Note that my school had already taken most user serviceable parts. The third pic is the case without the airflow guide. It has a plastic cover that serves as an airflow guide. So with that in mind, I came up with these parts.
First, I had a pump and 240mm rad left over from when I watercooled my main computer and I wanted to reuse these parts. I want to watercool this PC for two reasons. This computer definately needed a quad core CPU because I'm going to be editing video on it and video encoding is extremely parallel. And I don't really have a budget for this mod, but I'm paying for most of it, so the cheaper, the better. I want this computer to be mistaken for a regular Mac. As cool as a window would be, no external mods for this one. So no external mods beyond what's necessary. The second requirement means that I don't want to touch the exterior of the case.
And with that, I started researching and planning out this mod. So the primary usage of this computer would be video editing. So then it hit me that I could use the computer from this mod at school for the class. I wasn't really looking forward to video editing on a dual 2GHz G5 in the 'Mac Lab'. Coincidentally, I'm going to be taking a self-study class on video editing next year. So right before school let out, I asked if I could have it because it wasn't being used. So wouldn't it be cool to put a regular computer in the Mac case? After a bit of searching, I found many other cases (pun lol ) of this mod. Well, in order to install XP, you'd need a regular (x86) system in there. He said that it would be really funny to install XP on one of the Macs so when someone turned it on, it'd be Windows instead of Mac OS. The idea to put a PC inside of the Mac case came from a joke between me and the head computer admin at my school. I asked why that was and I found out that it was apparently broken. So I saw this Mac G5 in my school's 'Mac Lab' that wasn't connected to anything. This thread will be dedicated to documenting my progress as I move through this project. Putting PC components inside of an Apple G5 case.
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