



I was able to use all 4 HD Bays, something others have not been able to do with a full ATX board, by experimenting with various cable configurations.I don't have any recommendations on which board to get, look around in the forums (note that the motherboard standoffs will be different in this case). My recommendation is to get a MicroATX board to avoid doing this.
#EARLY 2008 MAC PRO MOTHERBOARD RESET MOD#
My mod involved cutting out a part of the bottom of the case to accommodate about 8mm of the motherboard (you cannot get away without cutting it out if you want a full ATX board. Since it took me about 40 hours just to do the metalwork for this, I would have used a MicroATX motherboard had I know the amount of work it required.
#EARLY 2008 MAC PRO MOTHERBOARD RESET FULL SIZE#
I will post updates as I can find the time.įirst let me say that I purchased the case without knowing that the Mac Pro case cannot accommodate a full size ATX Motherboard. I wrote this guide originally in June of 2011, so many of the links may be uotdated. My build was made in a way that it would be very easy to change out the parts for future upgrades. The modifications require a good amount of skill working with aluminum, soldering, and general modding. The information posted here has been gathered from numerous forums around the Internet as well as my own findings. The purpose of this project was to build a cheap hackintosh using a Mac Pro case keeping it in tact as much as possible. I wanted to share my experiences with this project, as I have wanted to do it for years but never found all of the answers in the right place, here I am sharing them with you for your own benefit. HOW TO: The Perfect Hack Pro (Mac Pro) build using an original Mac Pro case & parts:
