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Okay forum I need your help. There are people selling used Mac Pro 1.1s for dirt cheap and I was wondering if you could swap the motherboard for a newer Mac Pro-compatible LGA 1150 or 2011 board. The current MB is LGA 771 so can I upgrade the motherboard. No haters!

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no you cant.

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Why not?

You'd basically be building a hackintosh at that point.

 

Is it the dual socket? I'd get a pair of 5160s 771 CPUs go very cheap on ebay.

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Why not?

Proprietary form factor, doesn't allow for non-factory mobos.

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If I do go the hackintosh route would it be legal?

Yes. But you'd need to not buy that mac Pro.

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the new mac pros use a new form facter and thus these new mobo's arent compatible with the old macs

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Mac Pro towers use Apple-specific boards. The CPUs are installed on a card, that then plugs into the motherboard, or "Logic Board" as Apple calls it.

 

No, only the ram is on extra "side-boards" ;)

 

edit: well ... some Mac Pro models also had the CPU on that extra boards :P

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If I do go the hackintosh route would it be legal?

 

It's legal if you use a mac to download the os afaik, and if it was illegal @LinusTech wouldn't be promoting his hackintosh build so openly on his channel... Don't get the mac pro though, build it from scratch.

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Mac OS x is free so no.

OS X costs $30...

 

And Hackintoshing itself is against Apple's ToS, in which they can but rarely will bring legal action against you.

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OS X costs $30...

 

And Hackintoshing itself is against Apple's ToS, in which they can but rarely will bring legal action against you.

Plenty of freewares can be purchased & shipped in a dvd/cd drive with an extra cost. Theyre doing the same thing. If you're not allowed to pirate os x and install it on your PC, then you aren't allowed to pirate it for your MBP. They put a lot of BS in their ToS but until they decide to require an activation code you aren't doing anything wrong.

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Plenty of freewares can be purchased & shipped in a dvd/cd drive with an extra cost.

I own a Mac. I paid $20 or $30 to upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion on the Mac App Store.

 

Granted this was a while ago, but it doesn't make the OS free. Part of the price of a Mac is the licensing of the OS.

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Yeah on the later tower style Mac pros, the CPUs and RAM sticks were on a daughter board that slid into the logic board. It was a good system if you think about. But alas, it is no more.

 

2006 & 2008 -> only RAM

2009,2010,"2012" -> RAM and CPU

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