it's been 84 years
but this
is the home stretch our og g5 case has been cut trimmed
sanded and given a new paint job and it's ready for the final assembly of our
stuffed to the gills hack pro
when we're done today it should be the only hackintosh that's not only capable
of running with the top spec 2019 mac pro
but even capable of overclocking past it
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let's start with a look at our new
custom front panel so instead of usb 2
and firewire we've got two usb 3.0 type
a ports and a 3d printed panel with them
hot glued in place for a mostly seamless look here oh yeah and of
course like the original front audio and
we've got the original power button still in there turning it around gets us
a look at the back panel now this thing
ended up getting broken in the shuffle of turning our workshop into a 3d
printing farm but after some minor repairs some jb weld a comedic number of
binder clips and some sanding it's finally ready to call
done overall fit and finish far exceeds what
my expectations were for this project it's not perfect
nothing is perfect but from a reasonable distance away you would be hard-pressed
to look at this case and go like oh yeah those usb ports aren't supposed to be
there that's not supposed to be an inverted
atx layout one of the goals for this project was to have the original side
panel latching mechanism still intact when we finished and i'm happy to say
that we've achieved that some g5 case mods
just get by with you know screws or whatever else but
we really like this mechanism and we want it to be as g5 like as possible
well you know aside from everything so the first thing we're
going to put in is these modified radiator mounts which are going to allow
for an easier install of our 360 millimeter rad in the front in a normal
pc case obviously you would just screw them in from the front but that would
totally wreck the clean look i don't want it to be obvious oops other than
the color that this is not just
a mac we figured out our fan mounting but we actually realized that the
RGB strips were not in place around the LTT logos after one failed attempt to
put them on we've got another effort ready for you guys here i'm just going
to give it the old oh
yes does that look cool or what ladies and
gentlemen oh it unplugged oh lordy real
hopeful right up in here that everything's gonna actually fit it's the
first time actually laying everything out here uh front hd
audio got that high definition audio gotta try to not get any cables like
right across the logo here all right i think this is it motherboard tray is
going in now hopefully this will be the last time but i imagine we'll have made some sort of
mistake or other wait oh boy we're gonna have to mash some cables flat here boys
the motherboard tray i'm screwing in right now serves two purposes one
is it gives me somewhere to route cables because
unlike the mac pro the hack pro needs cables and number two is it allows us to
adapt the original mounting holes which is what we're screwing into to whatever
standard this is at this point we're ready to start putting hardware in we're
going to start with the radiator that now has
color coordinated anti-vibration doodads on it oh boy it's going to be a tight
fit ladies and gentlemen triple radiator in the g5
oh wow we got to be real careful not to ruin
this here wiring on the power button hey i didn't notice how fragile that is
uh should we put some hot glue on that don't want to accidentally put too much
strain on these really fragile connectors here oh
well that's definitely a tight pressure mount now that we're ready to begin
building in earnest let's run through the hardware we're using i would forgive
you for having forgotten we're using an aorus c621 extreme motherboard with an
Intel xeon w3175x28 core and
check this out a custom vrm water block
that was uh altered for us with two inlets and two outlets because of the
unique design of our case that it needs to fit in we're using a velocity ws
water block that's cut away about three pounds this thing's absolutely
incredible 384 gigabytes of Corsair vengeance lpx
memory and we've got so many expansion cars oh right silverstone strider
platinum 1200 what's super small 1200 watt power supply and then we've got
dual Radeon sevens oh yeah
we've got 10 gigabit networking we've got wireless
networking and bluetooth hopefully macOS compatible and of course to match the
high performance SSD in the mac pro we have a high performance liquid SSD in
our hack pro there's all this water cooling shiz over here a power
supply bracket doodad some underwear lttstore.com i still can't stand
mounting cpus and lga 3647 there's this
see you take the cover off and there's just no mechanism there's this carrier
that you kind of clip onto your cooler or you can put the thing in the clip on
the thing i'm actually just going to ditch the carrier i really don't like it
so i'm going to put the CPU in here a little wiggle wobble get some paste on
here i'm going to be using the the x marks the spot with some extra
decorations method here i wonder what's going to trigger people more my thermal
paste application here or the fact that i'm uh giving my block a little wipey
wipe with my shirt lttstore.com oh yeah
the final meltdown it's the last time we're building this
computer now we can install our RAM obviously 26 66 megahertz RAM is not the
fastest anymore but given that these are 32 gig
sticks and they're running at cl 16. i'm
expecting our performance to be adequately decent and the motherboard
goes in now this is about to get heavy just settled on my lawsuits
these are going to go over to the graphics cards so what you're looking at here is about how clean the cabling is
going to look for the finished rig now it's time to install our wi-fi and
bluetooth cards so wi-fi is handled through the pci express slot and
bluetooth is handled with this usb header so we're going to use the very very top
slot for that this is going to be one aesthetic disadvantage of the hack pro
the fact that it needs things hanging out the back of it
this graphics card is one of the more controversial steps in our build we're
installing it in a pci express 8x slot
rather than a 16x slot we left that full bandwidth slot for our SSD you might
prefer a different approach now i can go ahead and install the first
of our power connectors 10 gig network card goes next what's cool is when we're
done we'll actually still have two expansion slots left in our system need
just a little bit more slack there we go
and graphics card two
is powered up i started up some of the tubing you can see i've got the gpus
plumbed together i've got this one over to the rad this is going to look a little weird you
see this is going to kind of run over here that's because the outlet from the
pump comes over here and then it's got to go into the inlet of the CPU block
last time we tested this we had them the other way around the performance was not
great while i'm working on this i can tell you guys a little bit about the
process of actually painting the case so
step one was stripping the anodizing off of the original case one of the easier
methods is to use easy off oven cleaner
so you spray it on let it sit and wipe it off just in case it's not obvious by
the way be sure to wear personal protective equipment because that stuff
is bad for you also be sure to give the part a good
rinse because otherwise the cleaner is going to continue to eat away at the
aluminum and you don't want that
now instead of hard sanding we opted to use a soft wire wheel to
both rough the surface and to get rid of any excess oxidation from the cleaner it
was a long process but the thing is for any good paint job it's like 80 prep
20 painting so after that it was just a wipe down with isopropyl alcohol to make
sure that it's clean and there's nothing that's going to get in the way of the painted hearing
and it was time for priming with all the pieces laid out it was sprayed a couple
of times lightly then it got a heavier finishing coat being careful not to get
any runs those will show through to your final product unless you let it
completely dry sand it down and then re-coat it which is a real hassle
for paint unfortunately we just used a regular
flat black enamel that you can get at home depot it's not the best but the
upside is that the case actually got painted instead of us just waiting
around forever for the guy who was supposed to do this thing professionally
for us it did have kind of a horrible spray pattern even compared to the
primer that we got from the local paint shop but a few light coats with a heavy
overlap followed by a wet coat and then of course some clear coat to improve its
durability a little bit and we've got what i would consider to be a like a a
three foot paint job like i'd say from outside of three feet
it looks pretty darn good one of these runs is a little tricky here
i gotta get from this guy over to back here
i remember this from last time it was tricky then and it was tricky now these
fittings are great oh yeah we'll have the links to everything we're using in the video description as usual
oh yeah oh yeah i think i gotta take like
a good solid inch off this thing i did not get the length right on that it's
good i think i got it actually there we go this is actually going way smoother
than i expected one what was that
it sounded like something fell didn't it oh here i found it it's fine it's all
good after all this has been through like everything guys like flexing the
arms over the chassis without the paint cracking it kind of kills me to do this
but we told ourselves this is the final build day this is it
so we're putting some 3m vhb tape on the bottom of the radiator
and we are taping it into place i'm so sorry i'm so sorry everyone i
apologize to all of you hold on don't move it i got to move it so that i don't
accidentally clamp down on the tape okay it's in
there easy now all we need is to basically
plug in power and fill it with water i couldn't watch nikolas hot glue in the
power supply cables for our modular power supply i mean what's the point of
a modular power supply if you're going to glue in the cables so i'm going to install our two 8-pin CPU power
connectors while he does that i at least i hope i can this is one's going to be a
little bit tricky to get in here now that i have permanently
taped in the radiator in nicholas's defense he did warn me about this now
we've talked about this in previous installments but we've never actually
shown it working and understandably quite a few of you were confused by how
the modular power supply was supposed to get in here so this
plugs into all these loose cables down here at the bottom
and then screws in from the bottom of the case then the power supply
basically goes
all the clips are cut off so the whole thing just goes in there like that and
is held in by gravity arguably this is not the best
but whatever where's your
g5 hackintosh all right uh what is this for
that is for the can we just cut most of them off yeah we
can ah well we should do that then as long as you cut them short enough that
they can't touch each other you shouldn't have any shorting problems
there see how it looks fine just fine okay well some of the labels fall off
it's fine i'll figure it out put that on there
route kind of over here and around there we go so all this
that's not the most graceful thing ever but it just kind of
just kind of jams in here oh yeah
oh yeah that's fine i ended up having to do a little bit of hot glue surgery on
the interface here after actually installing it in the case but everything
seems to be solid now so let's hope
that this lines up and this will be the last time we put it in hey
there it goes let's hope i put this on the correct way oh look at that i did
that plugs in right there and this is it
this is the first time you guys are seeing
the final configuration
so all the fans are plugged in we're just using y cables so that we can use
the handful of motherboard headers over here to power them the pump is plugged
in we've got the RPM sense over on the CPU opt header over here
we've still got two pci express slots open we would love to use one of them
for Thunderbolt but still some troubleshooting required in order to
find out if that's going to work in the meantime let's fire it up
just kidding just kidding bad jeebies
we're gonna fire it up before we put the side panel on we managed to find two
funnels so i'm kind of thinking is you can't spell funnel without fun
i know it i know it okay
here we go you want to uh plug in the bottom right
angle yeah we need a thing is we need a right angle power
connector on the bottom there because it's kind of low profile i really hope
the power button works two radiators and all this tubing is a lot to fill this is
going to take a few rounds with a tiny reservoir like this we're going for a
continuous fill here now that doesn't sound like a good sign oh we're close
there's lots that can go wrong while assembling a machine of this nature oh
good the RGB logo on the back still works man i gotta say there's something
kind of wrong feeling about disassembling this when we're done like we normally do hey
what are the odds that's going to boot right up into macOS what are the odds
this these fans are running again let me have a look here
nope not yet give it time hold on wow that 80 mil fan just like perfect in
there you and your pressure fits dude i can't say i approve of it
i guess i shouldn't install updates because hackintosh
let's say later remind me tomorrow hey yeah like os updates
heavens no okay cool we're connected to wi-fi though so
that's good we'll see if our wired network is working no way you said the
bluetooth didn't work oh wait spazzing out a little bit okay so we have some
work to do on bluetooth it does not like this mouse but this is also like Corsair
gaming now so you could just not like this mouse should we run a quick
benchmark this thing is darn near silent isn't it oh wow the fans are off oh okay
well that's cool well why don't we do like geekbench mac people like geekbench
right we haven't actually overclocked it at all yet either okay while this is
running three months late and way over budget
3275m here we go 19165 wait why are we so much higher
really are we going to be faster even before we overclock just because we're
water cooled and we can turbo hire dang this is going to be better than i
thought there's a lot of places we lose we have no Thunderbolt yet even now that
this thing is up and running with great performance all that remains is some
software tweaks and driver optimization to get it running as smoothly as
possible oh yeah and some overclocking so it's ready for the big drag race
against the real mac pro 2019 28 core
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