In a weird twist of fate, my search for an Intel MacPro case has led me down the path of actually building a MacPo. I was originally just going to mod an Intel MacPro case like I did the G5 case. After I found a case and saw it had all the little bits and pieces that tend to nickel and dime a project to death, I got to thinking.

A little searching and I found everything I need to build a MacPro. For all purposes it is a MacPro but I do have to throw my own little touches on it, like water cooling From what people have related to me, the MacPros are not noisy but any way to cut down on noise make me a lot happier

EDIT Due to the size constraints in the case, water cooling is on hold but it will happen. I just need to really research it.

I have been in a frenzy of ordering yesterday and today and awaiting parts so as they come, I will be posting pics and once everything is here, I will do a build log. I am expecting the case, logic board, cpus and the other water cooling block (reusing my existing one but still need two of them) shortly after Christmas. I might go ahead and order the PSU, memory and memory riser cards today as well just debating if I want to stretch my bank account that thin right now.

Here is the break down of what I have spent. I have not ordered the memory just yet but that will be the price.

CPUs (two) 515.00
Case 325.00
Logic Board 782.02
Memory Risers (two) 211.00
Power Supply 301.00
Memory 330.00
CPU Coolers 134.70
Logic board screws 4.00
Leopard 124.99
Mac 7300GT 160.00

Total 2887.71

I am estimating another $200-$250 for the water cooling when that part comes.

Finally having a real Mac Priceless (yes that is SUPER cheesy but I could not resist)

The CPUs are Xeon 2.4 GHz Quad Core 1066 FSB Engineering Samples. They *should* OC to 3.0 GHz with the BSEL mod which will give me 8 cores of 3.0 GHz goodness running 1333 FSB Memory will be 8GB of FB-DIMM. Prices are so low right now it would be silly not to get 8 GBs.

The memory riser cards were 90 each and the PSU was 267 but since it was bought from a company in California I had to pay tax.

I will be re-using my hard drives. I have an IDE dvd-rom which I will use and I am going to see if my boss minds if I swap out my IDE dvd-rw at work with my SATA one. He is cool and will probably say yes so that will save me $30-40 on buying a new one. I am going to try re-using my Asus 7300GT Video Card but not sure if NVinject will work. It will be not biggie to buy an real Mac 7300GT if I need to.

EDIT:
Updated 01-01-2008 Update price list to current totals
Updated 12-23-2007 to add in the price of Leopard. doh!
Updated 12-26-2007 removed water cooling from price list, added in air cooled heatsinks, Apple Remote, Screws and cheesy line
Updated 2-1-2008 Changed price on logic board as the first one was not 100% working and new one cost a LOT more. Also remover Apple Remote from list as it never showed up and my ATI All in Wonder remote works