The Laser Hive

This kit is the Mac Pro equivalent to our ‘next generation’ type kit for the G5 ATX Kit with PSU mount.

Instructions download

Here are some link for the detailed instructions for the Mac Pro ATX kit:

Stainless steel tray notes

Mac Pro next gen kit

Kit Details

The kit mounts in the same way as the G5 kit using shelf mountings and lower case mountings to fix the tray in place inside the Mac Pro casing.

Mac Pro ATX kit with PSU mount

The rear of the Pro kit fits as shown above to allow a full ATX board to go into the Mac Pro casing. For full kit details please download the instructions – note that we make this in two variants (like the G5 kits) of “Standard” or “Deluxe”. The deluxe variation has an acetal sheet drive holder for holding up to three 2.5″ drives in place beneath the motherboard. For details of this please see the  TNG tray notes which explains how the holder works.

Brushed stainless steel tray

All kit variants now come with a brushed stainless steel tray as standard. These trays have integrated standoff mountings ( you can change positions of the standoffs according to whether you  want to mount an ATX motherboard, or a micro ATX or even a Mini ITX.

Deluxe trays ( as pictured above) feature an integrated SSD holder.

These stainless steel trays are much easier to fit than the acrylic version and will fit correctly first time, every time. In addition these are easily recyclable at end of life.

There are some compromises you will need to note when fitting an ATX board into these cases:

 (1) You will lose the original hard drive mounts as you will have to cut the top shelf to allow the motherboard to fit. This is inevitable unfortunately.

(2) Some (later) Mac Pros also have an internal bottom shelf and fitting our next generation type kits will mean you need to cut out that bottom shelf to be able to access the lower case screws.