Which cases are compatible with each other? Mac Pro 5 and 4 or can I also use 1,1 or 3,1 case to put the 5,1 hardware into. They do all look like a similar frame.
Honestly, they all do look so similar, dont forget the Powermac G5 looks similar, but only has the one optical drive bay door. I don't have an answer as to compatibility off-hand, but I encourage you to check it out online! Also holy shit your channel is awesome and I just subbed. I am a HUGE car guy.
I've lovingly upgraded my 5,1 Mac Pro over the past year or so. I upgraded the CPU from a single 2.8 GHz quad-core to two 3.06 GHz six-cores; the GPU from a HD 5770 to an RX 580; the RAM from 6 GB to 96 GB; the storage from a 500 GB mechanical hard-drive to a 1 TB NVMe SSD; and I installed a USB 3/C combo card, a FireWire 400 card and dual Blu Ray drives.
I once upgraded a 2006 1,1 Mac Pro with two quad-core CPUs (up from the original dual-cores). Since I didn't have quite the right tools and yet powered through with what I had, I scraped my knuckles really badly and bled all over the heat-sinks. I cleaned off the blood, of course, but I sometimes joke that this Mac Pro (which my friend Kris now owns) must be haunted now.
Considering this was your first time pulling apart a Mac Pro, you did alright. I have done this transplant a few times, and I have a banged up Mac Pro that I want to shoot, and it has 3 bent handles - can't even get the door off. I also want to shoot how to pack a Mac Pro, and how not to pack a Mac Pro.
you missed the one part I'm trying to find... the little spring loaded doors that cover the CD slot. I removed mine years ago because I was having too many fail to eject errors. Now I'm trying to put those doors back and they don't seem to go in any way I try.
Sir, my compliments on your channel. Towards the end of my ownership of one of these Macpro5,1s, the fans never stopped going at full speed. This is when I first heard the term "thermal paste," because folks discussing this problem described what needed to be done to fix it. But I was moving on to an iMac17,1 anyway, so I sold it without repairing the heat issue. Did you address any such issue with this one?
Thank you so very much! I didn’t repast this one as the owner had only asked me to move the contents from the smashed up case to the fresh one, but I highly recommend when opening up any older machine.
Every macpro and powermac G5 I bought on ebay arrived totally smashed. I had to do a case swap for every of them (4 so far). UPS - Universal Parcel Smasher
I need to replace the entire mechanisms of the optical bay doors on my Mac Pro as couldn''t find anything online. Can you or someone tell me if, in first place, it is possible to do it and if so, where I can find the information? It would be highly appreciated.
Hi there Flocon! I actually went and combed through the original footage of this video to get you an answer. It looks like you can. Both drive bay doors seem to be part of either one large plastic frame, or they are individually held onto that frame. On said frame I noticed there was at least one screw that can be removed leading me to believe you can replace them! If it's anything like the power button, it'll all be one annoying plastic mechanism, but at least it can be done!
@@CanadianComputerCollector Thank you so much for your reply. I definitely will look at it again and very closely and will follow up with my findings if you do not mind, of course. Thanks again!
If this was one of the brittle beige plastic 90s Macintoshes, it would of been so much worse. Aluminum can take a beating, but when will sellers learn how to properly pack? 😭
Hey dude! They still have a ton of value. Since the loadout truly dictates price, I'd look up your specs then check out eBay sold for a similar model. It might give a better idea of value than I could.
Great video. Is it possible to swap the metal and plastic "frame" on the back of the case where the PCIe cards show their ports? The reason I'd like to do so is because there's a factory "sticker" (not really a sticker--more like the plastic part of frame itself) on the bottom of that frame imprinted with the unit's model number, serial number, processor type, etc., and I'd like to keep that "matching" the guts that I'm swapping. The part I'm talking about is about 1/4 down from the top and 1/5 of the way from the left at the 3:20 mark in your video.
It would appear that "No" is the answer to your question. I did a search for used cases, and found that the piece with the serial number always seems to remain attached to totally stripped down cases.
@@CanadianComputerCollector Thank you for the great video! I have a Mac Pro with a damaged case. I'm trying to decide if I would be able to transfer everything into a nice case. I looks complicated and that it would be easy to mess something up.
