The ATX supply was a no name 430W model with 120mm top blowing fan I had sitting on the shelve. I replaced the original fans with NoiseBlocker 60 mm devices, which are providing enough airflow through the PSU case without nerve wrecking sound. The 2005 model has solid copper bars feeding sideways to the motherboard, so that was kind of cool to use as a opening for the harness, no major metal work to be done. Taking out the original power supply PCB, placing an ATX PCB on 4 short M3 standoffs, fixing the compensation inductor to the base, extending the power inlet wiring, a little shrink tubing, keeping the Apple noise filter in place and opening just a little space in the isolation rubber profile to feed out the ATX harness out of the case pointing straight up to where the ATX board has the connector. Dual boot El Capitan/Win7 with Clover in EFI mode on single SSDĬonverting the PSU was pretty much straight forward.1 NoiseBlocker X1 80mm fan for the PCIe extension slot area.2 NoiseBlocker XR1 60mm fans for the PSU.Exsys EX 16450 firewire PCIe card (works OOB with El Capitan!).beQuiet cooling tower with 120mm low noise fan.
#USED MAC G5 QUAD UPGRADE#
#USED MAC G5 QUAD PC#
The main board (a Gigabyte H97) was already in service as Hackintosh system for a good year, in a decent, but not quite appropriate PC style case considering an almost all Apple household. (My other G5 case came as an empty shell, so I did not have quite as much options) This time I wanted to take it one more step to keep the looks inside as well as to the outside. In fact the unit was fully working, but compared to todays standards it was kind of slow, so with a little heartburn I took it down to the metal to start the work. By accident I got a hold of complete G5 “late 2005” on ebay for a bargain. Last weekend I finished up on my second conversion of a Power Mac G5 Case to accept a mATX motherboard. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB "mutant" flashed graphics display card. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Here's the info:ĭual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled. I also had a question re SCSI cards, and I started another thread for that:ĮDIT: Not sure why my equipment isn't showing, maybe I forgot to ckect the button. I'd like to invest first in RAM to bring the G5 to 16 GB. I wonder if I could use that, at least to begin with. …I'd love to see a better way to power 2-3 SSDs as they consume so little but still use standard SATA power connector (3 would fit in one drive bay otherwise)…ĭo you mean you wish there were a better way but there isn't one?Īs far as the video card, I'm already running a "mutant" flashed card in my G4 (specifically: nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB). I'll definitely look into SSDs, especially one for the primary Photoshop scratch disk, though I don't quite follow this part of your answer: I'd give the G5 a thorough cleaning, inside and out, and write its HD drives to zero. I've been a satisfied OWC customer for many years, so I'm very familiar with them.Ĭoincidentally, I'm already running my gear through two APC 1500XS UPS units.
Primaryly to run Photoshop CS4 and VueScan. …Depends on what you will be using it for… Thank you for another very welcome and useful reply, Hatter.