This Early 2008 Intel Mac Pro was a very kind donation to the channel - but unfortunately, it got a bit damaged in transit. I've never seen inside one of these before, so what better opportunity to tear it down and see what makes it tick, and also see if it works!

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Chapters: 00:00 The Early 2008 Intel Mac Pro 01:41 Removing The Hard Drives 02:26 Removing The GPU 03:18 Removing The Optical Drive (DVD) 03:51 Note On The Power Supply & Case Airflow 04:56 Removing The RAM 05:26 Removing The Front Case Fans 05:54 Removing Rear Fan & RAM Cage 06:50 A Confession... 08:02 Removing The CPU & Memory Controller Heatsinks & Motherboard Tour 11:41 Repasting The Xeon CPUs & Memory Controller 12:27 First Boot... Does It Even Work? 14:10 Future Plans?