[WIP] Razmac G5 [Update July 30th, 2015: Assembling the system]

[Razbit]

I already know what you're going to do are you getting custom extensions for the psu tho?

 

you mean to the cables? maybe, if I have the required euromonies and patience for sleevin, then yes or then A BIG BUNCH OF euromonies and buy something like Alchemy cables, we'll see

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

you mean to the cables? maybe, if I have the required euromonies and patience for sleevin, then yes or then A BIG BUNCH OF euromonies and buy something like Alchemy cables, we'll see

Buy some Nanoxia extensions, they are already sleeved, or some Alchemy they are around the same price here but I can't find the Nanoxia ones in stock anymore

[Razbit]

Buy some Nanoxia extensions, they are already sleeved, or some Alchemy they are around the same price here but I can't find the Nanoxia ones in stock anymore

 

Ok, thanks for the info!

 

We'll see what happens, I have some sleeve left from Redefine, so I might as well just make 'em muh self

[Razbit]

Hi again!

 

Last Friday (and Sunday) I had the time for gluing the rest of the G5 together, namely the rear and the front USB thingy. This time I used chemical metal (from Pakla, a Finnish putty/glue manufacturer), so that I could fill all the gaps at the same time. I used a Dremel to cut open some tiny gaps so that they could be filled well.

 

Anyway, here we go! On Friday I glued the inside and prepared the USB hub (an LC Power USB3.0 hub) for gluing to the case:

 

I glued an aluminum sheet to the side of the case, seen above.

 

 

And drying:

 

And that was it for Friday, now on we go to Sunday!

 

The case was dry, so it was time to get this bad boy out:

 

Chemical metal! (At this point I dumped the OnePlus camera for my father's Nikon D3200, there is a *slight* difference )

 

Mix with some curing agent:

 

And ready for use! The rear was glued first, like so:

 

 

 

And the USB was glued:

 

Then the same stuff was used for filling some gaps in case:

 

 

The gaps on the side of the case were filled too, no pics (yet), sorry..  Next up there is a BIG bunch of sanding to be done, then some more putty and some more sanding and, you know, more sanding

 

There was some progress on the power supply, too. I took apart the original G5 PSU, shortened it's case and fitted a Corsair VX450 to it. Some work-in-progress pics:

 

 

Todo list for the PSU:

- fan hole

- cover the original holes

- safety??

- ???

- profit

 

 

More to come, stay tuned!

 

Thanks for reading, please comment and share! Tell your friends!

 

 

Cheers,

Razbit

[Tobleh]

I'm loving this so far! 

[Razbit]

Howdy guys, its time for an update again!

 

I've been working on the PSU now (and the front panel cables), here's what I've done (so far)

 

I started by making the hole for the fan to the bottom of the PSU, mounted the PSU to its case, mounted the fan, tinkered with them cables and got this:

 

 

 

All the unnecessary cables are wrapped around the fan, so only one SATA, PCIe, ATX and the EPS cables come out of the PSU case -> neat.

 

I cut & glued a piece of aluminum to cover the holes in the front of the PSU:

 

There'll probably be an aluminum shroud on the whole PSU thing, we'll see

 

And then to the cables. The USB3.0 cable is still undone, since I don't know its exact length yet..

 

Sleeved and soldered the power button and power led cables from an old case to the Apple power button, like so:

 

 

The center is a shared ground and the orange goes to the other pin of the power button (if I remember correctly, nothing visible anymore because of the sleeving.. Pretty sure, tho)

 

 

 

And then, last but not least, the USB hub. No data cable yet, but the power cable is done.

 

It just has a Molex in the other end, nothing that fancy Also, the FET chip is overridden to make the power button of the hub useless, I don't want to manually turn the hub on every time I boot the computer..

 

Thats it again, thanks for your time, please comment and share!

 

Thanks,

 

Razbit

[Gilbert]

You should totally repaint the metal to hide all of the dremel marks and the putty

[Razbit]

You should totally repaint the metal to hide all of the dremel marks and the putty

 

Yep, that I'll do Probably today I'm gonna sand the case and apply more putty, paint will come later  

[Razbit]

Update May 2nd, 2015: MOAR PUTTYYYYY

 

Alrighty folks, time for an update! Since the previous putty update there has been two more rounds of putty-ing (is that a word?)

 

I sanded the case and applied more putty, two rounds of chemical metal, one layer of car putty. That's a total of 3 layers of putty, thats quite a lot of sanding! (could be more, of course )

 

Anyway, here we go!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thats how the power jack will look like, not bad

 

 

And then, after the (so far) final sanding:

 

 

 

 

Next up, drilling them holes open again and mobo mount. Some "things" occured in my wallet, so we might have to wait a bit.. The Redefine will donate some of its components to this build, but at this moment I  can't buy a motherboard (GA-Z97M-D3H)..

 

I'll get back to this ASAP, I'll try to finish this thing during summer!

 

Thanks for reading, please comment! Tell me what ya think!

 

That's it for today, stay tuned!

 

[ManWithBeard1990]

So you basically turned it into a bitfenix prodigy...

But this is way more fun and still prettier.

[Norman_the_Owl]

So you basically turned it into a bitfenix prodigy...

But this is way more fun and still prettier.

And better in every single way.

The prodigy is just a disaster in every way imaginable

[Razbit]

So you basically turned it into a bitfenix prodigy...

But this is way more fun and still prettier.

 

Yeah, thats what I did But it houses a mATX board, and is not made of plastic

And better in every single way.

The prodigy is just a disaster in every way imaginable

 

I agree with ya on that

 

Thanks guys!

[ManWithBeard1990]

Yeah, thats what I did But it houses a mATX board, and is not made of plastic

I agree with ya on that

Thanks guys!

I din't know the prodigy was made of plastic. But I did think there was an matx version of it. Could be wrong though.

As I said this is prettier and more fun but personally I'm more of a full tower kind of guy. I like the G5 though. If you've seen my build it's pretty clear where I got the inspiration.

[ALXAndy]

Awesome!

[HellaflushMcSwaggins]

This is going to be epic!

Can't wait to start working on mine again.

[Razbit]

I din't know the prodigy was made of plastic. But I did think there was an matx version of it. Could be wrong though.

As I said this is prettier and more fun but personally I'm more of a full tower kind of guy. I like the G5 though. If you've seen my build it's pretty clear where I got the inspiration.

Well, not totally from plastic, no. It has a metal (steel?) Frame, but if I recall correctly, the feet and handles on top are plastic.

 

Anyway, I like the g5, but with the Redefine I got fed up with the size of even midi towers like the FD R4, and wanted something smaller. (And a normal motherboard just looks stupid in the huge G5, I think)

 

And about your build, looks great! I like those scratch builds, if the maker has a good idea (like you had), they usually work great!

 

 

@HellaflushMcSwaggins, @ALXAndy

Thanks, guys!

[ManWithBeard1990]

Well, not totally from plastic, no. It has a metal (steel?) Frame, but if I recall correctly, the feet and handles on top are plastic.

Anyway, I like the g5, but with the Redefine I got fed up with the size of even midi towers like the FD R4, and wanted something smaller. (And a normal motherboard just looks stupid in the huge G5, I think)

And about your build, looks great! I like those scratch builds, if the maker has a good idea (like you had), they usually work great!

@HellaflushMcSwaggins, @ALXAndy

Thanks, guys!

I wouldn't call it huge but yeah, there's smaller pcs out there. Another benefit of this mod is that you could get rid of the optical drive. Looks nicer this way.

[Guest]

I will be really impressed if you manage to get the holes in the mesh front to line up and it to look like it was meant to be that way.

 

 

I din't know the prodigy was made of plastic. But I did think there was an matx version of it. Could be wrong though.
As I said this is prettier and more fun but personally I'm more of a full tower kind of guy. I like the G5 though. If you've seen my build it's pretty clear where I got the inspiration.

or your profile pic.

[ManWithBeard1990]

or your profile pic.

My profile pic is my build. But you knew that.

[ObeseWalrus]

Apple could make good money by redoing this case in standard ATX form factor and selling it. I would pay good money for a nice case like this.

[ManWithBeard1990]

Apple could make good money by redoing this case in standard ATX form factor and selling it. I would pay good money for a nice case like this.

It's a shame but that's just not how Apple rolls.

[ALXAndy]

Apple could make good money by redoing this case in standard ATX form factor and selling it. I would pay good money for a nice case like this.

 

http://www.cooltek.de/en/powered-by-jonsbo/umx-series/104/umx2?c=268

 

Is about as close as you're going to get. Is that Bob Ross in your avatar? my mother met him we have signed paintings RIP.

[ObeseWalrus]

Is that Bob Ross in your avatar? my mother met him we have signed paintings RIP.

Yeah that it Bob Ross in my avatar, super relaxing to watch the joy of painting. Super cool that you have signed paintings too!

[Razbit]

Hello again, and first of all sorry for this delay again...

 

Anyhow, now that the summer is finally here, I'll have time till mid-August, more or less.. So, there will be (and has been) progress!

 

After a long while of sanding the putty I got to drilling the holes open again. I used a piece of the hole mesh as a guide and got to it:

 

A couple of holes at a time, but it turned out pretty good:

 

 

When it gets painted I believe it'll be quite hard to find the cut (by accident, at least).

 

The same method was used with the front IO thingy.

 

 

 

Some more sanding to smoothen the holes and done. I'll paint the case once all the internals are done.

 

The next thing I did was figuring out a way for mounting the mobo to the case. The aluminum L-channel provided a surface for the two mounting screws at the expansion slots, so all I did was a hole (2.8 mm) and screwed a riser to it.

 

The mobo was positioned and held in place using a couple of expansion cards, one of which is shown above.

 

I made two holders for the rest of the 6 holes. I used a bunch of risers and some aluminum C-channel. Screwed them to the board and glued to the case using chemical metal. The board seen in these pics is not one that'll be used in the end

 

After gluing I used a car coolant container as a weight to keep the motherboard down

 

 

 

There she is

 

 

Now about the future of the build. The Redefine got severely damaged while I was selling it, so its case is unusable now.. The parts work, tho. So, I'll need to get rid of the motherboard (MVIIR) and the 360 rad, rest of the parts will be used in this build! That means we'll have a 4690K and a R9 290 in this case, with water cooling. I need a new mobo (Asrock Z97M Pro4?) and a rad, probably a single 280 to the front.

 

Once I have the mobo and the rad (won't take long, hopefully during the next two weeks), I'll finish this one, shouldn't be that much left anymore. I'll get back to you with the side panel soon, tho

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Cheers,

Razbit

[Guest]

Now I'm really impressed that you managed to get the holes at the front of the case to line up.