Overall, this was a very straight forward and easy mod. This power supply is not modular, so I have a mess of cables that I will have to "clean up" later. This is the final (mostly) pic of the inside. The only small issue I have with opening it is that it needs a little jimmying, but that is ok. Here is the back of the case after all the parts were cleaned and reassembled. I think white is positive and blue is negative. No worries, I just switched the plugs for the reset button plugs, worked like a charm. Soldering and cutting done! I think I messed up on the top power button, later testing revealed it didn't work.
I have to cut the connections to prevent shorts, and I have to solder the proper buttons. Now, when I close the case, the motherboard does not get caught there in the corner.īecause of the alignment of the motherboard, I had to bend the case in a little at the top so as to make clearance for the PS/2 ports even though I am not using them.
I made the right choice and trimmed the case and not the motherboard (YAY!).
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I had a debate in another thread on how to solve this problem. No worries, there is plenty holding this board in place! Unfortunately two of the five screws did not stay, but then again they were not properly mounted it turned out. I used the weight to help it stay in place. I also did this so the graphics card would line up nicely. I wanted to keep the audio ports, and to do so I had to give up my PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard ports (not a big loss). Sorry I didn't get a pre-mod pic, I was in a bit of an excited hurry.ĭid quite a rough cut on this. Here is the case with all the sides removed.
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From this, and a ton of reading through other mod threads, I had a feel for the alignment. Here I laid down the motherboard to make sure I could see how it aligned roughly.
The hard drive is a spare I had lying around, I plan on upgrading it and dual booting this in the future. Graphics: Zotac Geforce GTX 560 1024MB (new part) RAM: 8GB of Patriot Extreme Gaming 800 Mhz DDR2 I had some old parts I wanted to throw together (from a previous rig which I upgraded), and I had a case someone had given me (thanks shadowvox from ******!). Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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