Ok sorry for the lack of updates I have been super busy getting this machine up and running! Hope you enjoyed the post, more updates as they come!

These are the parts that are going into the machine, I have 98% of them apart from my Wifi and Bluetooth and front I/O cable which I have ordered from BlackCH.

This is the motherboard tray in place, its not secured down yet but gives you a good idea of what it will look like! It does come with a black piece of metal for the fan grill but I chose to replace this with a chrome grill which looks much better! This is the Lian Li motherboard tray, its really very nice, it comes with standoffs and all necessary screws. Here is the back cut out for the Lian Li motherboard tray, I have decided to keep the original G5 stand offs and just drill holes to mount it internally. The Olympic road cycle race was on, the iPad and BBC sport's website came in handy! The aluminium is really easy to cut through! To make the cuts I used a coping saw and a small hack saw. I quickly gutted the machine and started cutting the back out! This is the G5 i bought, it was a Dual 2.0Ghz 2004 system with a dead motherboard. The iMacs are wonderful machines but haven't been updated with Ivy Bridge and the Mac Pro while a beautiful machine is way out of my price range! The MBP will be changed for an Air and as such I needed a new main desktop mac. I needed a new machine as my ageing MacBook Pro 15' 2009 is not practical for storing my photos or carrying around everyday! I finally decided to build my own mac, I have been a very happy Apple user since 2006 and I love Apples machines.

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