Somewhen 2008 I've bought a cleaned out Power Mac G5 case from a nice austrian guy. I had vague plans to make it into a PC case but hadn't really looked for info how other people did that. Turned out that it wasn't really easy to turn such a case into a normal PC case, at least if you still want to use the normal ports on the mainboard or want your front panel to work. So I neglected the to project and the case turned into a small table beside the couch.
5 years later, I stumbled upon the site of Laser Hive from the UK and found their amazing collection of modding kits. I sensed the possibility to get more out of the case then a table and ordered a 'G5 full ATX kit with 120 fan, lower PCI-e slots and power connector hole (b)' and some parts for a bit over 100€.
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Yes, that is a serial port. =) |
Some specialities I want to mention:

I felt I need a reset switch and glued on in at the bottom of the case. All but invisible, but easy to reach.

Um, yeah, I'm looking for a better solution.


And the DVD burner tray needed it's front removed to fit through the gap.
Looks great under the desk and performs well as a Hackintosh (well, it did that already...)
For completeness, the hardware:
- Intel i5-2600
- Gigabyte z68x-ud3h-b3
- Gigabyte Geforce GTX 660
- 8GB Ram
- 128GB SSD, 2x 500GB HDD (Mirror)
- Optiarc DVD AD-7260S
- 660W Chieftec PSU
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