I volunteer at a small educational non-profit where I, among other things, restore donated hardware for resale. We recently got a 2006 Mac Pro 1.1 (dual Xeon 5150) that was a server in a local library's back room, so the case at least is in great condition. Because its ancient and can't run any recent Mac OS, I assume its probably not worth much as a functioning Mac (except maybe to collectors?).
I'm not a Mac person myself, but I always thought those aluminum cases were pretty elegant. If it wasn't too much effort, I thought it might be fun to retrofit the case with (more) modern hardware, hopefully saving the drive backplane and some of the other interesting features in the process. I couldn't find anything on the internet though, other than people fitting a slightly newer (but still very obsolete) Mac Pro board. I was thinking newer, non-Apple components though. I have a new Asrock Rack work station board, and a couple new Supermicro X9 (X9DRT-F and X9DRD-if) sitting on a shelf waiting for a project for example.
I'm OK with fabrication, so long as its not too extensive. Has anyone seen anything (or done something themselves) on putting more modern components in these old Mac Pros?
Thanks
I'm not a Mac person myself, but I always thought those aluminum cases were pretty elegant. If it wasn't too much effort, I thought it might be fun to retrofit the case with (more) modern hardware, hopefully saving the drive backplane and some of the other interesting features in the process. I couldn't find anything on the internet though, other than people fitting a slightly newer (but still very obsolete) Mac Pro board. I was thinking newer, non-Apple components though. I have a new Asrock Rack work station board, and a couple new Supermicro X9 (X9DRT-F and X9DRD-if) sitting on a shelf waiting for a project for example.
I'm OK with fabrication, so long as its not too extensive. Has anyone seen anything (or done something themselves) on putting more modern components in these old Mac Pros?
Thanks