Mac Pro Case COMPLETED....for now.

[tom.humphrey]

I decided to start a new topic, as the last one was too cluttered with just ideas, and now I'm actually making the thing, I thought it'd be nice to have a clear log.

Anyway here we go.

Original Case:

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I wanted to be able to use a full ATX board inside this case, with as little appearance changes to the outside as possible.

Customisation:
I first started by removing the whole of the back of the case, and stripping all of the parts out of the case.

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After this was done, I went about creating a customised back plate using a mountain mods motherboard tray and some sheet metal which I found on ebay.

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Back painted - needs a bit of touch up work.

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This is how far i've got currently but have lots more plans for this case.

I'm planning to paint the rear side of the case so the colour matches, I will also be using a corsair H80 to cool the cpu at the rear of the case.

I am still playing around with fan layout to see how many I can fit in (thinking possibly 4 120's + H80)

I am also going to be using a HDD rack to allow me to have 6 HDD inside the case (2x SSD's in raid 0 for boot, and 4 HDD's for storage)

If anyone has got any thoughts please don't hesitate to say. It is still looking a bit of a mess at the moment, but will look a lot better when finalised.

Update 29th April 2012

 

[jose456891]

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Nice, I tried this once with a G5, and I quit after painting it. Lesson learned: I'm no spray-paint artist....bummer.

How are you glueing the back? I hope you are using a conductive material, suck as conductive epoxy.

I have pictures of my case, I'm willing to get rid of them.

 

[tom.humphrey]

Re: Mac Pro Case

I've been using J B weld to do as much as possible, and have another one (forgotten the name of currently) which is very similar.

I've just started spray painting some parts, whilst others dry - just with primer though, am hoping it will turn out ok, but sort of at the wait and see stage at the moment.

I'm not too bad with a spray can so fingers crossed

 

[Gus]

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Looks really good! Will be really hard to notice once youve finished filling/glueing/jb weld-ing(is that a word???) and painted it.

 

[tom.humphrey]

Re: Mac Pro Case

Cheers Gus, I'm fairly pleased with it so far

However am really starting to notice how time consuming these mods are (this is my first)

 

[Gus]

Re: Mac Pro Case

Yup. But the time is worth it for the finished product! I am extremely envious of some people's mods on here. So much fabulous work.

 

[eelhead]

Re: Mac Pro Case


Finally got to building it huh lol.
I await your finished product and looking good so far!

 

[pandelo]

Re: Mac Pro Case

where you bought the TRAY?
You have the link? please

 

[eelhead]

Re: Mac Pro Case

where you bought the TRAY?
You have the link? please

What tray are you talking about?

 

[tom.humphrey]

Re: Mac Pro Case

I bought a mountain mods motherboard tray, which I've adapted to give the mac pro style look.

Cheers eelhead, When are you going to get round to building yours