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This one cracked me up, ya'll should hire Madison! Would love to see her in more vids!

I am in the US. I got it locally at a place called 3R Technology (in south Seattle). They were doing a sale. The server was normally $699.

Ah, should've picked my head up off the desk and finished reading - missed OP saying kingston followed by "fash drives" there at the end... oi vai does my foot taste bad.

Nope, they were talking thumb(-ish) drives.

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Welcome to the Brand New Update for the Modding FAQ Post
This has been quite the work giving the FAQ a new look from the old text based version and I hope everyone here enjoys it and find it useful. The old version however is not gone, for anyone who still wants to view it with the same up to date info I will leave a link to it HERE.
 
This thread will go over some of the most common mods, contain information on sleeving, painting components, templates, modding, and more with detailed instructions for all the mods.
 

 
If there is anything you want to see added, or contribute let me know by either posting below or messaging me I'm always open to new ideas.
 
 
General Wiring
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Modding
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Painting
 

 

 

 

 

 

I am Looking at redoing my Rig to Hard Line and moving to the Thermaltake Core P5 

Your build makes me want to do mine even more

But Very Nice Looking Build

buy another one from apple with the same spec, and send the broken one back claiming it was 'damaged in transit' (jk)?

I'm an ACMT working for CityMac in Bellingham, WA (right across the border from you). 
We are an AASP, can get the parts you're looking for and would be glad to repair the iMac for you. 
 
I personally have the required certification to repair the iMac Pro.
 
Let us know!
 
Slav P CityMac Bellingham
Apple Certified Macintosh Technician
Apple Premier Partner | Verizon Authorized Reseller
360-380-3999
CityMac.com  

http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/showversion/cs/P-40.1?code=se:39&pointInTime=20180413#20180413
 
Don't you guys have that kind of law in BC ?

Did you but the Mac in Canada, cause you guys have some lovely laws about the legality of selling electronics that the manufacturer cant repair
 
(also if anything like england, there are no spare parts here)

Nice video: My suggestion is to basically bully them: Get MKBHD, Austin, etc. To make noise about them and shame them into doing something. I mean the multiple millions of views this video should get (And I actually do encourage people to like and share the video this time) should be just the first taste but it should be scorched earth on them.

@GabenJr @LinusSebastian well I dont know if that might help in any way. But what about going "to the press" with this to get some force on apple. If it gets published that even apple isnt able to repair their own products maybe that will get some peoples attention?! Make some Shitstorm where you can, I know apple isnt in social media but maybe that will help somehow. Write official complaints about this to their complaints mail, open multiple cases on apple support, write to their press department, whatever. 

Greets
 

Hope you guys get this worked out. This is part of why there isn't a single Apple device in my home.

@GabenJr   @LinusTech I work for Parliament here in the UK (as a researcher for a Member), and I believe we have some relations with the exec team/public affairs team at Apple. Could write to them using my position in Parliament to see what they can do. It usually works. 
 
I am happy to provide proof I work for em (have my official email and other bits of ID) - if a mod or yourselves want to check this. 

Take the internals out, make a new enclosure for them, and mount them to the back of a regular monitor.

My main rig. Feel free to suggest a name for it.
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080 SeaHawk EK X
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270F
OS Drive: Corsair MP500 240GB NVMe SSD
Mass Storage Drive: WD Black 1TB HDD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860
Case: Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
Cooling: EK Stuff

My main rig. Feel free to suggest a name for it.
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080 SeaHawk EK X
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270F
OS Drive: Corsair MP500 240GB NVMe SSD
Mass Storage Drive: WD Black 1TB HDD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860
Case: Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
Cooling: EK Stuff

My main rig. Feel free to suggest a name for it.
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080 SeaHawk EK X
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270F
OS Drive: Corsair MP500 240GB NVMe SSD
Mass Storage Drive: WD Black 1TB HDD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860
Case: Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
Cooling: EK Stuff

My main rig. Feel free to suggest a name for it.
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080 SeaHawk EK X
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270F
OS Drive: Corsair MP500 240GB NVMe SSD
Mass Storage Drive: WD Black 1TB HDD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860
Case: Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
Cooling: EK Stuff

My main rig. Feel free to suggest a name for it.
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700K
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ RGB 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB)
GPU: MSI Geforce GTX 1080 SeaHawk EK X
Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270F
OS Drive: Corsair MP500 240GB NVMe SSD
Mass Storage Drive: WD Black 1TB HDD
Power Supply: Corsair AX860
Case: Thermaltake Core P3 Snow Edition
Cooling: EK Stuff

1. Cant return 2. Its ez to solder 

oh you kiddos have it easy
back in my day we took the xmas tree lights and hooked those to our 3 way speakers
flash to that channels music note
if you had subwoofers and time you would splice sub to yellow lights, low of 3 way to red, mid to green, high to blue(our xmas lights were only 4 colors)
then play favorite tunes and watch the light show

ah ok so its not about building a smart home but Controlling existing stuff.
 
Then a Raspberry pi might be your only choice beside directly using the phone or an old tablet that you mount on the wall.

Plenty of Pi clusters have been done. They don't offer any significant computing power it's basically just for fun and to learn cluster stuff without the need to rob a bank and own a nuclear reactor to power everything.
 
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/los_alamos_lab_creates_750_node_rpi_cluster/
 

It was for reference..
 
You have the important part and should be able to find a like one on the board you can use as a baseline to guess what it is. Also, with the old stuff you can be off a bit if you are in the correct range and things will work just fine with no ill effect. You can also "tune" older stuff that use such parts with different variables by replacing or upgrading some components. Different values.. In some cases you can bypass a resistor and the component will work as they are used to tune the flow and usually in very small ways.
 
You should be able to guess the correct one based on the other ones used on the board like I said though...