I wanted to start out by saying that I've been extremely happy with my current (and first PC build) of my Mac Hak Pro, using the Silverstone FT02 case. I call it the "Black Sheep of the Family." Here are some pics to show you the finished work:
 

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Core i7 970 @ 4.00 Ghz / Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 - Ver. 1 (BIOS - F7)
24GB G.Skill Ripjaws GDDR3 1600Mhz RAM Kit 9-9-9-24 / EVGA GTX 480 Superclocked
120GB SSD Mushkin Deluxe SSD / 600GB Velociraptor
Sony AD-7260S DVD & LG Blu-Ray Burners / Silverstone Fortress FT02 / Silverstone ST1500W
5500 RPM 253CFM Delta 120x38mm Fans w/Custom PWM Speed Control Knob (1500-5500 RPM)
CPU, GPU & MOBO are Water Cooled by Koolance / Mac OS X Lion 10.7
(Geekbench Score: 18,131 / Cinebench 11.5: OpenGL: 39.79 fps, CPU: 10.70 pts)
 
The reason for this build is too much to go into but I fell in love with the unique design of this case; not only on the outside (because of it's mac like look), but mainly because of how it is setup inside - IT'S VERTICAL BABY !!! As time has gone by I decided that I wanted to go after building another Mac Hak Pro, and take advantage of the processing power of the EVGA SR-2 Mobo and after viewing this vid from YouTube entitled:
 
"EVGA SR-2 HACKINTOSH: 24 Cores of Devastation" From: MikeD826
(sorry you're going to have to type it in the YouTube search bar as I'm not allowed to post links).
 
I finally made the decision after watching this vid and talking to Mike D. to make this happen… a year later !!! But better late than never…
 
I contacted Joel (he's tech support and a little bit of everything else over there) at Silverstone and ordered the TJ11 (along with a few other parts that I knew I was going to need). The reason why I wanted this unit was (again) because of the vertical airflow design. Plus, I don't think anyone has completed or has shown any progress on a like/kind design with TJ11 / SR-2 build yet. BTW, if there is one out there that's completed this type of build, please let me know, thanks...
 
Well, here it is… FINALLY !!! The results. I was a bit nervous and excited at the same time; wanting to find out if this was going to need some major modding or not. So I took out a few things here and there to make the SR-2 fit and guess what… IT DOES !!! If you look closer you can see how well it fits. It butts up right against the bottom plate. Simply amazing !!! Now the only thing that I have to do is add 3 to 4 small washers in between each of the screws that lock the sliding plate (where the mobo is attached to) in place to elevate it by an 1/8 of an inch and it will be perfect. 
 
I can't believe this actually fit the first time out. What's even more surprising is that the designers at Silverstone (if they had spent a little bit of time) could've been able to figure this out and also provided an optional back plate specifically made for the SR-2. Everything else is just fine. Just take out the 180 mm fans and put 4 x Silverstone Channeling AP121 fans in it's place of the AP181's and you'll have the same vertical airflow you're seeking (well, at least that's what I'm seeking). Even though this will be water cooled I still will want that additional airflow. More detail will be shared later on how this will work. For now I'm going to have to figure out how to cover the venting holes on the cover plates and a few other things. That shouldn't be too hard. I might even go so far to maybe order the backplate for that SR-2 from Mountain Mods, but as it stands right now, it fits just fine as it is. I might just leave it be. If I do I will have to mod the back a bit by cutting out some of the back plate for the lower positioned processor. This will be my second PC build. So far I'm very grateful to see that SR-2 fits. Well the great thing is, if anyone had any doubts… well, doubt no longer !!! Enjoy the pics !!! 
 

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More pics coming as things progress… Any comments/suggestions would be great. Later… PNugg... 
 
PS - I'm actually a reseller for Silverstone, Koolance, OCZ, Mushkin, Scythe and a few others out there. So most of my parts will be installed in this unit by these various companies. If you're interested in this case or anything else parts-wise, just PM me and let me know what you want and/or need. Hopefully I'll be able to meet what Newegg (at times) beats me on their pricing… They purchase in much larger quantity than I do. But I can definitely hook up some Silverstone parts deals…  Again, later...
 
 

This will be sweet....now get to work
Will be watching this build

hennemeyer
Love to see the SR-2 as a Hackintosh. 

 
Hey Henne,
Gald to see that you found me. I wanted to (again) mention that I wasn't the first one to make the SR-2 into a Hackintosh, as I mentioned in before MikeD826 was the one (or at least one of the first ones that made that happen) and posted his success on YouTube. Can you believe he was reaching Geekbench scores of an average of 33,000 points ?!?!? That is amazing considering that if you bought a Mac Pro with the same processing power you'd be spending close to $9,000 (or slightly more) for the same system that he (and I) have at less than half that cost. Also, you can style it to make it look like a Dragster (with all the "chromey" trimmings) !!! Now to me that's more like it !!! Plus, it will run (personally) more efficiently. For right now OS X Snow Leopard (SL) 10.6.4 works just fine with the SR-2. We'll see if we can get OS X Lion 10.7 to work with it. That's the next step after the build.
 
There are couple of guys at (KingKong89 is one of them) that made it happen with at least SL. I really want (and need) for Lion to work with this because the GTX 480 works natively with Lion and uses CUDA and Mercury, which is what I need for rendering power for my apps like Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, etc...
 
I will be attacking this build sometime next week, but need to get a few parts as I'm wanting to fit the larger 4 Rad unit along with the 4 x AP121's on the base plate somehow and need to make sure things fit well. I will also need another Koolance CPU-370 (for the other processor). Also, just to let you know I will be taking apart my current MHP apart to use the existing parts to build the SR-2 MHP. But I have another quick build (in the meantime) that I'm putting together that is using the very same UD7 (ver. 1) mobo, to make sure that I'm still productive so I don't put all my eggs in one basket with the new SR-2 MHP build. It's funny that cateno made the comment:
 

cateno 
nice project if the quality assembly is the same way on gigabyte UD7, with the SR2 is a good idéa to use the silverstone you have in mind to make SR2 hackintocsh you to

 
because that's exactly what my plan is. I'm sad to see my first build being taken apart, but quite honestly I really wanted to do this in the first place. Worse comes to worse I'll still have the backup MHP that I'm now putting together, but it won't look same with the current water-cooled setup I have (as I need those very parts for the SR-2). What I am putting in it's place is the Corsair H100 for the original MHP and from what I've read on the other review forums like it works just as good or at least close to it... Later guys... PNugg... 
 

I think this should be in the mods rigs section so I'll move it there

Looks very very good..!

Its a thing of Beauty.  Good choice with the tubing/fluid colors (I did the exact same).  Can't wait to see the finished product.

It is given to those with awesome rigs (or rigs in progress) and helpful posts. I think each one is worth 2 EVGA bucks that can be used on the EVGA Products page.
 
So looking back at your post, rjohnson probably gave you a ribbon for the first rig.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to post something here today (or should I say tonight) to let people know that things are still progressing and I'm debating on which radiator that I want to use. I say this because I just won a bid on eBay from someone that's actually following this post that neither one of us even realized. Here is the link to show you exactly what it was that I won: 



Now the reason why am hesitating on continuing my build, is I'm waiting for all of these parts to arrive (hopefully within the next couple of days). One of the big things that I'm debating, is if I really need to have the Koolance water block on my motherboard or not, (I really like it on there though). The other thing that I'm debating is whether I should use the Koolance 4 fan Rad or the FTC XChanger 480 (one that I had just one in that eBay bid). I would really like to keep everything consistent and just use Koolance parts and accessories but I read some reviews on the FTC 480 here:



and although this is an older review, not much as changed with radiator technology with the exception of the new one that is supposed to be coming out from the Feser company (video located here):



Talk about technology increasing to another level in radiator cooling - THIS IS MIND BLOWING STUFF !!! In any case, if the FTC 480 fits, then I will probably be using that radiator and selling the new Koolance one that I have on eBay in the near future (unless of course somebody here would like to have that one when I make my mind up when that time comes within the next few days). I'll be posting up some pictures to let you see how things have progressed here shortly in the next few days.

If any of you have used the FTC 480 and know the pros and cons to this product, please let me know. My current build that I have uses the high air flow Koolance 3 fan Rad and that's been working wonderfully plus it's much thinner and got a great review here:



It actually did better than some of the thicker Rads that he reviewed even his favorite one was beaten (just slightly) by the Koolance one, but I do have to say I really love the thickness, density and awesome presence that the FTC 480 has. Plus it can hold a lot more coolant and doesn't need to have higher fan speed to keep things cooler. But in reality, neither does the high air flow Koolance one that I'm currently using. I guess we'll see what happens. Until then thanks for following this post and I'll be chatting with all of you later…

PS - I just purchased a Xeon W3680 for only $400, (basically a 980X) and easily rocked it to 4.2GHz and it has not frozen even once on my Mac Hak Pro. I built another one using this CPU as well is using the new Corsair H100 and it's running very cool at 29°C in an 80 to 82°F room; which I think is fantastic. Just thought I'd mention that. I'm getting the using the same CPU on my very 1st build to see how much cooler it runs on my ALL Koolance (Mac Hak Pro) setup.
 
PS - I just noticed something, as I posted this new reply to all of you that none of the web links were (I guess allowed) to be posted; as it's obvious that I'm a new member. Too bad because those links would be really great to look at and review. If you do want to see those links just PM me and I will send you all the links so can better understand what I was just posting here, Actually you can go here to see all the links:
 
www...... LOL !!!
 
Later...   
 

Thank Havoc for the Big-Ups...  Can't wait to get this finished, but I have an online product business with customers that have priority over my personal build and I need to fill orders... Again, thanks... Later...

That is a really cool looking build. Nice!

Well, I've been waiting on parts and still need to wait on a few more before I start my build. (Nov, 20 estimated start date). I wanted to update you on the stuff that came in from the auction that I won on eBay. Now mind you this the 1st time I ever experienced anything that came in less than what I expected. But unfortunately this was one of those times.

When I went into the UPS store to pick up my package it was very heavy and I immediately could hear shifting of items when I slightly tilted the box to carry it. That set off a big alarm in my head thinking “Oh no, don't tell me this guy did not pack it correctly?” Well and I went home and that's exactly what I saw when I open up the box was very poor packaging. 

As I was looking through everything the only thing that really stuck out to me that I would think would have been the ONE thing that I thought would have been properly packaged and that was the TFC 480 radiator, right? Although the item doesn't look mint anymore, (which to me as a meticulous builder was hoping for) I decided to test the radiator (as I was going to use it in my in my PC build anyway). Unfortunately the radiator is just too thick for me to be able install it inside the unit the way I want to, so I put it up on eBay for sale. If anyone is interested in looking at it, all you have to do is just get on eBay and type in the search engine:

TFC XChanger 480ER Feser

and it should pop up for you with no problems. You will obviously see some of the dings and dents on the radiator itself. In the meantime here are some updated pics on my build... Feedback is always appreciated, later...  

By at 2011-11-02 (These are NOT the fans that I will be using. I will be using the PWM knob control adjusted 120x38mm Delta fans from my initial build (above). These are just being used as a reference tool)

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By at 2011-11-02 (Bottom plate on top of the Rad. The plate will be custom cut and sandwiched between the Rad and the fans to maintain the stock Channeling Air-Flow design that I did not want to disrupt for this build. This was my main hurdle to make sure that would work, as the 2 x 180mm fans that came with this unit will NOT fit as it will clearly be in the way of the SR-2 Mobo.)

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WOW, Looking very nice!
 
 

Thats a tight fit, but I'm looking forward to the completed machine. Looks awesome so far.

Hey Guys,
It's almost midnight; before the new year of 2012 - you go economic collapse (you know that's coming, right?) Anyhoo, I just wanted to update all of you with some pics. First this one. My wife put my B-Day cards (from her and my boys) IN the PC case that I was tubing a couple of days ago.
 
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Here I am two days later finally bleeding the tubing. Man, these DDC Laing pumps, as small as they are, are POWERFUL & QUIET; especially when you run them in series with each other... Hope you like the pics...
 
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BTW, HAPPY NEW YEAR and get prepared for the LOOOONG winter ahead (if you know what I mean, if you don't just PM me and I'll explain it in more detail). Later all... 

Question to anyone that reads this:
 
If I have a very small single-lined stream of air bubbles still flowing in my tubing of the Dual Bay/Dual DDC Laing Pump Koolance 402x2 looped system (that is running in series with each other), will that cause any issues? (Actually, I like it as it's reveals the water flow a bit). I ask this because I've never experienced this before in my prior (and initial build). It was much easier because I was able move the case with ease, but even with this build I was still tip the machine (while letting the motors still run) near 90° left, right, up, down, and I don't know this caused any further issues. I did notice that the right side of the bay seemed to have more fluid in it once I tipped it over and it would not stop making more noise, so I shut it off and I actually had to take out the Bay and open up the area that had more fluid and the pressure that built up in the unit was so strong that it literally spurted out right in front of me - LOL !!! Thank goodness I had a towel in front of it and below it to catch the fluid as I did not want to get anything inside the case. A few drops got here and there but I was able to quickly clean up and blow out the rest of it using my Metro Datavac electric duster. (That Datavac is extremely powerful and the best investment I've made so far, as I almost considered buying cans of air that I would've quickly gone through in no time and has been an invaluable tool for blowing things out and drying things up quickly).
 
Anyway, I don't know if this is typical for a setup like this to have that kind of pressure running in a looped system that is running in series with 2 pumps. I had the other system run with 2 pumps running separately and never had that issue.
 
BTW, just to let you know I was able to level out both sides of each bay once I opened up the the one side of the screws when all that fluid came out because of the pressure.
 
Lastly, everything so far has been working well and there has been no leaks over the last 15 hours that this unit has been running, but I'm going to let it run another 15 hours just to make sure tomorrow while I'm putting other things together in the unit. I look forward to any help that anyone can give. I'm also going to get in touch with Martin at: martinsliquidlab dot org to get his expert advice as I'm sure he's been through this before. I'm still puzzled as to why one side of the bay (while it's running) is pressurized and the other side isn't when I undo the front bay screws? But when I shut it off and I undo any of the screws on either side of the Koolance 402x2 Bay unit that they are BOTH pressurized and fluid wants to come out of both of them. Again, if anyone can give me some kind of advice that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...