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by andz 3131 days ago
Loved my G5. A huge beast of a machine but a lovely design nonetheless. Would be great to revisit the beautiful case and build something more modern in it sometime.
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I am still happily using a stock(ish) Xeon-based 'cheesegrater' tower at home, but if you wanted to just reuse an old (PPC or Intel) Mac Pro case to build a new system in, there are some ATX adapter kits available[1].

1: https://www.thelaserhive.com/product/mac-pro-atx-kit-with-ps...

I had one of the Xeon Mac Pros and got way more use out of it than I expected after putting in an SSD. It felt like a brand new computer.

It was an "Early 2008" model and I finally replaced it in 2015.