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Post by HackJoe on May 7, 2010 20:43:16 GMT
Cheers, well... I'm getting these made partially in house (where I work), not sure yet what the cost to me will be. Turns out the holes are to far apart (compared to the Mac Pro case) so I'll be getting another drawing on Tuesday. The top (grill) is a 5mm Alu machined piece with the four screw holes counter-sunk. It has a 1mm lip so the surround (four sides made from a single sheet of 1mm Alu will fit over the fan itself) fits flush, the centre of the fan (imagine the area the blades turn in) is machined down to 2mm to allow a 3mm gap between the fan and the grill. The surround will be fabricated at the same place my rear IO panel is being made. then the whole lot will be sprayed to match the MacPro finish, I'm not sure if Mac Pros are sprayed or Anodised (any idea?). Once I have one they will bang out another five. Do you want the whole thing or a grill? How many do you want? I'm not sure (yet) if It'll be possible as they are doing me a favour (I showed them the MNPCTECH site and they said "why send it there, we have those machines.."). I'll sure ask. J. |
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Post by HackJoe on May 20, 2010 18:13:09 GMT
The dust is annoying but these are just quick shots, I'm unsure how I feel about posting images, the iPhone is NO DSLR! and really makes these mods look amateurish. I'm knee deep in PSU cables as my braiding the ATX cable at the moment.  ...  ...  ... I need some black bolt caps for those M3 35mm bolts.  ... Also had the blue LEDs changed for White ones on my Sunbeamtech Rheobus Extreme fan controller. check out my avatar you'll see the original blue. I've changed the direction so rather then pointing down and out the case, they point up into the case lighting up the front of the fan bracket. J. |
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Post by aquamac on May 21, 2010 4:39:29 GMT
Looking gorgeous Joe, don't worry about the quality of the pics, I think we can all see how good this is going to look. Black cap heads would be nice here!
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Post by blackknight on May 22, 2010 23:14:59 GMT
Hey Joe, I'm really liking the single rad in the fan shroud. It looks like it will overcome the problem I had with the dual rad blocking too much air for the HDDs since you still have an open fan at the top. Nice work. I'm still a bit curious as to how you will be routing your tubing and mounting the larger radiator.
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Post by HackJoe on May 23, 2010 22:19:19 GMT
The larger RAD is still going on top, but in a effort to make is look less erm... there... The Rad has seen a paint job and the six push and pull 120mm fans are having custom grill shrouds made. The hope is it'll bring it more in line with the design of the Mac Pro and more in following of my own ideas of how I'd like it to look. As for the front fan bracket above, I decided to split my loop in two. The North Bridge and PWM's are being cooled by that single Koolance Rad and the CPU & GPU are being cooled but the beast on top.
J.
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Post by blackknight on May 25, 2010 1:13:08 GMT
Does that mean two pumps? Can you do a mock-up of how it will be mounted? It's looking great so far!
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Post by HackJoe on May 25, 2010 17:30:37 GMT
Yup, two pumps, two loops! hehehehe, I'm using the same XSPC res as before for the main loop and a new XSPC micro res/pump for the second loop, the micro res (lol not that micro) sits next to the main Pump/res.
I'll be building really soon, Ordering my 43 Bitspower fittings this week. once I have them the case will be assembled.
J.
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Post by drmodean on Jun 8, 2010 20:19:46 GMT
Hey everyone! I found this forum from Google and am really excited to build a Hack Pro. This is really my first build and I know it's not easy but I really like challenges.
I'm moving along well but I don't quite understand how the front power switch, USB ports, headphone jack and firewire ports connect to the motherboard. I have a GIGABYTE P55A-UD4P mobo and I've seen the images showing the connectors but I guess I just need to see what I'm supposed to end up with. My biggest head scratcher is what parts I need to adapt the Apple connector to the motherboard and where to get them since there isn't a good misc. computer parts store in Provo, UT other than say, Radio Shack.
If anyone could post some close-up images of the connectors to the mobo or even a video, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Post by blackknight on Jun 8, 2010 23:01:54 GMT
You should really read this thread from the beginning. Pretty much all of your questions are already answered.
Oh, and welcome!!! Good luck on your build.
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Post by drmodean on Jun 11, 2010 17:18:18 GMT
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Post by aquamac on Jun 11, 2010 19:23:30 GMT
I don't think it will work out of the box I am afraid. There are a couple of diagrams on the forums here showing the connections. I have found that connecting to both 12v & 3v is the way to go (thanks Blackknight)! The Mac 120mm fans are a bit to meaty for motherboard headers anyway if you fancy keeping your board in tact.
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Post by guntermonkey on Jun 13, 2010 9:08:40 GMT
Hi,
I got inspired to build my own hack pro after reading this thread. At this point, I pretty much bought all the parts that I need to start working on this project. The only things that I don't have are the cables that needed to connect between the MB and the 8-pins connector on the Mac Pro front panel to get the power button working. However, I do have a bunch of jumper wires that fit perfectly to each individual pin on the connector and on the MB. Can I just use these jumper wires for all the connections on the front panel or doing so is going to cause damage? Any help/suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Post by HackJoe on Jun 14, 2010 12:18:36 GMT
What state did you buy your MacPro case in? They tend to come with some of the cables installed. Mine had no PSU but still included the HDD bay connectors the Front panel connection cable and some AirPort anntena cables. You need to mod the Apple front Panel cable but splicing it to the ATX cable from your own PSU this will allow the machine to turn on when the button is pressed. You also need a SATA-Internal USB header to get the front USB working. if you want the Firewire then a PCI FW card with an internal port is needed. I never wired up my audio cable as I use a AV amp for my sound.
All the diagrams are on the past pages, 39 HackPro pages of goodness. Remember to post lots of photos. Welcome to the Aqua-Mac forums. Home of the best Mac Pro mods on the net.
J.
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Post by guntermonkey on Jun 15, 2010 8:07:10 GMT
The case actually came with a lot of stuff including the ram and front fans cages. I've already made the SATA-USB cable. I was looking at the diagram for the front panel connector and it seemed like that you could only connect a single cable to the power+ for the power button, so I thought a jumper wire should work just fine.
My plan is to build this mod with minimum cutting. It took a long time to get all the parts I needed for this project and they're all finally here. I'll be taking lots of pics along the way. Hope I don't run into too much trouble.
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Post by blackknight on Jun 18, 2010 1:37:20 GMT
I don't think it will work out of the box I am afraid. There are a couple of diagrams on the forums here showing the connections. I have found that connecting to both 12v & 3v is the way to go (thanks Blackknight)! The Mac 120mm fans are a bit to meaty for motherboard headers anyway if you fancy keeping your board in tact. Aqua is absolutely right about the Mac fans being too much for motherboards and really... too much for hack pros. I highly suggest three Scythe ULTRA KAZE 120x38mm 1000 RPM (or 2000 if you plan on connecting them to the motherboard for speed control and want the extra speed) fans to replace the Mac Pro fans since they are fairly cheap (about $14 USD each), very quiet (assuming 1200 RPM and below), each consume .25A as opposed to .75A each of the Apple fans yet move lots of air. I am personally using them on my new XSPC 120x3 radiator at 1000 RPM, but they speed up to about 1500 RPM when the heat increases. All three are connected to the CPU fan header on the motherboard and work great. |
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