March 2014 – DEVEN JAMES LANGSTON

Start With One Shape

I took Joe’s advice and started with one shape. Then I added another, and another. Pretty soon I ended up with this weird structure. It’s the first thing I rendered on the new PC build. took 37 seconds without Global Illumination… and two hours with.

PLAY

G4 Quicksilver PC Case Mod

Recently I decided to gut an old G4 PowerMac Quicksilver case and replace the innards with a current-generation Windows 8 PC. After much dremeling, drilling, and assembling, I gained a sweet desktop system wrapped in an apple:

powermac g4 quicksilver PC mod windows — Freshly modded PowerMac G4 Quicksilver Windows 8 PC.

innards stuffed with micro ATX board, GTX 650ti, SSD, PSU and case fans.

pc mod g4 quicksilver case — Zalman Heatsink barely fits in case. No need to remove the shelf.

g4 pc mod open view — PSU mounted under shelf with cord running to bottom of case. I put a hole in the shelf for ventilation.

PC mod g4 motherboard standoffs — made custom holes for motherboard standoffs and movement in the plastic door latch.

g4 powermac hack motherboard — had to dremel a space for the bottom audio jacks. in Windows I rerouted the black output as my main for convenience.

quicksilver backside — Still need to add fan grills and a custom backpate

quicksilver fan underneath intake — put a big hole in underside for air intake fan

quicksilver pc hack power cord — used bent power plug to fit clearance underneath.

front panel usb 3 hack — modified front-panel USB 3.0 input

front usb 3 quicksilver pc — USB 3.0 instead of ZIP drive.

rock and roll. it all fits. and it’s aliiive! I shall name him frank.

System Specs:
Motherboard: Biostar Micro ATX 1155
CPU: Intel Haswell i5 3.0 ghz quad-core
RAM: Crucial 16 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz
HD: Crucial M500 120GB SSD
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 650Ti 1GB DDR5

Build time: 10 hours