Im a huge asus fan. always have liked their ROG stuff and i have owned most of their ROG boards. I had this mac g5 case laying around and thought i'd make use of it instead of wasting money buying a case. thought it would give me something to do as well. i've seen alot of these mac mods but everyone always just cuts a hole in the back and slides in a mobo tray and calls it a day. not good enough for me. i want mine to look like it came that way...AND i dont want it to scream MAC when you look at it. how am i gonna do that you say?....
the first challenge is the rear panel. like i said, i dont just want to cut a big ass hole in the back and slide in a mountainmods mobo tray and call it a day. i want it to look like it came from the factory to support the hardware im putting in it. luckily i have 2 g5 cases......... so i took them apart and used 2 front panels. the case is made of 2 L shaped pieces that make up 4 of the 6 sides. with little modification you can use 2 front/top L shaped pieces so thats what i did. after i got that together i lined up the back panel for the mobo and cards then cut it out of the case. problem... theres a slot where the dvd used to be. solution.... fill it in with scrap cut from the rear panel. crap... another problem, the side panel is held on by a locking mechanism in which the latch assembly is mounted in the rear of the case. solution... skin graft the mechanism into the new rear panel. i fabricated a motherboard tray from an old antec tower parts i had laying around. cut some sheet aluminum to use for the front panel to mount dual 140mm fans for airflow. case will be split into sections... 1 for drives and psu, one for cards, and one for cpu and ram. more on this later. psu will be mounted up top like usual. dvd drive will be mounted in factory apple style but im fabricating a bracket to mount the hard drives(2) right above the dvd drive.
i bet at this point if you havent already skipped to the pictures your dying to see some pretty soon so here you go....
this wont do....
notice the 2 fronts...
stock back VS Fits modified front...
hardware!
Build specs....
Asus Maximus III Formula
Intel i5 655k
Asus 6950 2gb DCuII
OCZ ZT650 psu
WD 640gb blue
WD 1tb green
im looking into airbrushing one side of the case to have the asus rog logo ripping through the side. of course.... the inner section of the case(top, bottom, front, back) will be black and the outter shell will be white. should look pretty sick.
one thing i had to do to make the back panel look like it came the way im making it is to patch up the slot where the dvd drive was, remember this was the front of the 2nd case.
just had to cut 2 peices to match up to the hole pattern then epoxy them in place. once dry i can drill out the hole pattern and you'll never know it was there after a bit of paint.
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