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I would like to thank everyone's creativity and outstanding knowledge on the subject of these cases and various other bits of electronic wizardry for inspiring me to build not only a hacktintosh as I had originally intended but do it right and put it in a Mac Pro case.
That said, this thread is not intended to be a showoff thread nearly as much as a distress beacon for myself and another thread for some poor schmo like myself to read to encourage and educate.
OK on to the goods:
The build: I will be using the 2600k Customac build however with the matx gigabyte board featured in mooners build for space reasons. I will also be consolidating the small homesever I have with its 3, 2TB drives and solid state for the 4 drive bays as well as a Corsair H80 for cooling.
Day 0: Mac Pro 2008 (sata cable front panel) case came in from ebay. Outstanding, brand new complete and in the plastic without a scratch. Very pleased. I also recieved my SAS to Sata adapter and my apple bluetooth unit.
Day 1:
2nd Batch of parts arrived. Not Pictured 3 2TB Hd's I already own and a Corsair H70 cooler. I will be building the computer into a temp case to get ready while I wait for other parts to come such as soldering iron cable wrap, shrink tubing and etc and inch worm my way through the splicing and preparing of the cables cuz I am a scared little child, who I am sure will be asking a lot of questions.
Day 3 or 4 now.
I forgot to take pictures of me snapping off the stand offs and epoxying in the replacement ones but thats been covered before. So on to the installation of the h60.
The box
The removal of the back grill cover
Grab the trusty Dremel:
Fan sandwiched between grill and radiator:
All Screwed back in:
What it looks like so far:
Latest Update:
With a little more help from mooner I was able to wire the power cables of the SAS array into 2 standard molex connectors.
I used some molex connectors with 3pin fan connectors also on them because where the cables naturally end up is right next to the plastic fan holder which I put 2 120mm Scythe fans in:
fans-
fans installed with dust covers
backside with the 3 pin connectors:
That said, this thread is not intended to be a showoff thread nearly as much as a distress beacon for myself and another thread for some poor schmo like myself to read to encourage and educate.
OK on to the goods:
The build: I will be using the 2600k Customac build however with the matx gigabyte board featured in mooners build for space reasons. I will also be consolidating the small homesever I have with its 3, 2TB drives and solid state for the 4 drive bays as well as a Corsair H80 for cooling.
Day 0: Mac Pro 2008 (sata cable front panel) case came in from ebay. Outstanding, brand new complete and in the plastic without a scratch. Very pleased. I also recieved my SAS to Sata adapter and my apple bluetooth unit.
Day 1:
2nd Batch of parts arrived. Not Pictured 3 2TB Hd's I already own and a Corsair H70 cooler. I will be building the computer into a temp case to get ready while I wait for other parts to come such as soldering iron cable wrap, shrink tubing and etc and inch worm my way through the splicing and preparing of the cables cuz I am a scared little child, who I am sure will be asking a lot of questions.
Day 3 or 4 now.
I forgot to take pictures of me snapping off the stand offs and epoxying in the replacement ones but thats been covered before. So on to the installation of the h60.
The box
The removal of the back grill cover
Grab the trusty Dremel:
Fan sandwiched between grill and radiator:
All Screwed back in:
What it looks like so far:
Latest Update:
With a little more help from mooner I was able to wire the power cables of the SAS array into 2 standard molex connectors.
I used some molex connectors with 3pin fan connectors also on them because where the cables naturally end up is right next to the plastic fan holder which I put 2 120mm Scythe fans in:
fans-
fans installed with dust covers
backside with the 3 pin connectors:
