Moving a Mac Pro to a LianLi case

dan_aka_jack said:
I guess I'll be coughing up £1Bn for a moderately-specced Mac Pro + FCP even though I have more then enough processing power sitting under my desk right now. Oh well.
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I don't quite get how this solves your original problem. You wanted a Mac Pro inside a PC case so you could have more hard drives? Correct?

You would have had to buy a Mac Pro and Final Cut anyway? At least now you'll have two machines instead of one bastardised freak of a PC and a disemboweled Mac Pro husk. :)
 
theheyes said:
I don't quite get how this solves your original problem. You wanted a Mac Pro inside a PC case so you could have more hard drives? Correct?

You would have had to buy a Mac Pro and Final Cut anyway? At least now you'll have two machines instead of one bastardised freak of a PC and a disemboweled Mac Pro husk. :)
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. My only choice is to go out and buy a Mac Pro + FCP + an external HDD array.

I suppose, in my ideal world, I would like to be able to go out and buy an OS X DVD and a Final Cut DVD and tripple-boot my system with WinXP, Linux and Mac OSX. I've invested a lot of money in my PC (quad-core Xeon, 4GB RAM, 2TB RAID10 array, Corsair 750W TX PSU, LianLi case etc etc) so it really stings that I have to go out and buy a very similar box to run Mac OSX on. But, of course, I understand that Apple will never sell OSX on its own because Apple make a lot of profit from their hardware sales and also because Apple's philosophy is "keep the hardware choices very simple to reduce the probability of incompatabilities".

I think I will always have both a Windows box and a Mac box for the foreseeable future and I'll use the most appropriate tool for the job in hand.

Thanks,
Jack
 
Join the club mate, I'd love a platform free OSX install disc. Could you not make some money back by selling the PC and moving to a dual-boot Mac Pro?
 
Caged said:
Why do you have to use Final Cut?
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Because I can't keep using Premiere Pro. I've been using PPro for years and there are loads of things I love about it. But it's riddled with bugs. On large projects, it becomes so unstable it's almost unusable. It's putting my professional credibility in jeopardy and that's simply not acceptable. And, also, FCP is used by lots of other London post-production houses so it'll allow me to work with other editors. And I love the look of Color.

More discussion on why I'm fed up with PPro here:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/879792

Could you not make some money back by selling the PC and moving to a dual-boot Mac Pro?
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Yeah, that's a good idea. It'll hurt though. I kinda like my PC and I must have put about 100 hours into building it and getting it just the way I like it. Ho hum.
 
I don't see what part of that would be difficult.

The pci slots seem to be the standard distance apart so will fit in your case.

the screws that i can see on the motherboard look like they're in similar positions to atx but then a drill can sort this (for the case, not the motherboard).

power supply is easy. hard drives and cd drives no problems.

find some way to support those massive cpu heatsinks and that's probably the hardest part over !

I don't see what's so hard. Someone said that the designers had no intention of things being taken out, that doesn't really matter. it's still all held together like a normal pc except they spent some more time covering things up a bit for air flow and have some odd stuff like the ram rise cards. it's just a few screws holding it all together.

If anyone's modded a case (by mod i mean make an extra hole for a fan), that's more than enough skill to do this.

and once you're done, youv'e got an empty apple case which every computer fan would love to buy off you for more than it's worth just so they can put a pc in an apple case.

DO IT!
 
EVH said:
This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard of.
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I have to agree.

12 lots of HDs?

Get 8 1TB disks with a matched style external eSATA enclosure and relevant eSATA card.

8x3.2Ghz C2Q + 8GB + 4x1Gb RAID 5 *drool*

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rudeboymcc said:
I don't see what part of that would be difficult.

The pci slots seem to be the standard distance apart so will fit in your case.

the screws that i can see on the motherboard look like they're in similar positions to atx but then a drill can sort this (for the case, not the motherboard).

power supply is easy. hard drives and cd drives no problems.

find some way to support those massive cpu heatsinks and that's probably the hardest part over !

I don't see what's so hard. Someone said that the designers had no intention of things being taken out, that doesn't really matter. it's still all held together like a normal pc except they spent some more time covering things up a bit for air flow and have some odd stuff like the ram rise cards. it's just a few screws holding it all together.

If anyone's modded a case (by mod i mean make an extra hole for a fan), that's more than enough skill to do this.

and once you're done, youv'e got an empty apple case which every computer fan would love to buy off you for more than it's worth just so they can put a pc in an apple case.

DO IT!
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Apple spend a lot of money I'd imagine designing it for the best airflow.

Memory riser cards secure into the case...

Its really NOT WORTH IT!

And yes I've relatively spent a lot on PC hardware. Still wouldn't butcher a new MP to fit my 3.6Ghz C2Q :/
 
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mattyrigby00 said:
the mac pro motherboard is a propietary design, so it will be impossible for many reasons.
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:confused: Impossible... hardly, pointless... very.

I was in a similar position when i first bought my Macpro and at the time it annoyed me, but, after using the Mac for a week or two i noticed i hadnt switched my PC on...

Find a sexy looking external storage solution, Iomega do some very Macpro style enclosures there 1.5tb Ultramax Pro Firewire 800 case is a thing of beauty, 2 of those sat next to your Macpro will look very nice indeed. An eSata card and enclosures might be better though, not personally looked into the differnace between fw800 and esata, but the Ultramax pro comes in both flavours.
 
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