JulioDM

My freshly built Hackintosh uses MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC MOBO, i9-9900K Mackintosh OC'd to 5ghz. 32Gb 4000 ram. Be Quiet Dark Base 700 case. 750 Gold Power supply. 4 Port usb pcie card. 1tb NVME SSD Mac OS Drive. 2 Tb Windows 10 drive. Multiple extra hard drives for various storage needs. Thermaltake RGB Water 3.0 360mm rad liquid AIO. It all works beautifully.

I just installed this AIO into a new Dual Boot Hackintosh build. i9-9900K cpu OC to 5.0 ghz. MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Pro Carbon AC mobo. 32g of 4000mhz Corsair Vengeance ram 16x2. BeQuiet Dark Base 700 case in white. 750w gold certified Rosewill Capstone PSU. It's great! This AIO works wonderfully to cool the hot CPU. However, I would like to control the color of the AIO fan's RGB via the mobo. The controller has an extra port in the front. But nowhere on the instructions does it say what it's for. Nor was a second cable provided to fit into that port. I've looked online and the Thermaltake website and I cannot seem to find out if this is even doable. If the controller I have cannot be connected to the motherboard for RGB control, is there another Thermaltake controller that will work with this AIO but also provide mobo sync control for the RGB fan lights? Any information would be highly appreciated!!!! Thank you ahead of time. -Julio

So my boss was super lucky and got his Rift early. He was nice enough to let me use it this weekend past. I have an old Mac Pro 2010 (5,1) that I made many changes to in order to see if it was possible to run the Oculus Rift. The answer is YES!. My original mac had 12-cores running 2x6-core CPUs at 2.66 ghz a piece. I upgraded those to 2x6-core CPUs running at 3.46 ghz. I upgraded my ram to 32gb. I added a USB 3.0 PCIe card. I added a GTX 980 ti video card. I swapped out all four hard drives for 1tb SSDs. Im running Windows 10 in bootcamp on a dedicated SSD. The Rift ran perfectly. No hiccups, no odd issues installing anything. I expected problems because Apple cripples the PCIe slot to run in Rev 1.1 if you install a newer generation Nvidia card. The only way to fix it is to either write your own EFI driver for the card, or buy a card from Macvidcards.com or send them your brand new video card to them so that they solder a larger EPROM chip to the card (which voids your warranty btw... ) and then flash it with their own custom proprietary EFI driver for the card so that the freaking mac will read it and run it at the proper PCIe Rev 2.0 ( my mac pro's max pcie speed ). Considering all that, it still ran amazing! I was very sad to have to give the Rift back. But for anyone wondering, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt. It works!!!!!!!!

Hello Linus. I had posted this thread initially on the Exotic Coolers thread but it was suggested to me by fellow readers that this maybe better off here, since it is you specifically that I would like to address, and this is about suggestions. I hope you don't mind a repost... -------------------------------------------------------------- Hey Linus! I would like to propose a challenge. Can you get your hands on, and then do a complete water cooled solution to a Mac Pro 2010 - 2012 tower with 2 CPUs and an Nvidia GTX 980 ti card inside? It promises to be a very difficult and excruciating process! But it's one that myself and other Mac enthusiasts who refuse to go the trashcan route would love to see!!!!! Thanks in advance regardless if you take the challenge! -------------------------------------------------------------- Now I totally understand that this request is pretty insane. Almost ludicrous... probably worthy of medical attention.... but isn't that worth all the fuss and effort just by it's very nature? As a mac user, we ( those of us who do serious work on our macs and do need upgradability ) have been pretty much left behind by our "Apple lords" and I personally refuse to go the trashcan route when my Mac Pro ( 2010) 12-core is a beast to behold. Dual 3.46 ghz 6-core Xeons. 32 Gb ram, all four drives with SSDs, soon to be added PCIe M.2 hard drive. GTX 980 ti video card. Adding a second GT 610 for boot options .... any who. You can't do that with a trashcan mac. I would just love to see a great way to cool my computer that won't destroy it and helps it run cooler and nice. I know your not a Mac guy, but I hope you can understand the unhappy place Mac users like myself find our selves in. Not to mention the no PCIe 2.0 support for Nvidia video cards under MBR Bootcamp.... don't get me started on that. Anyway, keep up the great vids. Much appreciated, Julio.

I'll have to look and try and find it. Thanks.

So how do I get Linus to pay attention to it? Any advice?

I still use my mac pro for work so I'm too scared of doing something wrong and messing it up. When I purchased it in 2010, I paid 6K for it. It's not something I'm willing to mess up, even though it's considered super old today. Im just too much of a wimp to try it without a damn good chance of success.

Yeah I've seen that. Thanks for the vid though. That's not the Mac Pro I'm talking about. Sadly that's the only time someone tried.

Hey Linus! I would like to propose a challenge. Can you get your hands on, and then do a complete water cooled solution to a Mac Pro 2010 - 2012 tower with 2 CPUs and an Nvidia GTX 970 card inside? It promises to be a very difficult and excruciating process! But it's one that myself and other Mac enthusiasts who refuse to go the trashcan route would love to see!!!!! Thanks in advance regardless if you take the challenge! Julio.

Just upgraded to GTX 980 ti on my Mac Pro tower from 2010, with upgraded Xeon 3.46 ghz(x2) 12-core. 32Gb ram, SSD hard drives. Im trying to get the most of my 6 year old mac.

Here is my Steam VR. I think Im probably a weird one since Im a Mac Person.