosh: 75.0.
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