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Hey everyone! i have finally done it! i have modded and old Power Mac G3 case to fit a modern System! anyway, lets get started with the build log itself! :D

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Intel Pentium G3258

MSI H81M-P33

Gigabyte WINDFORCE radeon HD 7870 GHZ Edition

4GB Crucial DDR3-1600

Corsair CX430m

LATEST PICS:

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I gutted the system.


the case without guts.
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Look at that dust!
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all clean!
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Fan bracket thingy
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after gutting it, i took a while to ponder how i was going to add the motherboard standoffs,because the original ones were in non-standard positions. i ended up deciding to drill through the side panel and use a bolt and nuts.

original standoffs

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my standoff :D

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tray with my standoffs installed and electrical tape over old ones to prevent shorting.

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cool shot of a standoff installed

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Time for the system to come out of the old case!

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Beautiful cable knot! :D

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well, that's it for now, even though the system is done, i still have yet to take pics of it all installed and working.

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also, sorry for the potato pics, my mom borrowed her DSLR to someone, so i had to use an old point-and-shoot :(

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This looks like fun!

yes, it was rather enjoyable. the only no-fun parts were all the issues i didn't see coming when actually building in the case. i'll explain in the next update.

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yes, it was rather enjoyable. the only no-fun parts were all the issues i didn't see coming when actually building in the case. i'll explain in the next update.

Could tell, so much proprietary design goes into everything Apple makes. But it's the balls and patience to get past it that counts :D

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Do i see a hackintosh?! 

Go veg.

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Do i see a hackintosh?! 

no. IMO a hackintosh is not worth it, at least for this build. i would rather keep my windows machine. if i need OSX i can use my mom's iMac. maybe someday though... 

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS GPU: AMD r680M / RX 6700S RAM: 16GB DDR5 

 

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I love it, but I'm going to be completely honest. That dust bunched up in the bottom of the case made me gag.

 

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no. IMO a hackintosh is not worth it, at least for this build. i would rather keep my windows machine. if i need OSX i can use my mom's iMac. maybe someday though... 

 

To bad. Still, good luck with your build!

Go veg.

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very nice !  this should totally be a build of the week xD

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Aw yeah I almost forgot about G3's. This is going to be fun to watch this progress!
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PART 2!!!

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So this is a pic of the system with everything installed and working. I will explain the snags along with pictures below.

Ok, so the first hitch in my master plan was that my dummy mobo and my main mobo had very slightly different i/o positions, with the main mobo being slightly lower than the dummy. This was a problem because the audio jacks on the dummy just barely fit inside the bottom edge of the i/o shield area. I ended up having to grind down the edge of the area to make it fit.

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The next issue was with my sata power cables from my psu. They are all right angle connectors. Because of this i had to ghetto-mount my hard drive back behind the fan/cable management bracket instead of on the mounts on the bottom of the case.

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The last issue was with my power supply and the power supply mount at the back of the case. Unfortunately, to mount my psu in the psu mount, I would have to have the fan facing the back side of the case, suffocating the psu. So what I did was take the back end of an old psu i had lying around and took the power jack from the old psu, and an lid power cable i had, and put them together to make a pass through cable. I made it extra long in case i decide to mount the psu elsewhere. This also means that the psu isn't screwed in. So I took som rubber feet off an old tv and put them beneath and on the back side to prevent it from slipping around. The way the lock on the top of the case is positioned, the psu cant actually go anywhere, so it will be fine for now.

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So that's all the problems that occurred during this build, now for some shots of the case in its full glory.

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I may add an io shield at some point, but right now I'm too lazy :P

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[spoiler]PART 2!!!

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So this is a pic of the system with everything installed and working. I will explain the snags along with pictures below.

Ok, so the first hitch in my master plan was that my dummy mobo and my main mobo had very slightly different i/o positions, with the main mobo being slightly lower than the dummy. This was a problem because the audio jacks on the dummy just barely fit inside the bottom edge of the i/o shield area. I ended up having to grind down the edge of the area to make it fit.

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The next issue was with my sata power cables from my psu. They are all right angle connectors. Because of this i had to ghetto-mount my hard drive back behind the fan/cable management bracket instead of on the mounts on the bottom of the case.

attachicon.gifimage.jpg

The last issue was with my power supply and the power supply mount at the back of the case. Unfortunately, to mount my psu in the psu mount, I would have to have the fan facing the back side of the case, suffocating the psu. So what I did was take the back end of an old psu i had lying around and took the power jack from the old psu, and an lid power cable i had, and put them together to make a pass through cable. I made it extra long in case i decide to mount the psu elsewhere. This also means that the psu isn't screwed in. So I took som rubber feet off an old tv and put them beneath and on the back side to prevent it from slipping around. The way the lock on the top of the case is positioned, the psu cant actually go anywhere, so it will be fine for now.

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So that's all the problems that occurred during this build, now for some shots of the case in its full glory.

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I may add an io shield at some point, but right now I'm too lazy :P

this is really awesome xD

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this is really awesome xD

Thanks man! I plan to eventually get a 5.25" bay thingy for for front panel audio and usb, but I'm happy with it for now. It's also WAY quieter than my old case. Like, Way quieter.

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Wish that my old iMac G5 could have been cannibalized to do something like this...

 

Did the old thing use an ATX motherboard? If so, wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to do this? Just curious.

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Wish that my old iMac G5 could have been cannibalized to do something like this...

 

Did the old thing use an ATX motherboard? If so, wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to do this? Just curious.

It was about the same size as an atx board, but I had to install all-new standoffs because it used a completely custom layout.

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It was about the same size as an atx board, but I had to install all-new standoffs because it used a completely custom layout.

Well OK then Apple. WTF kinda motherboard did it use...? 

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Well OK then Apple. WTF kinda motherboard did it use...?

A custom motherboard made specifically for apple. This thing was a 300Mhz powerhouse from 1998. ;)

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A custom motherboard made specifically for apple. This thing was a 300Mhz powerhouse from 1998. ;)

Pretty cool machine to cannibalize I must say. Treat it well!

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Pretty cool machine to cannibalize I must say. Treat it well!

I will! :D i really just need a GPU to put in this bad boy. :D

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I will! :D i really just need a GPU to put in this bad boy. :D

@thekeemo has a 650 for some cheap amount of money ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

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@thekeemo has a 650 for some cheap amount of money ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Yeah, my parents want me to wait until i pass a couple big tests here in January before I get one. :(

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS GPU: AMD r680M / RX 6700S RAM: 16GB DDR5 

 

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