I just replaced a G5 case. Sweet Mother of Steve Jobs, who designed these cases? Two things are apparent: 1) everything, down to the fasteners, is first class and built to last, and 2) it better last cause it's a beast to work on! I can swap out a G4 motherboard and have it up and running in under an hour but this project took me the better part of 2 days. Several years ago I bought a G5 with a mangled case off the LEM Swap List, I got it running and then hit upon a great solution for the ugly, damaged case- I bought a 28" monitor and set it in front of the G5, problem solved! Didn't even need duct tape. A few months later I purchased an empty case from the Swap List, which sat in my parts closet a year or two. I finally got around to switching over the mobo, power supply, fans, the whole works. It's up and running after about 8 hours labor and an unproductive trip to several hardware and auto parts stores looking for a 6" 2.5mm hex driver. The specs: DP 1.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM (with copper heat spreaders), Airport Extreme card, GeForce 7800 GS 256 MB (flashed pc) video card, Firmtek SATA pci card with 4 internal ports, one patched to an eSATA port, generic USB2 4-port card. There is a Sonnet Jive 5 with 3 WD 320 GB SATA drives in a RAID 0 configuration which is giving me trouble, if I don't get it running soon it will be the subject of my next post.
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