Back around 2009 I was at a friends when I saw his old PowerMac G5 his parents got him back in high school that he broke and never used... as it was sitting there I asked him if I could buy it, he said take it away please since he wanted more room.. he was only using it to prop up his Xbox at the time. His parents had gotten him a few Apple computers over the years and this was the one I always liked... I forget if the PowerMac G5 was connected to the big colorful Apple monitor he had or if that Apple Monitor was a completely different system.
I took it home and tested it and kept getting errors, as cool as it was I decided to gut it out and build a PC in it. I immediately realized "Crap this isn't meant for a PC" and had to start thinking outside the box... or inside it for that matter.
I believe the G5 came with a chassis/mount like board that slid out and I think that's what I was able to put my motherboard onto.. or I used one from a different PC ATX tower that fit.. either way I got it in with little trouble. The issue was mounting and keeping it sturdy.. I may have tapped 1 or 2 screws but can't recall it was so long ago. What I do know is that I used quite a bit of plastic EZPass Velcro.. like enough to hold a lot of weight and it worked 100%. I think that is another reason I leave it sideways as firstly it wouldn't even stand up under this desk @ 22" inches tall.. I may have had it upright briefly but decided to go sideways when I got a newer desk that it couldn't stand up under.
The last few months I have been upgrading my newest PC as this is the 2nd or 3rd system to call this case Home, I've wanted to clean it up. I could never get the USB/Power Button to work on the case so I just hid them with the brand stickers hehe. I initially had a basic Power On/Off switch dangling out of the 3.5" slot I cut under the CD-Tray to allow an AIO Media Front-Panel that was very beneficial at the time as I needed front USB.
Here are some old pictures from the first days and eventually when I got that 1st system in I sort of gave up heh.
I apologize for all the links.. I will try to edit/modify but I didn't want to load the post with too many large images.
Around 2018 I relocated this system to a standard cheap ATX tower and gave it to my parents. It was on the ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard and was easy to swap out for what I currently have. I will just make a separate post with the updated pictures and latest system.
I took it home and tested it and kept getting errors, as cool as it was I decided to gut it out and build a PC in it. I immediately realized "Crap this isn't meant for a PC" and had to start thinking outside the box... or inside it for that matter.
I believe the G5 came with a chassis/mount like board that slid out and I think that's what I was able to put my motherboard onto.. or I used one from a different PC ATX tower that fit.. either way I got it in with little trouble. The issue was mounting and keeping it sturdy.. I may have tapped 1 or 2 screws but can't recall it was so long ago. What I do know is that I used quite a bit of plastic EZPass Velcro.. like enough to hold a lot of weight and it worked 100%. I think that is another reason I leave it sideways as firstly it wouldn't even stand up under this desk @ 22" inches tall.. I may have had it upright briefly but decided to go sideways when I got a newer desk that it couldn't stand up under.
The last few months I have been upgrading my newest PC as this is the 2nd or 3rd system to call this case Home, I've wanted to clean it up. I could never get the USB/Power Button to work on the case so I just hid them with the brand stickers hehe. I initially had a basic Power On/Off switch dangling out of the 3.5" slot I cut under the CD-Tray to allow an AIO Media Front-Panel that was very beneficial at the time as I needed front USB.
Here are some old pictures from the first days and eventually when I got that 1st system in I sort of gave up heh.
I apologize for all the links.. I will try to edit/modify but I didn't want to load the post with too many large images.
Around 2018 I relocated this system to a standard cheap ATX tower and gave it to my parents. It was on the ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard and was easy to swap out for what I currently have. I will just make a separate post with the updated pictures and latest system.
