- Joined
- Dec 22, 2018
- Messages
- 15
- Motherboard
- ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming
- CPU
- i7-8700
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
First off, I'm new at this whole Hackintosh thing. I own a really old Mac Pro 1.1 that I upgraded with new Xeon CPU's and extra memory a couple years ago. in order to make that work with some more recent versions of MacOs I had to use UniBeast to hack the version up to Mac Pro 1.2. Thats as far as I got then and I was happy that i could make that work.
However old things seem to die out so at some point the Mac Pro just became too slow to be useful.
So last week i got the stupid (I now see that) plan to go out and buy some cool hardware for a new computer and I would install that into my old Mac Pro case.
the list:
ASUS-ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming motherboard (ATX size)
ASUS-GEFORCE GTX 1060 STRIX 6G GAMING Videocard ==> not supported in Mojave
GIGABYTE RADION RX580 GAMING 8G GDDR5
INTEL-Core i7 8700 (6core) CPU
CORSAIR-RM650X V2 650W PSU
CORSAIR-16G (2x8) 3000MHz DDR4 Vengance LPX BLACK memory
NOCTUA-NH-D15 cooler (massive huge thing)
SAMSUNG-500GB 970EVO M.2 NVMe SSD storage
Basically I got me a decent set of components to make a really fast computer. And my guess is that it might not run any version of MacOS soon. But that will not stop me from trying.
reading up on the forum about modding the Mac Pro case gave me confidence that it could be done, but while dismantling the case (that took me far longer then i expected) i figured out that most of the cases used where based on the G5 case and not the Mac Pro case. removing the components was hard, but now i think i know how i could do it without damaging the case (inside only) as much as i did on this one.
I'm far from done, but i got to the part where I have installed the components, and i got Ubuntu installed just to see if it boots.
it does, but not much else
The case still closes and the system runs as silently as you can imagine, but i do feel bad about how i kinda messed up the backside a bit.
And I might need some help moving on, but its my first try at this so ... be gentle.
Keep you posted on my progress.
and if you need tips on how to do things in this case.. I sort of know my way around it now.
However old things seem to die out so at some point the Mac Pro just became too slow to be useful.
So last week i got the stupid (I now see that) plan to go out and buy some cool hardware for a new computer and I would install that into my old Mac Pro case.
the list:
ASUS-ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming motherboard (ATX size)
GIGABYTE RADION RX580 GAMING 8G GDDR5
INTEL-Core i7 8700 (6core) CPU
CORSAIR-RM650X V2 650W PSU
CORSAIR-16G (2x8) 3000MHz DDR4 Vengance LPX BLACK memory
NOCTUA-NH-D15 cooler (massive huge thing)
SAMSUNG-500GB 970EVO M.2 NVMe SSD storage
Basically I got me a decent set of components to make a really fast computer. And my guess is that it might not run any version of MacOS soon. But that will not stop me from trying.
reading up on the forum about modding the Mac Pro case gave me confidence that it could be done, but while dismantling the case (that took me far longer then i expected) i figured out that most of the cases used where based on the G5 case and not the Mac Pro case. removing the components was hard, but now i think i know how i could do it without damaging the case (inside only) as much as i did on this one.
I'm far from done, but i got to the part where I have installed the components, and i got Ubuntu installed just to see if it boots.
it does, but not much else
The case still closes and the system runs as silently as you can imagine, but i do feel bad about how i kinda messed up the backside a bit.
And I might need some help moving on, but its my first try at this so ... be gentle.
Keep you posted on my progress.
and if you need tips on how to do things in this case.. I sort of know my way around it now.
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