After having some recent interest in hackintosh computers, I am considering buying an old Power Mac G5 case, gutting it and installing modern components. My main aim is to keep the case original, trying to avoid making any serious modifications. I intend to use the following main components :- Intel Celeron G530 or Pentium G620 From what I understand, these processors are about equivalent to the top-end Core 2 processors, so for DAWs etc it should be fine. Is it worth an extra tenner for a G620? MSI H61I-E35 (B3) mini-ITX Motherboard 4GB DDR3 Dual Channel Memory Regarding the PSU, as I have seen others gut the original insides and install a traditional ATX PSU. I intend to install the guts of a low-power (300w) FSP PSU into it and replace the original 60mm fans with quieter ones. With the I/O panel on the back I wish to leave it unmodified and run the appropriate Ethernet and USB *extension* cables to them and glue them in place (or use some form of mounting method).I have a cheap USB sound card with OpticalIn/OpticalOut/LineOut/LineIn/Mic etc which I intend to gut and use for the ports on the I/O plate. I may just seal off the Firewire ports as it seems pointless spending money adding ports I am unlikely to need. I have spare hard-drives and optical drives that I can use. I am unsure as to what to do with VGA & HDMI ports as they would still be on the motherboard, at the moment modifying a PCI plate and running extension cables to them seems like a reasonable idea. Thats what I have in my mind at current, well other than wondering if I could hide the motherboard behind the plastic G5 CPU cover.. Rant Over Tim
