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Its up and running Leopard. The desktop picture is Tiger. Leopard’s default desktop picture is the ugliest I’ve seen.
Another shot a little from the rightside.
3-D shot of the Quicksilver case.
Rear section. Notice the drop-down door is not fully closed? It’s because the CPU cooler’s 25mm thick fan hits the power supply box by about 2 mm more than the required height. Not a big deal for me since the drop-down door can still be closed down. The IO panel was made from 1.5 mm acrylic sheet. It was not screwed on or glued. It can be detached anytime. The hole I made on the plastic cover for the AC socket can be seen.Not good though.
Complete assembly viewed from the front.
Complete assembly viewed from behind.
Full 3-D shot.
Apple OEM hardrive pulled from MacPro.
Power supply cables, IDE extender cable for the DVD drive.
Modified optical drive. Also shown are the two 80mm exhaust fans.
Cooler Master CPU cooler. Made from aluminum fins with copper base and 4 heat pipes.
Videocard is Galaxy Nvidia 7600GS with Zalman cooler. Also shown is Buffalo 3 port Firewire card.
4 SATA hardrives. 1X 250 GB bootdrive, 1X 500 GB for Files and 2X 250GB for RAID 0.
Cheap 120mm intake fan but it’s quiet.
RAM modules with KAMA WINGS pure copper heat spreader.
Motherboard SATA ports and cables.
Exhaust fans with gold-plated grills. The original top plastic cover is not attached.
This was during testing of components.
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Jagull | June 24, 2008 at 4:57 am
hi, i’m contemplating on doing this mod but first have a few questions:
- Is there enough air circulating in that case to cool the cpu?
- i noticed that the fan (intake?) on the psu is facing the case, will it not face the other way?
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ninjatosh | June 25, 2008 at 12:59 am
hi Jagull, if you notice, I placed two 80 mm fan on the top of the case. These suck out the warm air. (remember that warm air goes upward while cool air stays at the bottom). If you’re referring on that 120 mm blue fan, that is not a PSU fan, that is the case fan and it is facing toward the inside of the case to suck cool air from the outside and blows it to the interior. The cool air from the outside cools the interior of the case, then the warm air is blown out by the two 80 mm exhaust fan on the top of the case. Originally, the Quicksilver case has that 120 mm fan as exhaust but it just created more heat. All Powermacs had these 120 mm as intake fan except the Quicksilver models. Perhaps the engineers who designed the Quicksilver case were drunk (^0^)
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Jagull | June 25, 2008 at 11:49 pm
sweet thanx
another question, any idea on what the total height of your hsf is? perhaps a smaller one will avoid the latch not-closing all-the-way problem
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ninjatosh | June 27, 2008 at 12:23 am
Yes a smaller one would solve the problem but I prefer the coioler master heat sink fan. Its dead quiet. Anyway, the problem is not severe. The OEM Core2Duo heatsink and fan doesn’t come in contact with the PSU when closing the latch so you can use that for reference. In fact, if you’re in a cold country, the OEM CPU heatsink and fan is more than enough to cool your processor. Enjoy!
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Gelo | August 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
Galing ang nagdala yung halaman sa ibabaw ng CPU… hehehehe
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ninjatosh | August 8, 2008 at 11:47 am
booooooooooo!
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Mike | December 16, 2008 at 3:18 am
Hi Kenji, I saw your comments on the pinoymac.org site regarding upgrading a PC Radeon to Mac. I’ve been reading as much as I can to find out exactly how to do this.
The card: PC Radeon 9800 XT. I see the bios and ROM version I need on The Mac Elite site, which Mac revisions will work with this card etc.
But, I’m not that technically proficient, I just want the card to work in my DP G5 with full power. I don’t understand how to remove the 64k chip safely, and then replace it with a 128k chip to accommodate the larger Mac Rom. Do you have any idea how this is done. Please help. I’m not really sure where to begin? Thanks.
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ninjatosh | January 3, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hi Mike, to be honest, since I have already migrated to Intel Macs, I totally abandoned flashing PC cards to wok in PPC Macs. I think I can’t help you with this one coz I no longer have a test machine. I had sold all my PPC Macs and I’m now using MacPro as my main machine and this Hackintosh as backup. As far as I recall, 9800 XT works on G5 without any taping of the #3 and #11 contact pins since it is already 8X AGP, you don’t need to replace the 64k ROM with 128k ROM, just use the reduced ROM. Also use the 128 MB version, don’t use the 256 MB version. Use a PC for flashing, its safer than using a Mac. I’ll try to check my files if I still have all the flashing files and instructions, if I find it, I can e-mail it to you but I don’t carry any responsibilities if you bork your card. Will get you updated later. Thanks for dropping by!
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Nektar | February 11, 2009 at 7:47 pm
well done. I have used your QS as a guide for my hackintosh. I only need to cut out some cd cage metal and dvd and i’m done.
How much did you cut out?
Very nice machine.
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ninjatosh | March 12, 2009 at 10:23 am
Thanks Nektar, I think I cut out only a small amount. Just be careful when cutting out. Avoid using rotary instruments. BIts of plastic may get inside the housing and may clog movable parts. I used soldering iron to melt down the plastic case.