Another one from the archives – stumbled across these images from way back in January 2010. You can get the idea of how everything pieces together. Think I only kept the more pristine looking images after all the main cuts were done and I could tidy the shell up. Reading this is getting me in the mood for something new…. Intel i3 / Mac Classic case media server perhaps?…..
Hackintosh Hardware -
- Dual 2Ghz PPC Powermac – DOA so gutted for the pristine case. Got lucky with this one for £30 on ebay
- Retail OSX Snow Leo
- Intel Core i5 750 cpu
- Gigabyte P55M-UD2 ( p55 chipset – no headaches )
- Corsair HX series modular PSU
- 4 x 2Gb Crucial i5 1333mhz DDR3
- 2 x Samsung 1Tb F3 Hdds
- 1 x Pioneer SATA DVD rewriter ( had it in the spares draw but up to date spec )
- Palit 9500 GT Silent VGA/DVI/HDMI
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 rev2 PWM fan/heatsink
- 1 x LIAN LI aluminium HDD drive cage
- 1 x Coolermaster Wavemaster motherboard tray direct from Coolermaster NL ( many thanks to their superb customer service & warehouse team, they went digging through the warehouse to find me what was probably the last one in Europe and DHL’d next day. And a shout again to Aquamac for pointing me in the right direction ).
So this was a pretty charmed mod. The finished machine had everything 100% operational, rock solid Snow Leopard install, original G5 front panel was wired in, sleep working just like a real Mac and it was very fast indeed. Hardware was pretty easy to chop up, maybe practice on a spare case first though and not attempt this as a first project. It would have killed me to wreck that pristine G5 case just through lack of experience.