The Fastest Apple G4 Cube Hackintosh in the World - i9 9900k Case Mod
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2020
- The most beautiful Apple computer ever made is the Apple G4 Cube. Some people make fun of it as being impractical. I don't understand it because it's perfect.
I take mine apart and stuff it with an Intel i9 9900k processor and build my Dream Computer.
Come tour this Hackintosh in the most stunning case ever, with the best consumer computer chip ever (definitely not true), in the fastest modded Hackintosh in the world (might be true? …for now).
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Build Parts List (with affiliate links!)
CPU: Intel Core i9 i9-9900K
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Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z390-I Gaming (RETURNED) - (Link for Z490)
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Motherboard: ASRock Motherboard (Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AC)
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Storage: Samsung 970 EVO 2TB - NVMe PCIe M.2
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Storage: Intel 660p M.2 2280 2TB NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 3D NAND
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GPU: MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB
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RAM: Ballistix Sport LT 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 3200
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Power Supply: FSP Group Mini ITX Solution/Flex ATX 80 Plus Gold 400W - amzn.to/3q4gtUO
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i
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Front Panel Power Button: Computer Motherboard ATX Power Reset Switch HDD LED Bundle
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WiFi Card: Dell DW1560 Broadcom BCM94352Z M.2/NGFF 802.11AC 867Mbps Bluetooth 4.0 WIFI Card (Not the one I used, but has same part #)
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Riser Cable: EZDIY-FAB PCIe3.0 16x Flexible Cable Riser Card (25cm)
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Intake Fans: 2 x Noctua NF-A4x20 PWM, Premium Quiet Fan, 4-Pin (40x20mm, Brown)
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Exhaust Fan: Noiseblocker NB-BlackSilentPro PC-P 80mm x 15mm Ultra Silent PWM Fan
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Power Cord: Tripp Lite Computer Power Cord 10A, Left 6-ft
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-- Accessories --
Keyboard: Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad
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Mouse: Apple Magic Mouse 2
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-- Tools --
Other: Novus 7100 Plastic Polish Kit - 8 oz. (Super important not to scratch your plastic!)
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Other: ARCTIC MX-4 - Thermal Compound Paste
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Other: WEN 23072 Variable Speed Cordless Rotary Tool Kit
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Other: Miluakee 10" Compact Hack Saw
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Of course the Chassis used was a broken Apple G4 Cube. There is no link to provide as I got it off of eBay. And the price and availability is constantly changing… until Apple releases the Apple Cube again!
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Special Thanks goes out to all those who helped!
Jason Horton for video consulting, lighting, microphone, and general UA-cam questions.
UA-cam - / jasonhorton
Instagram - @thejasonhorton
Sam Kieffer for audio consulting, and general audio questions.
Instagram - @mostfunsam
HACKINTOSH TUTORIALS Morgonaut: Check out her channel for all Hackintosh info! I used her Vanilla install guide UA-cam - / @morgonauthackintosh
Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have questions on the build. - Наука та технологія
With the release of the new M1 Mac mini, it is possible to hack together a G4 cube without any fans and decent thermals.
Was actually thinking this, It would be able to cope with the confined space as well!
What do you meant by desend thermals when the m1 stays super cool with almost zero noise levels in a phin laptop if you manage to put it in the cube with a bigger heatsink you wouldn't need a fan.
If one of you does it, please update the rest of us on it. I would really like to see it.
Instablaster
I just like how detailed you are and how you say you are not an IT expert and you managed to do it, very good video!
Thank you so much! That's super kind! I wanted a beginner's perspective because that's what I am. It was truly a learning experience for me. But it worked out great!
If I have to hear that transition sound one more time, I swear to god I'm going to blow my brains out
Brains? you running some kind of dual socket nervous system?
The noise is most likely from your PSU fan alone. That's a 1u server PSU, servers are kinda noisy because they're not meant to be in the same room as you.
Otherwise this is a really cool video with the basics of computer building well explained for beginners (-;
I'd say it's probably a good idea to keep your thermals below 90 C to expand the lifespan of your parts. You could downclock/undervolt your CPU so it can run at cooler temps.
I'm really impressed by this build, especially with the lack of background knowledge with some of the methods used (which is too relatable, lol) it's refreshing to see someone *working with what they have*. Thanks for sharing this!
Sound advice there with the Bios tweaks as running an i9 in an enclosure this tight is just asking for Chernobyl style meltdown unpleasantness.
Now this is such a cool build. Very underated video
Hi!
This video was really fun to watch. I really felt the excitement you had for the project. Congrats on getting it working!
great video man, super fun and lighthearted. your g4 cube looks stunning!
looking forward to what's to come :p
Ive watched this a few times. This was genuinely one of my favorite build videos. I hope you do another one someday. The delivery and screen presence was amazing for a first video.
That's my dream Hackintosh Mod, just waiting till I can get my hands on a dead free Cube.
I always wondered if a Mac Mini board would fit in one of those.
Congratulations on the work. I've been looking for this project for a long time.
Never laughs so much in a mod video xD
Bonus point for the Hacksaw Jim Duggan reference.
YES! Thank you!! YES!!! Hoooooooooooooo!! Damn I love that guy.
Very enjoyable look at an incredible project! Great work.
Just wanna say, this is so cool. Especially because it seems like most of this was learning as you went and it's just such a cool passion project to go after
Dang you deserve more subs for this quality
Best video I've seen on Cub modding ever.
Cool! Best underrated Hackintosh YT-er
Love it! Tempted to try it myself.
Really liked this video and the small jokes!
I just finished my G5 watercooled mod and now I'm all..... No way I need this cube mod too!!!
Great video man!!!!
Hi, nice video, thank you for sharing. I also own a mac cube, but during the last teardown I got confused.
I have a problem with the screws that secure the handle that allows you to pull the mac out of the case.
There are 4 screws, 2 on each side of the handle, the 2 screws on left side are under the hard disk and airport cable, the 2 screws on right side are easily accessible.
My questions: are the 2 screws on the right side different from 2 on the left side, or are the 2 screws on each side different?
4 identical screw or, two pairs of screws?
thank you very much.
Sorry for my English.
Excellent work and an entertaining presentation. KUDOS!😊
thanks for creating this and with style! would be great to see a follow-up review video of how this has been serving you^^
GG, now turn on one other G4 cube into the m1 Apple Silicon !! 🤣🤣
But the coolers doesn't blow hot air at each other, and have it rise up. They suck the air in towards their respective cooling fins. And in the graphics cards case, the exhaust is now facing down, where the little noctuas are pulling the hot GPU exhaust up into the case again. Impressive build to throw yourself into tho.
Very cool) thanks for such video!
Okay, I LIKE it:) Very clever, great build.
Hey! Thank you kindly. Appreciate the compliments!
excellent job, you have a new subscriber.
Every computer person watching him put an i9 with an rx 560 be like O@O
I couldn't hang with him shoe horning that i9 into a tea caddy like this! Surely some sort of water cooling is needed here as the convection fans alone will just not cut it when he games it.
@@MrDegsy69 I could see that work well with a lower cpu, no way a 120 or smaller will keep an i9 cool, but i5 maybe
Congratulations! Wish I'll do the same with mine!
Id be super happy you out with opencore! Good work my friend! Awesome video!
Nice work !! :)
really 33 subs?, i thought im watching a 100k sub channel.
This is the ProJared of apple computers.
this is the best mini pc i ever seen
Very cool mod and video!
try using Macs Fan control for monitoring thermals and setting custom fan curves.
Nice work
Great and fun video. Thank you.
Great Video!
I subbed because I was super impressed. What graphics card did you use? What was the build cost and what should I do different if I went down that road?
Thanks so much! I just took a picture (actually a bunch of pictures) with high bokeh. They are at this link if you want to use them for some reason: imgur.com/a/qq9tJQf
It was a little over $2000 all in. And of course this was a while back, so there are better motherboards and CPUs and GPUs now. You just have to think about size and what you will use your computer for. Honestly this computer is overkill for just web-browsing and word processing. But for the 10% of the time I'm editing it's worth it!
Great video
Curious about the total cost. I have a working Cube (although needs the “30 sec. hair dryer to the bad capacitor” trick to cold boot - okay after that if always plugged in). I’d love to do this but the time spent getting a Hacintosh working for me is prohibitive. I ‘d also have a hard time convincing my wife that spending almost as much (or more?) as a M1 Mac Mini makes any sense. (I would only use a Quad core i7 with no dedicated video card, so wouldn’t be as much as yours.)
Me meo con la alfombrilla del ratón 😆😆😆😆👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
Subbed. Great content. Question, why not a ryzen? I’m thinking a 5 would run cooler. Great mod, love it. Edit. I should finish coffee before commenting, hackintosh and ryzen might be a bit tough. Hahaha
i have problems with temperatures when i close the case ... i mounted the same fans as you? could you help me ...
non so se hai preso lo stesso i9 ma quel dissipatore è troppo piccolo per una cpu del genere che scalda come il nucleo della terra
Nice build make me want do that to my old g4 cube....be nice if put links to all hardware you used
wow that g4 cube looks so sexy even today... i can tell you've done a lot of research on this and the video is pretty well put together
I am considering doing the same thing to my cube. What GPU did you choose? I would love to replace my huge PC rig with something small, but it has to game. No way I can cram my RTX2070 in there. Maybe run the GPU externally using thunderbolt?
It's a great question about an external GPU! Maybe the thunderbolt could work. Go check out the subreddit r/sffpc for other ideas of cramming gaming PCs into small cases. There are great options for full sized GPUs in smaller cases. OR you can stick with a single blower SFF mini graphics card. There are definitely better cards than the one I used, but, maybe not as good as your RTX2070. For me, it just had to play some video games.
DON"T DO IT!!!
You can definitely reduce the temps a bit more if you undervolt the CPU and GPU. You could look into delidding too, however it might be more trouble than it's worth on the i9. Some people on r/sff have replaced their GPU fan with a noctua one to get to noise down too.
I will definitely look into the undervolting. I SO rarely push the CPU to its limits (and secretly I "delidded" the entire cube from the outer plastic when I render video to give it an airflow fighting chance)
cool video but you didnt really show us what it all looks like in the case
Really, really well done. Now do an iMac G4 Hackintosh and an extra two iMac G4's converted to DVI/HDMI to make a triple monitor setup.
Done subbed. here before 100 subscribers, and onwards to more content
For future reference: you can just connect the 2 Pins on the motherboard with a Screwdriver to power it on, instead of waiting 2 days for amazon delivery ;)
This is legitimately how I started my PC for a couple of weeks before I got tired of it and built a "front panel" for it.
For context this is a sleeper I'm working on but needed an extra PC for online class, so it doesn't have a case to speak of and not all of the hardware is together yet, so that's why I went with this janky solution.
i sow one at the free market and i almost bought it.i regret it now seen your great video.yes is a very good looking machine good job
Hello, this is your Hackintosh very nice. Have you had graphic problems with the riser tapes? On my Hackintosh, the computer had problems, graphics problems, artifacts and resets. There was no such problem under Windows. What brand of riser tape did you use?
Hey! That sucks that you have been having any graphics problems in your build. Graphics have worked out perfectly for me, no problems at all. I really don't push it though, and probably could have run graphics on the iGPU to save $ and space.
The riser cable I used was this one:
Riser Cable: EZDIY-FAB PCIe3.0 16x Flexible Cable Riser Card (25cm)
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Where did you find that background?
It has seven fans now 🎉🤗
You definitely cooked this poor i9, an i5 or i7 t sku would have done much better thermally
i hope you make more tech videos
I really appreciate this. It certainly motivates me! Secretly I filmed a bunch more videos I just have a LOT to learn about how to edit :)
Great project! btw if you want to test the thermals, you should use Aida 64 on windows
Subbed!
great content dude , and talking on such a case mod hackintosh project bravo . sub from me
The one thumbs down is from Gil Amelio. Great video, great research, great improvisation. Post more.
Ha! Damn you 90's Apple!!! For a new UA-camr I have to pop my thumbs down cherry sometime. Appreciate the support :)
Hello, it's a nice package, there could be some improvement on finish but the performance in this cube is great, that could be cool to put a 144hz Screen on an 30 inch Apple Cinema Display for gaming and other stuff.
Suggestion....!
Please add what exact GPU did you use ? OR at least put the specs in description for such build videos in future. ...All the time I was just thinking about that GPU and it just got irritating.
Thank you for the suggestion. I finally figured out affiliate links and now the GPU (and all the parts) are linked in the description to make them easier to find. Appreciate the feedback and letting me know where I can make an improvement.
hey man so to test thermals you will want to run some benchmarks and keep tabs on what its doing at that time - thermals while not under load dont really mean anything - its when the thing is being stressed that matters. someone mentioned the aida64 stress test on windows before and thatd work. could just try cinebench and run it 4 or 5 times in a row (the first test will give you the best results but the process will heat up cpu, gpu, etc.) and watch thermals with that hardware monitor app you had there at the same time. granted, it might not FULLY load EVERYTHING at once, but it does a damn good job of stressing the system overall. the Tj temp of the 9900K is (I believe) 105Cso as long as youre under that i wouldnt worry at all. and as you mentioned, it will throttle anyways to keep heat down - but with running benchmarsk you can see the relationship between thermals, throttling, and perf lost due to heat.
Hm, didnt know Bruce Campbell was a tech youber
I really live part 2
Waiting for liquid custom loop g4
now that we have single fan rtx 4060 cards you could get that thing up to 1440p performance
Hello sir I’m looking to replace my cube wifi module, since you’ve hacked yours, can you sell me the original wifi module please ? Many thanks, daniel
The issue I see with this is there is zero airflow yes you have an I9 but it is under performing. We both know that computer runs super hot with any type of load other than UA-cam. It’s definitely cool but There’s a reason why Steve Jobs didn’t put a PSU inside
I want to do the same thing to my G4 Cube.
I’m going to do this lol
Yes! Do! It did take a while, but I was figuring most of this stuff out on my own. What would go where. But it's so great when you are done. Good luck and let me know if you run into some concern.
trry to fin an mac mini M1 in there it could be interesting
Perifractic put a raspberry pi in an apple II, sooooooo close enough?
"It has 8 core and its blazingly fast"
3950x would like to talk to you
5950x would like to bust your kneecaps
I would like to talk to a 5950x right about now too... so I can buy it!
this was made before the new processors 🤦♂️
12:37 that’s what she said
Please under any circumstances do not make a reference to the Borg I know you're working on a cube and that's awesome myself I work on really old computers as well and running to kind of the same problems as you but resistance is futile
Why oh why did I ever sell mine?
You're better off with 96 GB of RAM as the 5,1 operates on 3 channels. Edi: ah, i see you covered that.
Not really an extreme upgrade without Thunderbolt 3!
meh, how many people really use it.
@@torariders313 Anyone I know why has done it uses it.
"scuzzy"... oh lord. IDE
True on the cube, but Apple did use SCSI on quite a lot of their machines while PC manufacturers absolutely insisted on foisting cheap shoddy IDE on everyone, which eventually caused Apple to give up on SCSI, unfortunately.
@@dregenius SCSI used to work really well in raid configuration especially with extended writes like massive photoshop files. It was definitely quirky to configure with its 'rule of 7' and the need for a 'terminator' at the end of the SCSI chain or sometimes not as each case sample was different..
Que servicinho de porco meu amigo.
Tiene pinta de Mark Zuckerberg
What in Jobs name have you created? This poor thing only needed a new dvd drive and you butchered it! You at least did it somewhat well.
Run cinebench r23 and use intel power gadget to see the temperature
a simple PC into a mac case
boss
Boring! Didn't even show parts of the build. Just pics and you talking about it.
Me: spends weeks making animations, editing footage, creating vector illustrations to convey the finer points of the mod.
You: This is just pictures.
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But hey, I'm listening. Please, let me know what parts you would like to see more of and maybe I can address them in a future video.
The music stopping & starting is annoying.
George! Oh, man, I always wanted to go to your world famous George Senda's Deli!! I believe it's the one where you order a beautiful artisan honey Boars Head slow cooked turkey and avocado on a French Roll, with chipotle mayo, lettuce tomato and onions, and you just come out from the back and throw cold cut at people.
All jokes aside, I'm new at this and even criticism is an area of improvement. Thanks, I'll take note of it on the next video.
@@CompTie love ur reply lmfao
this is all what not to do
why?
Went here for a real cube...quit after a view seconds. sorry
Awesome! One time I went into a McDonald's and realized I wanted a Double-Double and went to In-N-Out instead. Because McDonald's doesn't have a Double-Double, they have the McDouble.
Basically you destroyed a piece of art & design... good you mentioned it was already broken.
I think 'destroyed' is rather an alarmist word to describe this case mod? I would have used the word 'conserved' myself as basically there is nothing sexy about the antiquidated internals inside this case or Mac classic System 7 - OS9 for that matter.
It is always possible to emulate 'classic' in Sheep Shaver if you fancy a bit of showboating but i don't see the point myself. This guy made a Herculean effort to save this beautiful piece of modern art from that great landfill skip in the sky if you ask me!