- 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.
And when we're done,
you're gonna know all about our sponsor,
Ridge wallet.
Ridge wallet wants to redefine the wallet
with its compact fRAMe and RFID blocking plates.
Check out how they can keep wallet bolts down.
And use the offer code Linus
to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping.
(up beat music)
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 J-B 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 mechanisms,
still intact when we finished.
And I'm happy to say that we've achieved that.
Some G5 case mods just get by with screws or whatever else.
But we really like this mechanism
and we want it to be as G5 like as possible.
Well aside from everything.
So the first thing we're gonna put in
is these modified radiator mounts,
which are gonna 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 other than the color
that this is not just a Mac.
We figured out our fan mounting,
but we actually realized that the (clears throat)
RGB strips were not in place around LTT logos.
After one failed attempt to put them on,
we've got another effort ready for you guys here.
I'm just gonna 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.
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 trays going in now,
hopefully this'll be the last time,
but I imagine we'll have made some sort of mistake
or other wait,
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
'cause 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 gonna start with the radiator that now has
(clears throat)
color coordinated anti-vibration doodads on it.
Oh boy it's gonna be a tight fit ladies and gentlemen.
Triple radiator in the G5.
Oh wow.
We've gotta be real careful not to ruin this here.
Wiring on the power button.
I didn't notice how fragile that is.
Should we put some hot glue on that?
Don't wanna accidentally put too much strain
on these really fragile connectors here.
Well that's definitely a tight pressure map.
Now that we're ready to begin building an earnest,
let's run through the hardware we're using.
I would forgive you for having forgotten.
We're using an Aorus C621 Xtreme motherboard
with an Intel Xeon W-3175X 28 core.
And,
check this out,
a custom VRM waterblock that was 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 waterblock.
That's kinda heavy though three pounds.
This thing's absolutely incredible.
384 gigabytes
of Corsair Vengeance LPX memory.
And we've got so many expansion cards.
Oh right.
SilverStone Strider Platinum 1200 Watts,
super small 1200 watt power supply.
And then we've got dual radeon 7s
Oh yeah.
We've got 10 gigabit networking.
We've got wireless networking and Bluetooth,
hopefully Mac iOS 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 sheets over here
and power supply,
bracket doodads,
underwear lttstore.com.
I still can't stand mounting CPUs and LGA 3647.
You take the cover off and there's just no mechanism.
There's this carrier that you kinda clip onto your cooler.
Or you can put the thing in the clip on the thing.
I'm actually just gonna ditch the carrier.
I really don't like it.
So I'm gonna put the CPU in here
and a little wiggle wobble,
get some paste on here.
I'm gonna be using the X marks the spot
with some extra decorations method here.
I wonder what's gonna trigger people more.
My thermal paste application here
or the fact that I'm a giving my block,
a little wipy wipe with my shirt lttstore.com.
Oh yeah.
♪The final mount down ♪
Its the last time we're building this computer.
Now we can install our RAM.
Obviously 2666 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 all my lawsuits.
These are gonna go over to the graphics cards.
So what you're looking at here
is about how clean the cabling is gonna look
for the finished rig.
Now it's time to install our WiFi and Bluetooth cards.
So wifi is handled through the PCI express slot,
and Bluetooth is handled with this USB header.
So we're gonna use the very, very top slot for that.
This is gonna be one aesthetic disadvantage of the Hack Pro.
The fact that it needs these hanging out in 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 band with 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 too 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 gonna look a little weird.
You see this is gonna kinda run over here.
That's 'cause the outlet from the pump comes over here.
And then it's gotta 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 gonna 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 gonna get in the way
of the paint adhering.
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 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 the back here.
I remember this from last time it was tricky then
and it is tricky now.
These fittings are great.
We'll have the links to everything we're using
in the video description as usual.
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?
Sounded like something fell didn't it?
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 three MVHB 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 gotta 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 Nicholas hot gluing
the power supply cables for our modular power supply.
What's the point of a modular power supply
if you're gonna glue in the cables.
So I'm gonna install our two eight pin CPU power connectors
while he does that.
I at least I hope I can.
This is one's gonna 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,
chwank!
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.
We're still on
G5 Hackintosh, right?
What is this for?
- [Nicholas] That is for the...
- Can we just cut most of them off?
- [Nicholas] Yeah, you can.
- 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.
See how it looks fine just fine table.
Some of the labels off.
It's fine I'll figure it out.
Put that on there,
Reroute kind of here and around.
There we go.
So all this,
that's not the most graceful thing ever,
but it just kinda just kinda 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'll be the last time we put it in.
Hey! There it goes.
Let's hope I put this on the correct way.
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 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 gonna work.
In the meantime, let's fire it up.
Just kidding.
Bad GBs.
We're gonna fire it up before we put the side panel on.
We managed to find two funnels.
So I'm kinda thinking is,
you can't spell funnel without fun.
I know it.
Okay.
Here we go.
You wanna plug in the bottom right angle?
Yeah we need a
thing is we need a right angle power connector
on the bottom there.
Cause 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 gonna 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.
We're close.
It's lots that can go wrong
while assembling a machine of this nature.
The RGB logo on the back still works.
Now 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 it's gonna boot right up into Mac OS?
What are the odds these fans are running again.
Let me have a look here.
Nope, not yet.
You 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.
(Nicholas laughs)
I guess I shouldn't install updates
because Hackingtosh say later remind me tomorrow.
Hey yeah like OS updates heavens no.
Okay, cool.
We're connected to wifi 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 of course our gaming mouse.
It 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 geek bench,
Mac people like geek bench right?
We haven't actually overclocked it at all yet either.
While this is running three months late
and way over budget.
3275 and here we go, 19,000 165.
Wait, why are we so much higher?
Really?
Are we gonna be faster even before we overclock
just because we're water cooled and we can turbo higher.
Dang! This is gonna be better than I thought.
There's a lot of places we lose.
We have no Thunderbolt yet even.
(Nicholas laughs)
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.
Make sure you're subscribed.
So you don't miss that.
If you're looking for something else to watch
in the meantime,
check out the series of videos,
chronicling the (laughs) epic build up of this puppy.
And hey also maybe consider checking out our sponsor.
You think you don't need a website?
Well of course you do.
And with Squarespace,
it's easy to make a website that you can do
almost anything with.
They've got award-winning templates.
That'll help your website stand out.
Instead of looking like it's from the nineties.
So if you're looking to open a business online,
selling products they've got you covered.
You can showcase what you're selling in a modern style.
They've got inventory management.
There's no limit to how many items you wanna sell.
And even we use Squarespace,
both our Linusmediagroup.com
and LTX expo websites were built quickly using Squarespace.
If you ever get stuck,
they've got a 24 seven support team
that's ready to help you out via live chat and email.
So don't wait.
Go to squarespace.com/LTT to get 10% off today.
I can't believe it works.
The LTT logo looks freaking awesome.
And you guys said it would never be done.