Power mac g5 conversion kit Pc#
Part of the problem here is that the Pi and the router are powered by the main PC power supply, and neither have a power-down sequence linked to the PC. I also thought I would put in a Raspberry Pi inside the case as well to automate various tasks, and perhaps run Pi-Hole as well, but I don’t really use it much. This means that if either the WiFi or the Ethernet into my PC fails, the system will stay connected with no downtime. However, the combination of the Mikrotik and the Ubiquiti router gives me the option to set up the network with a redundant connection to another network. The Mikrotik router is usually in access point mode, which lets any wireless device (typically ESP-01 modules) to connect to the test network. This setup gives me a reliable switched network where I can assign static DHCP mappings and snoop all of the traffic without restriction. This is very helpful, as I do a lot of projects where I need a controlled network environment for testing, and I am not always network admin in my building. They can be wired to the original power supply fan header, but I didn’t want to take chances, so my fans are wired to be on all the time.Īnother neat feature of this PC is that it has a built-in Ubiquiti router and Mikrotik mAP Lite that can act as both a station and an access point. The original PSU cooling fans were very noisy, so I replaced them with some 12V ones from my junk/salvages pile. I took the precaution of discharging all the capacitors through an electronic load before doing the conversion, and lined the insides of the original casing with acetate. I would not recommend doing this, as the capacitors in ATX supplies can hold their charge for weeks after they have been unplugged. Instead, I decided to re-house a modern power supply inside the shell of the old case. Unlike many of the G5 conversions online, I wanted to keep the original power supply that sits across the bottom of the case, but the original PowerMac power supply is terribly loud and inefficient.
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The one part of this project that was slightly sketchy was re-housing the original power supply. The internals are significantly different to the original PowerMac G5, but I am still using the perspex cover and the original fan shroud, just to maintain the aesthetic. This was considerably more effort those conversion kits you can get online, but is much prettier in my opinion.
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I also made a custom sheet metal ATX conversion plate to sit in the back, which leaves most of the back casing intact. The original front panel buttons and headphone jack are used, but the firewire ports have been neatly replaced with USB 3.0. My primary aim when building the Hackintosh was to make it look as much like an original PowerMac G5 as possible. It is by no means a particularly powerful computer (the original PC build was done in 2013), but it does have a few unique features that set it apart from most computers. This will be a brief article: I have had a few people enquire about the ‘Mac Pro’ that’s sitting under my desk, and I thought I could give some of the technical details here.