Hey,
I have an old Power Mac g5 gathering dust at home, and I was asking myself:
“What can I do with this old man ?”
I first thought of just taking the case, but it’s not optimal to build a PC :P
It is also too much power consuming to make it a sever.
Do you have any idea ?
Thanks !

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Lots of people, including myself, case-mod them to fit standard or extended ATX boards. The workstation style flow-through cooling can be really good.

There are guides online, but it’s easy to figure out. The cases are worth money to people who want to do this.

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I have for project to build a gaming pc, but I think I won’t use it for this (for now, I’ll see when I’ll be more experienced)

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Grate some cheese?

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It is sexy furniture, but one thing you could do is load it up with software from its time and just retro compute for fun. I’ve seen people do that to play old windows 95 games and stuff.

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I’m on a 90s dos/windows gaming group on Facebook and people there love showing off their old builds full of era appropriate games. And for those with the passion but lacking the hardware, there exodos.

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Put the cheapest, crappiest Windows PC in it and post it on some Mac forums.

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Lol, or use it to house a dozen nucs

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Heat a room.

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This. Anyone telling you PCs could do more than that is fooling you.

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