blau1431

Here's the link to my Mac Pro 2.1 Mod if you want to take a look at it. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1063758-apple-macpro-21-case-mod/?tab=comments#comment-12565832

Even though the standoffs are made from aluminum they can be easily removed with some pliers. I did that with my old Mac Pro 2.1. Then I screwed them into the motherboard and used two component glue to hold them in place afterwards. The motherboard can be removed easily after the glue has cured.

reseating the CPU? Sound's dumb but hey, at least you could try it

May I present you an almost perfect Cube.. Now I just have to drill some holes in it and insert the middle plate then I'm almost good to go!

1. measure thrice! Can't say that enough, once you did a cut it stays like this forever 2. there aren't any real risks at all, biggest risk would be you did a wrong cut, can't install fans and then have a hole in the front of your PC ^^ 3. not a veteran myself, so nothing from my side# 4. depending on how good it should look/what tools you already have at hand. when you just want better airflow then it shoud be pretty cheap, some mesh, like 16 bolts and nuts and thats about it..

I tried it with some tin snips, cutting was okay but it got warped in the process so I couldn't use the rest of it. I don't own an angle grinder just a dremel but I can't imagine that this would work.

This is the layout as I mentioned before. Also tried cutting the steel today but that didn't really work out, probably will need ab better cutting tool, any suggestions?

So I got a used Kallax 4x4 shelf for free and wanted to incorporate it into my living room setup.. Only problem was.. my case is normal ATX and stands in a place where it later couldn't stand anymore because the Kallax is supposed to go there.. So the only logical thing anyone can think of is of course to search for an ATX case that would fit inside a Kallax. Measurements are 33x33x39 ATX is 30.5x24.4 So there should be a fitting case, right? Wrong! Now I have to build one myself because I'm to stubborn to relocate my PC down on the floor or high up on the Kallax (1.5m high). For cooling I thought about 2 front intakes, one top intake and one rear exhaust. Case is supposed to be 32cm wide, 29cm high (without feet), and about 37cm deep. Front, back and side panels will be made from 0.8mm Aluminum (should be thick enough) while the bottom, middle and top panel will be made from 0.75mm steel. In the bottom compartment goes the PSU and the SSD's. (Don't know if I'll need extra ventilation for this space) Then on top of the PSU goes the middle plate on which I will mount the mainboard and everything else. I'd be glad for any additional input you guys might have. Will show sketches and progress in the next few posts. (Already got the Aluminum cut to size) MfG blau

yeah those pics aren't really good, I had to close the curtains because otherwise the pics would have been even worse

4. FINISHING as mentioned before I had to cut out the old IO shield and the metal pieces between the pcie slots, also had to cut a new hole for the PSU cable the SSD's are now mounted to the old HDD cages using some simple inateck 2.5" to 3.5" adapter plates the GPU is secured in place with a standard screw and nut (not elegant but it works) last part will be trying to place the old RAM cage over the CPU Cooler (but that won't happen so soon as I won't have time to work on it) in theory it should fit, but i will have to cut out some pieces of it (also I want to insert another fan into it - as you can see there are mounting points for one, atm the case has no exaust fan, so that will be necessary) Now thats that. I don't have much more to show. If anyone of you has a question feel free to ask. I'll try and answer them.

DISCLAIMER!! English is not my native language, I appologise for any mistakes I make! Before I start showing yo guys what I did to the case of the old MacPro I had lying around collecting dust, let me tell you why I did it. I bought a new fan for my PC and while taking of the glass sidepanel I dropped it.. so yeah.. good job.. First I thought about buying a new one but those are quiet expensive and the case wasn't that good for cablemanagement or airflow. That's why I decided to rip appart the old MacPro (it wasn't in working condition anymore, so no problem there) Now that you know how this project began, lets get started with showing off what and how I did it. 1. THE PARTS MB - ASRock B350 Pro4 CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 1600x GPU - Asus ROG Strix RX Vega 64 RAM - 2x8GB Crucial Ballistix 2666mHz PSU - CoolerMaster V850 (80+ Gold, modular) CPU-Cooler - bequiet! Shadow Rock LP Fans - 1x Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B12-P 1x Noiseblocker NB-eLoop B12-1 1x Noiseblocker NB-Multiframe M12-1 2. CLEANED OUT MACPRO taking out the mainboard and fans wasn't too complicated the mainboard-standoffs snapped right out I had to flatten some of the mounting points for the SATA cables so the MB would fit inside (I just used a hammer) getting the components of the PSU out of its cage was quite interesting (almost shit my pants.. cause.. well its something you clearly aren't supposed to do) 3. TESTFITTING THE COMPONENTS I then used a Dremel to cut out some parts of the PSU enclosure to fit the CoolerMaster inside (with an SFX-PSU you wouldn't have to cut so much) and threaded the wires trough the routing hole (had to extend the EPS cable because it was too short) I also had to cut out the divider between PSU and 5.25" bay (again something that wouldn't have been necessary with an SFX-PSU) the PSU is mounted inside the old enclosure by shear force (it's really a tight fit) The old MB standoffs where screwed into my ATX MB and then glued to the inside of the case using 2 component glue (the MB was slightly curved so the top right corner wouldn't stay in place, thats why i had to put something heavy on it) here you can see the new MB standoffs after I the glue hardened (took about 2h before the MB was safe to remove) I then screwed 2 of the Noiseblocker fans into the old fan holder an put it back in place alongside the graphicscard and ssds for a testdrive (the GPU doesn't sit properly so I had to remove the metal pieces between the slots, also the MB IO is not accessible atm)

Now I somehow got my system running while the 1080Ti was installed, I used the 960 to get some pictures of the device manager, sorry it's in german but I was so happy that I quickly took the pictures without thinking about it. I'll also make a second post with more pics of device manager and some from gpuz. reinstalling the drivers via device manager didn't help at all.

so luckily my co-worker had an old GTX960 laying around and he borrowed it to me. I pluged the 1080Ti and the 960 in at the same time and windows seemed to start normally (HDMI in 960). then I went into the device manager, both cards were detected although the 1080ti was marked with a small symbol. When I opened the device in the list it said that it couldn't be installed correctly and needed a different set of drivers and while trying to take a screenshot my pc turned down and started right back up in automatic recovery which I let do its thing. Then the system started up again and both graphics cards were displayed as working in the device manager but after that the whole thing repeated and wouldn't start up again with both cards installed. I tested the 960 on its own and it worked just fine. There were two other things I noticed which hadn't occured before. While the system was running the RGB leds were red the entire time and a single blue led on top of the card was constantly blinking, when it crashed the leds started to show rgb colours again and the single led was still blinking blue. when i had the 1080ti running alone it would always display the rgb colours. I don't know if thats just some internal settings and the card is supposed to do that. Does that somehow help to diagnose the problem?

It doesn't smell burned or anything if you mean that. I'm not really able to have two cards installed simultaneously my case is too small for that, or atleast with the two cards I have. I screwed a different cooler onto my RX570 and now it also is a triple slot card, if not even more because of the fan. (I installed an Accelero S3 passive cooler on it with a noiseblocker fan ontop of that) And there is nobody around who i could ask to borrow a card from.

Good evening my dear fellow LTT-subscribers, I've got a little problem.. I recently bought a used GTX 1080Ti it worked smoothly for the last month or so but now I don't get a signal from the card at all. Its LED's are glowing and the system works just fine with my old RX570 but with the new one I can't even see the BIOS startup. The rest of my setup is ASRock AB350 Pro4 AMD Ryzen 5 1600x with bequiet! Shadow rock LP cooler 2x 8GB DDR4-2666MHz Crucial Ballistix Sport LT (might be a little bit slow but when I built the pc I couldn't get anything better or would have had to may almost double the price) bequiet! Straight Power 10 700W 80+ Gold modular (I know it's somewhat overkill for my old card but I got it in B condition for almost nothing) 2x SanDisk Ultra II 480GB SATA-SSDs BIOS on mainboard is up to date, cmos reset didn't help. I tried all display outputs and there is no signal on any of them. Any ideas what I could/should try next? The card has no warranty support and the seller isn't willing to help me (which I can understand, since it worked while he used it). I'd be glad for any help/ideas you guy might have. If you need anything else just let me know :) MfG blau