The question, I suppose, is whether or not it's worth building two cases at all. There's no reason that the 9500+ boards have to have something as big as the daystar millennium/genesis, since very few (if any, TBH) of us are going to be re-casing those machines in particular, so we can build it with Apple's own 601/604-e-ev singles and duallies in mind. Replacement power supply is also intriguing, especially for anyone who looks at a such a replacement case and goes "yeah, I want three Seagate Elite 23s in there!". My thought was basically, bigger 8600/9600 sized case, or full ATX sized case into which you could mount any of those motherboards, and the smaller boards would leave a bit of space at the bottom, which you could do things like "extra drive trays" (which the 8600 case does, for exaple.) (There's a few small/mid-sized cabinets I think would make extremely fun replacement PowerMac enclosures, especially with an eye toward power supply modernization and running a big pile of hard disks.) You could do that by placing the motherboard horizontally, or you could build or transfer something from an existing system.
(I've got a friend with a PowerTower Pro re-housed into an NZXT case, for example.)įailing that, you could dump the bits in a plastic bin or do a little bit of IKEA hacking ( for example), or mount it all on a board like an art project The main concern would be getting card bracket support, especially for the processor cards. Though, I've also seen that the 9500 is closer to ATX than a lot of the other Macs, so it might not be necessary if, as with clone boards, you can just cram into whatever's convenient to buy at the moment. Heck, if you made it oversized, you could do like the 8600 and put a 3-slot board in a case obviously meant for six slots, to be able to put 95 boards in it. Click to expand.That if this happened, it would or could hypothetically have utility for a lot more than just the 8-series macs.
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