Well I figured out a better solution.
The Mac is still very usable. Only thing that doesn't work is the Sata power from the motherboard.
I already have an open box windows 7 system. 8gb ram, quad 3.0, 950gtx, 4tb of HD space.
I disassembled the Mac; motherboard, PS, video card, Harness, etc all came out of the case, and placed the components beside my open box PC. The mac Pro still has 2 sata ports on the motherboard so I just crossed 2 sata power connectors from my PC build to power 2 hard drives in raid 0 for the mac.
The 4tb PC is going to be a 'server'/'data' center that will be on 24/7. So I now have an open box mac running in raid 0 with 16gb of ram. I can easily swap parts out of either the mac or the pc anytime I wish.
heres a pic
View image: 1456710 10152893433281255 33593902637494195 n
I cleaned it up quite a bit a few hours ago so it looks much more organized than that. That was just a test run.
The Mac is still very usable. Only thing that doesn't work is the Sata power from the motherboard.
I already have an open box windows 7 system. 8gb ram, quad 3.0, 950gtx, 4tb of HD space.
I disassembled the Mac; motherboard, PS, video card, Harness, etc all came out of the case, and placed the components beside my open box PC. The mac Pro still has 2 sata ports on the motherboard so I just crossed 2 sata power connectors from my PC build to power 2 hard drives in raid 0 for the mac.
The 4tb PC is going to be a 'server'/'data' center that will be on 24/7. So I now have an open box mac running in raid 0 with 16gb of ram. I can easily swap parts out of either the mac or the pc anytime I wish.
heres a pic
View image: 1456710 10152893433281255 33593902637494195 n
I cleaned it up quite a bit a few hours ago so it looks much more organized than that. That was just a test run.
