Planning on Build in Apple Pro Case

[Yemi]

Hello Peeps,

I was working out a idea which I had and was looking forwards to hear your opinions and thoughts about it. Positive and negative(placed in a positive manner) will help.

Why Do it want it? I will always want to keep busy on projects like this in my spare time. It will be a challenge yes I know but wont it be worth it.

Why this case? Simple, it looks nice and clean. Yes it need some modding but almost any case need some when you wanted exactly as you want to. Planning to put Windows 7 or 8 on it.

Goal: To have it as clean and tidy, almost if as Apple designed it them self.

Vision:
Red: PSU, Keep shield depending on the temperature
Bright Yellow: Reservoir and Pump, Want to keep it hidden.
Dark Green: Connections IN/OUT Reservoir(might swap this around)
White: Radiator, 240 or 360 depends on size.
Dark Yellow and Blue: Will be a smaller format than ATX, with water-cooled CPU and GPU.
Bright Green: Loop itself.

Extra information:
-Dont need/want optical drive
-Will will 2 HDD'S in the 2 far right HDD's Bays
-2 SSD between Rad and MOBO
-Will have Mobo on a separate tray to still be able to hide cables behind it.
-Colour, Think of keeping it as Gray as possible.
-For functionality will Maybe Make a whole on top of the case and connect it with the res for easy filling.
-Will make drain on the bottom of the case between Rad and Mobo for easy draining.

Thanks in advance,
Yemi

 

[rossi94]

Idea is cool

 

[SuB]

I've seen one really nice mac case conversion before, so I'll be following this one closely. Do you already have the case?
Do know they change, even if very slightly, with almost every revision of the Mac Pro?

I don't think you have enough space beneath the drive areas for a 360, you might be better going for 280 instead of 240, give you some extra cooling for the same amount of area(ish)

Since Mac Pros now use a motherboard and then a daughterboard for the cpu and ram tray i'm not entirely sure what size board you can fit, but with it being BTX your cooler should have plenty of room down there

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with this mate.. good luck

P.S. I have a mac pro if you need some measurements (that are east to get at)

 

[rossi94]

They case will be hard to get. GL

 

[Yemi]

This will be a project for the long run though,

-Finding the correct Case will be hard. Got some connections from local store's which I am looking at atm. For Size is a atx to long to fit under the PSU tray which I want to leave intact.

-Rad: I also thing 360 is just to big, But yeay since I will almost have the whole front a wider rad will be better. Even though the bigger the better.
As the Rad is come up, Would 1 good quality rad and fans we enough for CPU and GPU? Or would you prefer 2. I do not think I will be going to SLI it for now.

Yemi,

 

[CPMFW]

one 360x60mm rad should work otherwise two 240´s

 

[rossi94]

Get the case first, then check out where you can fit rads and how to mount them.

 

[CPMFW]

Get the case first, then check out where you can fit rads and how to mount them.

very true