I have the 2009 Mac Pro with two Xeon’s clocked at 2.26 and it scored over 4000 on cinebench! That kind off speed will last my gaming needs a couple more years at least
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I edit 4K 50p 10bit 4:2:0 H265 on mine :) The video files play back perfectly but I have to transcode it because Final Cut Pro wont play it back right, it drops frames. Just briefly tested DaVinci Resolve 17 and it plays perfectly. Will have to do more testing but looks like I have a new editing software to learn. *For those wondering my specs are as follows:* 2 x 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB (Mac Flashed) NVMe + SATA 3 + SATA 2 Drives (Totalling 16.75TB) Blu-ray Drive + DVD Drive MacOS Catalina + Windows 10
@@psivewri donate such high end pcs to us man! We r budget editing category and we need help during this silicon shortage situation (especially in India)😭
Mac Edition GPUs are basically just VBIOS flashed models to be compatible with Apple's "things" (DSMOS). Mac edition cards typically can display preboot stuff, non Mac-edition ones just show black screen till it has booted. That's how I remember it being
These things are surprisingly capable after so long, my brother still uses my Mac Pro 1.1 for gaming to this day, though it's on Windows. It performs way better than what I had when I was his age.
This is impressive because it shows just how good an outdated Xeon still is. I imagine if you try to run Linux with a RX580 in that Mac Pro, you could even play something like Cyberpunk or VR games to put it to an extreme.
You don’t even need Linux. I run Windows 10 and a Vega 56 on low power bios. Runs beautifully, RX 580 is a better match though, you got that right. The Xeon is bottlenecking the Vega hardcore. But I mostly use it for graphics card acceleration on Catalina when I’m editing 4K. This machine still keeps up with my M1 MacBook Air, surprisingly. I let them render side by side often and the Mac Pro still outpaces the M1 at time, not to shabby. But still… the M1 is running on battery and is silent as a mouse! That’s the real winner. Especially when my room is 20 degrees hotter than the rest of the house 🤣 Mac Pros make great space heaters!
@@Tonyisgaming Well, I dunno if Windows 10 would work on that particular workstation here which is why I dropped the Linux suggestion 👀 If 10 runs fine, this Mac Pro should be a nice little yet nerdy gamestation.
@@MegaManNeo ahh, I understand. If I remember correctly Windows 10 won’t run on NVMe but only SATA. Which isn’t the biggest issue. It’s Catalina that was the big issue. Wasn’t easy to get going. Required a lot of hackery… which proves that apple isn’t the beacon of longevity they claim to be. They’re very selective in what devices they allow to support,
@@MegaManNeo They can run Windows 10 fine, using OpenCore as a bootloader. Otherwise on the MacPro5,1 Windows has a tendency to bork the NVRAM by overflowing it, resulting in a bricked computer. (Haven't seen the video yet, but its probably a 5,1)
@Ræn 7 is better, I did tests with windows 7, 8.1 and 10 in the same games with the same settings and OS configuration and 7 had the highest framerate out of all 3, I tested linux by running GTA 4 in wine too and linux ran it the worst but that's because the graphics options were turned all the way up and I couldn't change them.
That looks like a great machine! Good CPU, good GPU, good RAM, and good amount of storage bays. Shame they're all SATA 2 but hey, as the previous owner did, use a PCI SSD which would be faster.
I now understand why your videos are so chill. Eucalyptus has stress-relieving properties, especially when mixed with an aromatic herb, like spearmint.
Got one of these older 5.1 Mac Pro. I love it and use it as a main computer. I am using it with a 30" Cinema Display. Both are in mint condition. Planning to upgrade the CPU, RAM and GPU in the future. These are great computers and still can be very fast.
Lovely video. I will never get rid of my 2009 Mac Pro. Running Windows 10 and MacOS Catalina! Playing Cyberpunk 2077 and BF2042 @ High settings 3440x1440 60FPS steadily. It’s had it’s over heating problems… first the CPUs which ran much cooler after a repaste on upgrade. Then everything was overheating with one component sticking out… the Northbridge Diode. Repasted that bad boy recently and now the whole system is BULLETPROOF. Knock on wood!
I've got one of these I used to use all the time when I upgraded mine last year. 29GB of ram with 12-core 3.31hz Xeon's (Parallel 2x X5680s), I used to use it with an RX5500xt 4gb and a PCIe adapter with an NVMe 500GB SSD. I patched it to Big Sur at first, and then to Monterey. It is amazing how nicely these work after all these years. Now I've taken on hackintoshing, but these classic Mac Pros are a great way to enter into modding macs.
Using a Burned Disc for install is definitely flaky. Right when you started having the issue I was reflecting on my PowerPC Flipping and Collecting days… 😌
I have that same model. But life turned upside down for me due to typhoon and floods in Iloilo, but thankfully moved back to Cebu. Got nothing now but great memories about it. Love that old trustee Mac Pro. Great video man as always.
Nice, very similar specs to my current PC too, I'm rocking a Dell T3500 tower that I got for free, with an upgraded Xeon W-3670 that I got on the cheap. In fact, it's getting treated to an upgrade today with a GTX 980 I got from a friend, but even with a lower end card, these old Xeons still run great all these years later.
@@josephroblesjr.8944 Well yes, currently it still meets my needs to play games with an RX 5700 XT, CPUs just haven't advanced anywhere near the amount they used to. Until the late 2000s things advanced very quickly, my Pentium 4 system from 2003 was basically useless by 2006/7 as a PC, even with a upgrades. But since the first generation core i7 architecture, which is what powers this Mac, things have been far more incremental. Unless you want high refresh gaming, an older CPU will work just fine for high resolution gaming. Once the games consoles advance enough, these ancient toasters will be left behind however...
This is a great machine. I'm currently using a similar Mac Pro. I'm running dual processors 6 core. I've upgraded to a bifurcated PCI card for the SSD NVME Speeds and I'm getting really fast read/write speeds. Additionally, I upgraded the video card to a 8 gig Radeon RX580. This is my main computer and running perfectly well on and open core version of Mac OS. I know I can run Big Sur on it with open core but I'm ready to go through that.
I’m a long time cMP 5,1 owner. I can vouch for this machine and feel it’s the best machine Apple ever built. While my main machine is now a 2019 7,1 Mac Pro there are still lots of uses for the 5,1. BUT Only if you get one starting out cheaply it’s still worth investing in. Unfortunately the low cost of an M1 Mac mini makes it less attractive as an initial buy for many uses if not found cheap. Mine was upgraded slowly over the years as prices on hardware has come down. It’s still a great daily driver if wanted provided you’re capable of getting open core running with the proper guts. With that it will still run the latest MacOS and Windows 10. You’ll be hard pressed to find a machine with as many internal storage options and bays. The internal bays support raid and file transfer speeds are quick when writing to simultaneous drives even on spinning hard drives with redundancy being an option even on external drives via usb 3 by way of a cheap pci card. With that it makes a great flexible high capacity NAS, Plex server, or Time Machine host with dual gigabit Ethernet ports. I have considered installing mine in our coat closet for this purpose. Configured properly it will still transcode video, video edit, or as he’s shown play video games without a sweat. Currently mine has been upgraded to the highest dual CPU variant, 96gb of ram over 6 sticks as it actually performs better on 6 sticks due to addressing, and I upgraded to the RX580 before the GPU shortage for about $100. It’s currently in my 16yo son’s room as his main daily driver using two 24in Cinema Displays. He does everything from his 100% online schooling to playing some really heavy games on it. Even though it takes a bit more finagling than it did previously to update the operating systems the fact that it’s 12 years old she still hardly misses a beat!
Use to work on one at a company back in the day! Always liked the look and they were great then as they are now! Someday, I need to pick up one as a graphic/photo/video edit machine!
Dope Video. Im a mac Enthusiast and i bought one of these direct from Apple in 2011.. Slowly worked it up, ugraded to the dual CPU and runnning a RX580. great fun
I have a 2006 MacPro 1,1 updated to 2,1...upgraded the processors, maxed out the RAM to 32 GB and put in a Radeon card...and even being 15 years old it still plays Steam titles that'll run under MacOS 10.11 pretty well.
I have a 2010 Mac Pro. Bought it in 2015 for$400. Basically brand new, the used it to keep track of inventory in his store. Maxed out ram and he included 4 2tb hds. Best thing I’ve ever bought so far. I record music and edit video on still to this day.
Best computer I ever owned was my 1st gen dual Xeon Mac Pro. Bought mint in 2006. To this day I've never had a machine as stable, upgradable, or trustworthy. Also nobody is stealing it, it's like 90 pounds.
Got the same Mac with the dual CPU tray and 32GB RAM. Also have a 7950 but didn't expect you to get a new Mac Edition 7950 for free those cards costs a really pretty penny. Got Catalina and Windows 10 running on here and it runs very good. Definitely a good machine to have for the next few years, maybe even longer with the RX 580 and CPU upgrade
The 4,1 and 5,1 Mac Pros are legendary. It can be maxed out with 12 cores with some upgrades it could compete and even outperform machines released several years later.
I have a dual cpu 2010 one with 64GB of ECC DDR3 RAM. I replaced the dual quad core with dual 6 cores and upgraded it with a 580 Sapphire Pulse back in 2018. It has a USB-3.0 card which I hooked a Drobo-5C into to run as a kick ass Plex Server. At some point I plan on replacing mine with a second gen Apple Silicon mac mini. The power this machine consumes is enough to push me to replace it.
An incredibly handsome looking computer. There hasn't been anything like it before or since. I have an old G5 machine upstairs in my collection and frankly I just like looking at it XD
Luckily I did exactly what your talking about at the end of the video. Bought a used Mac Pro 5.1 added a NVME SSD via PCIe expansion card plus a SATA one for Windows 10 and finally put in the RX580 from Sapphire before the GPU prices went crazy. It is impressive how this old machine can hold up even in 2021 and especially when installing windows on it. Mine now runs with two 3,46 GHz XEONs and 48 GB of RAM in tripple channel, I also did a video series about the unboxing as well as the whole upgrading and installing process, was a really fun one. Greetings from germany!
i had this mac pro and its fire it kept up with intensive coding, application benchmarks, application stress-testing, it ran multiple servers, it can do whatever you want, the trouble is flashing a modern OS on it because it cant boot from usb drives, but if u can get past that like i did, they sell for cheap, there still fast, and there hella reliable.
I have a 2009 Mac Pro, flashed up to 5,1; 2x 2.93 4-core (8-core); 48 GB RAM, Nvidia Titan Xp 12 GB Collectors Edition (Galactic Empire) flashed for MacOS; LG Curved Ultrawide Monitor, 3440x1440p, 34-inch; Harmaon Kardon / JBL Soundsticks 4 speakers; 2x DVD; Sierra boot drive; Win 7 boot drive. I use MacOS for desktop publishing, and Win 7 for games. Comfortable running Doom Eternal, RAGE 2, locked at 60 fps with all graphics settings maxed at 21:9 1440p. It's a great, stylish machine that makes working fun, and gaming even more so. I use Macs Fan Control on MacOS and Win 7 to boost the fans a bit and keep the Northbridge chip down to 65c even during heavy gaming load.
I’m still using a 2012 MacPro 5,1 for gaming. Upgraded the RAM, installed a 6 core Xeon instead of the quad core it came with, and put in an RX-570. Works well enough for now, and I only paid $80 for it along with a 2008 MacPro, and two older PowerMac G5s. Oh, and running windows 10. Still had Mojave on it, but I haven’t played around with the hacks to put Big Sur on yet.
Watching you dismantle it certainly shows why the damned things were so expensive to begin with - the build quality and materials used looks (on the face of it) excellent - plus with it all compartmentalized and easy to dismantle/build shows a lot of thought went into the design/construction.
A great video as always, but I wish you'd shown how well the first-gen Mac Pro handles gaming in Mac OS. I had a 2008 3,1 Mac Pro for several years, and it was a beast with most games, especially after I hacked it to Mojave and installed a 3GB Metal-capable R9 280x graphics card. Hades, SuperHot, INSIDE, Hollow Knight, Bioshock Infinite, Hitman: Absolution, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Return of the Obra Dinn and more all ran flawlessly on my Mac Pro. Sadly, my Mac Pro died in February 2021 (worsening kernel panics until it wouldn't even reliably turn on anymore), and I replaced it with an M1 Mac Mini, which I'm very happy with. Incidentally, I ran a 1TB 860 EVO SSD in my Mac Pro, and achieved SATA III speeds through a PCIe mounting card.
I would love to own one of these one day, at the moment my collection consists of: An iMac G3 (Summer Special 2001) An eMac G4 (700MHz) An iMac G5 (BROKEN, NEEDS NEW PSU) An Intel based iMac from 2006 (needs a new screen) And I used to have a Early 2009 white plastic MacBook 5,2 which I used for school from 2017, then I bought an Early 2015 MacBook Air 7,2 for around £550ish in 2018 and then in 2019 I bought a 2019 Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15ICH 81FK00BAUK for around £590 (on sale from £799) and then added around £500 of upgrades (RAM & SSD).
Just an FYI, that will support the 5690 Xeon chip at 3.6 ghz. Somewhere there is a firmware update to support this. ( I did it on mine, dual 5690’s ). Also, make sure to update the motherboard firmware with the Mojave installer and it will increase the PCIe slots from 2.5x to 5x. ( don’t install Mojove, just run the first part of the installer to update the system firmware. One last note. Anyone who has a 4,1 that updates it to 5,1… if you buy a dual processor tray to upgrade, get the version your machine originally was and upgrade it from there. If you upgraded a 4,1 to a 5,1, buy a 4,1 processor tray and upgrade it to 5,1. If you don’t, the fans will run on full all the time.
iMacs and macbooks are just insane! This mac is one the many that still works and performs well! I can understand that for certain softwares or power requests, a mac isn't the right choice... But everyone have to admit that these computers are solid! Being able to play games at 60fps after 12 years is awesome! Imagine the current M1 macs in 10 years... they'll be still good and reliable! I mean, some people still use the 2006's macbooks, when they still were white or black painted and made in plastic... They are expensive, but last for more than a decade! 2000€ for 10 years of use it's not much!
It is always satisfying to see yet another computer restored to working conditions. On a side note, while I am not sure about the case for the Mac Pro(s), Windows 7 should be installable onto PCIe / NVMe drives; I am currently running a PCIe SSD expansion on my desktop and Windows 7 runs pretty fine on it.
I almost got one of these at a thrift store, for $50! I had never seen one before, I thought it was the coolest computer I'd ever seen. But someone else bought it before I could get back to the store. $2500 new! Lucky you!
What a beautiful and thoughtful design! Truly deserves the 'Pro' moniker, unlike the upcoming 'trashcan' or expensive and somewhat proprietary 2019 version.
I've been using a dual socket one daily since 2009 (bought the base model with educational discount back then). Upgraded the CPU's, memory and graphics ±5 years ago. It still feels faster in use than a modern MacBook Pro. The only reason I'm considering replacing it, is Apple no longer supporting it with updates for Mac OS... Can't use the newest XCode and release apps to the App store with it.
A couple years ago I saw a Mac Pro for sale at the Salvation Army store for $50. US dollars. The grill of full of dust. In back where the graphics card is was also full of dust. I saw some rust as well, which is why I passed on it. Maybe I should have bought the thing after all
I received the dual processor version free, too, about three years ago and am still using it today for my photo and video editing: the four HDD bays with 1TB each, a SATA SSD in the second DVD bay, 32GB of 1066 MHz RAM, and a somewhat upgraded 2GB MSI GPU for my three monitors. Still a solid computer for the basics, although very outdated on macOS 10.13.
Nice find. I have 2009 flashed 5,1 too. I have OpenCore on it which let’s me be at Big Sure 11.6, and gives me the use of 32GB DIMMs. Current specs are 2 x X5680, 256GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz RAM (albeit running at 1066MHz since it is Quad Rank and not Dual Rank), 4 x 6TB WD Black HDD, 1TB WD RAID AiC SSD, flashed Titan Ridge TB3, LG Blu Ray drive, 1TB SATA SSD in the 2d Optical Drive, and a PowerColor Red Drago 5700 XT. Runs great to this day.
I found a 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 at a dumpster. The case looked great! It was a single cpu version with a Xeon W3565 (4 cores 8 threads). It sadly had no ram and gpu. Now I have upgraded it to a dual socket board with dual Xeon X5690s (6 cores 12 threads each) and 48gb of ram for now. I also put an RX580 8Gb and got everything working with opencore. Luckily due to the flu shortage being gone, it’s much cheaper now. By the way, you said you can’t use a PCIe Nvme SSD. You actually can, I did. However I think you need to upgrade the firmware to do so. It really is a great machine. It highly outperforms my father’s 2017 i7 MacBook pro and works seamlessly with Windows 10 on parallels desktop in hybrid mode with MacOS.
I have an 8-core 2009 Mac Pro with the flashed 10,1 firmware. I had a similar issue when attempting to load windows 10 in bootcamp. Basically, it would go through the whole installation process, and then say an error occurred (it was different than the copying files error he got)
I have a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro on MacOS High Sierra I use for gaming and I haven't upgraded it yet so it still uses the Original 1TB hard disc and it performs well
Still using a heavily upgraded 4/5,1 ('09) Mac Pro as my daily office desktop. Sure, it's not the snappiest machine, but it still does everything I need. The old girl is getting long in the tooth now, and I will sadly have to 'upgrade' at some point, but really can't bear the thought of it yet.
I picked up one of these to run the latest logic and after having to shell out on a RX580 I thought I may as well try it for PC gaming,as a pc gaming novice I had no idea how powerful the spec needed to be but knew it was overpowered for just making music,I bought a dual tray with 64gb memory included from eBay for cheap and am very happy to say I’m playing the likes metro exodus/RE Village/crash 4 and sekiro on ultra settings this mac is very capable and can be bought on eBay fully upgraded for what I assume is a fraction of what it seems to be able to achieve easily But I’m no gaming pc expert I only went this route because I had to pay out so much for my gpu I thought I may as well game on it if I can Very very happy with it
I picked one up for free that was by default the 5,1 model. I actually put a thunderbolt card in mine which took about a week to figure out but It works both in windows 10 and mac os 14. It runs my thunderbolt interfaces like a champ in logic pro X with the lowest latency
I have a dual processor 5,1. I have a AMD 380x in it and a regular SSD (no need for speed here). I only use this beast for Mac specific tasks (far and few now). I hate the 380x isn't flashed, but I have a single slot Apple branded Nvidia card for EFI tasks (again, far and few).
Thanks for watching! Have a nice day 👍
I have the 2009 Mac Pro with two Xeon’s clocked at 2.26 and it scored over 4000 on cinebench! That kind off speed will last my gaming needs a couple more years at least
You too bruh
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@Psivewri Has the IP changed for your Anarchy Server?. its not working
@@wilhelmramlow8704 Copying this from a recent post of mine: Important update about my Minecraft server: After repeated DDOS attacks I've had to shut it down for now. Someone else has claimed the IP address and is hosting their own Minecraft server under the same name. Do not join it, they may have malicious intent and will gain access to your IP address. Just thought I'd warn any of you that still plan on joining.
Again, do not join flancrestmc.hopto.org, that is no longer my server. Thanks for reading 👍
I edit 4K 50p 10bit 4:2:0 H265 on mine :)
The video files play back perfectly but I have to transcode it because Final Cut Pro wont play it back right, it drops frames.
Just briefly tested DaVinci Resolve 17 and it plays perfectly. Will have to do more testing but looks like I have a new editing software to learn.
*For those wondering my specs are as follows:*
2 x 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB (Mac Flashed)
NVMe + SATA 3 + SATA 2 Drives (Totalling 16.75TB)
Blu-ray Drive + DVD Drive
MacOS Catalina + Windows 10
Wow, I just got my first computer project it’s a 2009 MacBook Pro
I'll be sending off the other stuff to you soon Hugh 😁
50p? No wonder your videos look like all stuttery. Modern screens are 60Hz, we don't live in the analogue PAL age anymore.
@@yessssss210 we have the same thing, i can still managed to use music tools such as logic, but its not good from time to time now..
@@psivewri donate such high end pcs to us man! We r budget editing category and we need help during this silicon shortage situation (especially in India)😭
This is my daily workstation and driver - 12 core dual x5650s, GTX 780, 2tb NVME / 20tb spinning/solid SATA storage - a beautiful, timeless machine.
An 11 year old Mac Pro is better than my Gaming PC
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prob bc theres NOTHING installed on it
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Also my PC
Mac Edition GPUs are basically just VBIOS flashed models to be compatible with Apple's "things" (DSMOS). Mac edition cards typically can display preboot stuff, non Mac-edition ones just show black screen till it has booted. That's how I remember it being
Yeah that card probably would output if it had an os w drivers
It still is this way
@@andrupka8749 no PC edition cards work just fine
@@luluthecat1570 yea, they just need to be flashed to show the bootscreen but that's about it
These things are surprisingly capable after so long, my brother still uses my Mac Pro 1.1 for gaming to this day, though it's on Windows. It performs way better than what I had when I was his age.
This is impressive because it shows just how good an outdated Xeon still is.
I imagine if you try to run Linux with a RX580 in that Mac Pro, you could even play something like Cyberpunk or VR games to put it to an extreme.
Xeons are usually a few generations faster than their consumer counterparts (ex. a 2010 Xeon is more like a 2013 i7).
You don’t even need Linux. I run Windows 10 and a Vega 56 on low power bios. Runs beautifully, RX 580 is a better match though, you got that right. The Xeon is bottlenecking the Vega hardcore. But I mostly use it for graphics card acceleration on Catalina when I’m editing 4K. This machine still keeps up with my M1 MacBook Air, surprisingly. I let them render side by side often and the Mac Pro still outpaces the M1 at time, not to shabby. But still… the M1 is running on battery and is silent as a mouse! That’s the real winner. Especially when my room is 20 degrees hotter than the rest of the house 🤣 Mac Pros make great space heaters!
@@Tonyisgaming Well, I dunno if Windows 10 would work on that particular workstation here which is why I dropped the Linux suggestion 👀
If 10 runs fine, this Mac Pro should be a nice little yet nerdy gamestation.
@@MegaManNeo ahh, I understand. If I remember correctly Windows 10 won’t run on NVMe but only SATA. Which isn’t the biggest issue. It’s Catalina that was the big issue. Wasn’t easy to get going. Required a lot of hackery… which proves that apple isn’t the beacon of longevity they claim to be. They’re very selective in what devices they allow to support,
@@MegaManNeo They can run Windows 10 fine, using OpenCore as a bootloader. Otherwise on the MacPro5,1 Windows has a tendency to bork the NVRAM by overflowing it, resulting in a bricked computer. (Haven't seen the video yet, but its probably a 5,1)
The case being intact is what is amazing. Cheese grater makes sill look good to this day. This was a nice score.
Hugh x Psivewri. Best collab ever
“This MAC was supposed to be upgradable” I wish they still were
@Ræn 7 is better, I did tests with windows 7, 8.1 and 10 in the same games with the same settings and OS configuration and 7 had the highest framerate out of all 3, I tested linux by running GTA 4 in wine too and linux ran it the worst but that's because the graphics options were turned all the way up and I couldn't change them.
Are you sure you don't want to setup yourself a recycle business, you seems really good at it!
He supports a local recycling business, from where he picked up some of his project
So where can i get this pc for free? Seems like a good deal to get it and use it for light gaming.
That looks like a great machine! Good CPU, good GPU, good RAM, and good amount of storage bays. Shame they're all SATA 2 but hey, as the previous owner did, use a PCI SSD which would be faster.
I now understand why your videos are so chill. Eucalyptus has stress-relieving properties, especially when mixed with an aromatic herb, like spearmint.
Man, Steve Jobs knew what he was doing 12 years ago, only 12 years later for someone to game on it.
That's hella cool!
Got one of these older 5.1 Mac Pro. I love it and use it as a main computer. I am using it with a 30" Cinema Display. Both are in mint condition. Planning to upgrade the CPU, RAM and GPU in the future.
These are great computers and still can be very fast.
I have this exact model as my daily driver and it never disappointed me
Lovely video. I will never get rid of my 2009 Mac Pro. Running Windows 10 and MacOS Catalina! Playing Cyberpunk 2077 and BF2042 @ High settings 3440x1440 60FPS steadily. It’s had it’s over heating problems… first the CPUs which ran much cooler after a repaste on upgrade. Then everything was overheating with one component sticking out… the Northbridge Diode. Repasted that bad boy recently and now the whole system is BULLETPROOF. Knock on wood!
I've got one of these I used to use all the time when I upgraded mine last year. 29GB of ram with 12-core 3.31hz Xeon's (Parallel 2x X5680s), I used to use it with an RX5500xt 4gb and a PCIe adapter with an NVMe 500GB SSD. I patched it to Big Sur at first, and then to Monterey. It is amazing how nicely these work after all these years. Now I've taken on hackintoshing, but these classic Mac Pros are a great way to enter into modding macs.
Using a Burned Disc for install is definitely flaky. Right when you started having the issue I was reflecting on my PowerPC Flipping and Collecting days… 😌
I seriously always look forward to watching your videos, so thank you for being my favorite source of content on here! Excellent job as always 👍
I have that same model. But life turned upside down for me due to typhoon and floods in Iloilo, but thankfully moved back to Cebu. Got nothing now but great memories about it. Love that old trustee Mac Pro. Great video man as always.
Nice, very similar specs to my current PC too, I'm rocking a Dell T3500 tower that I got for free, with an upgraded Xeon W-3670 that I got on the cheap. In fact, it's getting treated to an upgrade today with a GTX 980 I got from a friend, but even with a lower end card, these old Xeons still run great all these years later.
I got a free Dell T3500 recently too. Gamed on it for a good time then sold it to a friend. Great system.
I would love to own one of these. You could pretty much turn it into a full-size gaming pc with it being so upgradable.
I use this same Mac Pro as my gaming PC, except mine is dual X5680, I still don't feel the need to upgrade quite honestly...
The longer you wait, the more impressed you will be by the gains you see on a new computer
@@josephroblesjr.8944 Well yes, currently it still meets my needs to play games with an RX 5700 XT, CPUs just haven't advanced anywhere near the amount they used to. Until the late 2000s things advanced very quickly, my Pentium 4 system from 2003 was basically useless by 2006/7 as a PC, even with a upgrades. But since the first generation core i7 architecture, which is what powers this Mac, things have been far more incremental. Unless you want high refresh gaming, an older CPU will work just fine for high resolution gaming. Once the games consoles advance enough, these ancient toasters will be left behind however...
This is a great machine. I'm currently using a similar Mac Pro. I'm running dual processors 6 core. I've upgraded to a bifurcated PCI card for the SSD NVME Speeds and I'm getting really fast read/write speeds. Additionally, I upgraded the video card to a 8 gig Radeon RX580. This is my main computer and running perfectly well on and open core version of Mac OS. I know I can run Big Sur on it with open core but I'm ready to go through that.
I’m a long time cMP 5,1 owner. I can vouch for this machine and feel it’s the best machine Apple ever built. While my main machine is now a 2019 7,1 Mac Pro there are still lots of uses for the 5,1. BUT Only if you get one starting out cheaply it’s still worth investing in. Unfortunately the low cost of an M1 Mac mini makes it less attractive as an initial buy for many uses if not found cheap. Mine was upgraded slowly over the years as prices on hardware has come down. It’s still a great daily driver if wanted provided you’re capable of getting open core running with the proper guts. With that it will still run the latest MacOS and Windows 10. You’ll be hard pressed to find a machine with as many internal storage options and bays. The internal bays support raid and file transfer speeds are quick when writing to simultaneous drives even on spinning hard drives with redundancy being an option even on external drives via usb 3 by way of a cheap pci card. With that it makes a great flexible high capacity NAS, Plex server, or Time Machine host with dual gigabit Ethernet ports. I have considered installing mine in our coat closet for this purpose. Configured properly it will still transcode video, video edit, or as he’s shown play video games without a sweat. Currently mine has been upgraded to the highest dual CPU variant, 96gb of ram over 6 sticks as it actually performs better on 6 sticks due to addressing, and I upgraded to the RX580 before the GPU shortage for about $100. It’s currently in my 16yo son’s room as his main daily driver using two 24in Cinema Displays. He does everything from his 100% online schooling to playing some really heavy games on it. Even though it takes a bit more finagling than it did previously to update the operating systems the fact that it’s 12 years old she still hardly misses a beat!
Use to work on one at a company back in the day! Always liked the look and they were great then as they are now! Someday, I need to pick up one as a graphic/photo/video edit machine!
I’d love to have an old iMac and Mac Pro ❤️❤️❤️ this is a great video, as always!
@@holdenvtseries2274 My Mac Pro is from 2007😁
My mac pro's a 2008 model. Excellent machine
@@holdenvtseries2274 ☺️☺️☺️ I have an early 2006 MacBook Pro! Though I use a Late 2008 Unibody MacBook as my daily driver.
Dope Video. Im a mac Enthusiast and i bought one of these direct from Apple in 2011.. Slowly worked it up, ugraded to the dual CPU and runnning a RX580. great fun
I have a 2006 MacPro 1,1 updated to 2,1...upgraded the processors, maxed out the RAM to 32 GB and put in a Radeon card...and even being 15 years old it still plays Steam titles that'll run under MacOS 10.11 pretty well.
I have a 2010 Mac Pro. Bought it in 2015 for$400.
Basically brand new, the used it to keep track of inventory in his store. Maxed out ram and he included 4 2tb hds.
Best thing I’ve ever bought so far.
I record music and edit video on still to this day.
Best computer I ever owned was my 1st gen dual Xeon Mac Pro. Bought mint in 2006. To this day I've never had a machine as stable, upgradable, or trustworthy. Also nobody is stealing it, it's like 90 pounds.
My current work computer, love that thing for audio👌🏻
It would be interesting to see how this MacPro performs against a recent or current iMac.
Luke Miani did a video about that. It outperforms the latest iMac!
@@jfidel3943 But this Mac pro reach the limit of PowerPC architecture
@@Baer9471 this iMac Pro doesnt have a PPC cpu, infact this iMac Pro has Intel Xeon Processor which is based on x64 (amd64) architecture
@@geometrikselfelsefesi oh I am sorry. That means can it run modern software
@@Baer9471 This isn't powerpc, it's Intel.
Socket 1366 systems are great imo, nehalem/westmere still scale well and can yield great performance, even in 2021
Got the same Mac with the dual CPU tray and 32GB RAM. Also have a 7950 but didn't expect you to get a new Mac Edition 7950 for free those cards costs a really pretty penny. Got Catalina and Windows 10 running on here and it runs very good. Definitely a good machine to have for the next few years, maybe even longer with the RX 580 and CPU upgrade
The 4,1 and 5,1 Mac Pros are legendary. It can be maxed out with 12 cores with some upgrades it could compete and even outperform machines released several years later.
I have a dual cpu 2010 one with 64GB of ECC DDR3 RAM. I replaced the dual quad core with dual 6 cores and upgraded it with a 580 Sapphire Pulse back in 2018. It has a USB-3.0 card which I hooked a Drobo-5C into to run as a kick ass Plex Server. At some point I plan on replacing mine with a second gen Apple Silicon mac mini. The power this machine consumes is enough to push me to replace it.
I can only imagine how much power that machine uses 😬
@@psivewri 300W easily - I have a single-cpu version with rx580 and 64gb ram.
An incredibly handsome looking computer. There hasn't been anything like it before or since. I have an old G5 machine upstairs in my collection and frankly I just like looking at it XD
Wow the inside of the mac looks so easy to assemble and looks easy to remove
Luckily I did exactly what your talking about at the end of the video. Bought a used Mac Pro 5.1 added a NVME SSD via PCIe expansion card plus a SATA one for Windows 10 and finally put in the RX580 from Sapphire before the GPU prices went crazy. It is impressive how this old machine can hold up even in 2021 and especially when installing windows on it. Mine now runs with two 3,46 GHz XEONs and 48 GB of RAM in tripple channel, I also did a video series about the unboxing as well as the whole upgrading and installing process, was a really fun one. Greetings from germany!
Still more powerful than what I'm using, I'd be willing to fix the gpu
i had this mac pro and its fire it kept up with intensive coding, application benchmarks, application stress-testing, it ran multiple servers, it can do whatever you want, the trouble is flashing a modern OS on it because it cant boot from usb drives, but if u can get past that like i did, they sell for cheap, there still fast, and there hella reliable.
Such a timeless design
put a mixture of eucalyptus oil and CLP to remove the rust
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I still use this computer for music production. It’s still great 🔥
I have a 2009 Mac Pro, flashed up to 5,1; 2x 2.93 4-core (8-core); 48 GB RAM, Nvidia Titan Xp 12 GB Collectors Edition (Galactic Empire) flashed for MacOS; LG Curved Ultrawide Monitor, 3440x1440p, 34-inch; Harmaon Kardon / JBL Soundsticks 4 speakers; 2x DVD; Sierra boot drive; Win 7 boot drive. I use MacOS for desktop publishing, and Win 7 for games. Comfortable running Doom Eternal, RAGE 2, locked at 60 fps with all graphics settings maxed at 21:9 1440p. It's a great, stylish machine that makes working fun, and gaming even more so. I use Macs Fan Control on MacOS and Win 7 to boost the fans a bit and keep the Northbridge chip down to 65c even during heavy gaming load.
I’m still using a 2012 MacPro 5,1 for gaming. Upgraded the RAM, installed a 6 core Xeon instead of the quad core it came with, and put in an RX-570. Works well enough for now, and I only paid $80 for it along with a 2008 MacPro, and two older PowerMac G5s. Oh, and running windows 10. Still had Mojave on it, but I haven’t played around with the hacks to put Big Sur on yet.
Halo reach at 8:59!
I can't believe people giving away machines like this for free
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This is why apple is one of the best tech manufacture . You buy something and have it for a long time
You would never find anyone give them away around here
I've had one of these sitting around for about 10 years wating on inspiration to do some sort of modding project, one day!
Watching you dismantle it certainly shows why the damned things were so expensive to begin with - the build quality and materials used looks (on the face of it) excellent - plus with it all compartmentalized and easy to dismantle/build shows a lot of thought went into the design/construction.
Yesss! Another awesome vid!
A great video as always, but I wish you'd shown how well the first-gen Mac Pro handles gaming in Mac OS.
I had a 2008 3,1 Mac Pro for several years, and it was a beast with most games, especially after I hacked it to Mojave and installed a 3GB Metal-capable R9 280x graphics card.
Hades, SuperHot, INSIDE, Hollow Knight, Bioshock Infinite, Hitman: Absolution, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Return of the Obra Dinn and more all ran flawlessly on my Mac Pro.
Sadly, my Mac Pro died in February 2021 (worsening kernel panics until it wouldn't even reliably turn on anymore), and I replaced it with an M1 Mac Mini, which I'm very happy with.
Incidentally, I ran a 1TB 860 EVO SSD in my Mac Pro, and achieved SATA III speeds through a PCIe mounting card.
Did you changed all RAM on old Mac Pro it's would be back to works
When a 12 Year Free Mac Pro has much higher specs than your Potato PC
Found one of these in ewaste today.
What keyboard is that? 8:36
Hi! Can you please make a vid about using a 2006 MacPro 1.1 in 2021? Would be interesting IMO.
@Tanya Mina yeah! His vids never fail to entertain me.
One of these is my main system. It’s a dual CPU though. Started out as a 2009 8 core, is now a 5,1 12 core.
I play cyberpunk2077 on it.
I would love to own one of these one day, at the moment my collection consists of:
An iMac G3 (Summer Special 2001)
An eMac G4 (700MHz)
An iMac G5 (BROKEN, NEEDS NEW PSU)
An Intel based iMac from 2006 (needs a new screen)
And I used to have a Early 2009 white plastic MacBook 5,2 which I used for school from 2017, then I bought an Early 2015 MacBook Air 7,2 for around £550ish in 2018 and then in 2019 I bought a 2019 Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15ICH 81FK00BAUK for around £590 (on sale from £799) and then added around £500 of upgrades (RAM & SSD).
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Mine is with an acer 5750
Hp 840 g2
Msi ge70 2oe 011ne
2 custom pcs
And like 9 more in the basement
Looks good
Just an FYI, that will support the 5690 Xeon chip at 3.6 ghz. Somewhere there is a firmware update to support this. ( I did it on mine, dual 5690’s ). Also, make sure to update the motherboard firmware with the Mojave installer and it will increase the PCIe slots from 2.5x to 5x. ( don’t install Mojove, just run the first part of the installer to update the system firmware. One last note. Anyone who has a 4,1 that updates it to 5,1… if you buy a dual processor tray to upgrade, get the version your machine originally was and upgrade it from there. If you upgraded a 4,1 to a 5,1, buy a 4,1 processor tray and upgrade it to 5,1. If you don’t, the fans will run on full all the time.
My favourite tower design of all time!
iMacs and macbooks are just insane!
This mac is one the many that still works and performs well!
I can understand that for certain softwares or power requests, a mac isn't the right choice...
But everyone have to admit that these computers are solid!
Being able to play games at 60fps after 12 years is awesome!
Imagine the current M1 macs in 10 years...
they'll be still good and reliable!
I mean, some people still use the 2006's macbooks, when they still were white or black painted and made in plastic...
They are expensive, but last for more than a decade!
2000€ for 10 years of use it's not much!
It is always satisfying to see yet another computer restored to working conditions.
On a side note, while I am not sure about the case for the Mac Pro(s), Windows 7 should be installable onto PCIe / NVMe drives; I am currently running a PCIe SSD expansion on my desktop and Windows 7 runs pretty fine on it.
Hugh has a 2010 Mac Pro and apple discontinued os updates for the desktop. But he was able to get around that with a new card. Old isn’t always bad.
I always loved this design. Gorgeous.
My Mac Pro is the 2010 model
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I love these old Mac Pro's but the reason I dumped mine was power usage. It was pretty insane. My M1 MBA uses a fraction of it.
I almost got one of these at a thrift store, for $50! I had never seen one before, I thought it was the coolest computer I'd ever seen. But someone else bought it before I could get back to the store. $2500 new! Lucky you!
Howdy from Adelaide as well! I’ve just started my older max collection with a Mac Pro 3.1, always wanted one.
the way you spread thermal paste made my heart drop for a sec
Was, is and always will be my favorite desktop design. Posting this from my daily driver 2010 mac pro :)
Great video! Thanks for sharing. You can even install Windows 10 on it and give it a couple of more years of light gaming :D
What a beautiful and thoughtful design! Truly deserves the 'Pro' moniker, unlike the upcoming 'trashcan' or expensive and somewhat proprietary 2019 version.
So where can i get this pc for free? Seems like a good deal to get it and use it for light gaming.
I've been using a dual socket one daily since 2009 (bought the base model with educational discount back then). Upgraded the CPU's, memory and graphics ±5 years ago. It still feels faster in use than a modern MacBook Pro. The only reason I'm considering replacing it, is Apple no longer supporting it with updates for Mac OS... Can't use the newest XCode and release apps to the App store with it.
I was amazed he didn't put Windows 10. Maybe because it's not as stable as Windows 7. Also, Mac Pro+Windows 7 = Gaming machine killer.
this is better than my new pc bruh
A couple years ago I saw a Mac Pro for sale at the Salvation Army store for $50. US dollars. The grill of full of dust. In back where the graphics card is was also full of dust. I saw some rust as well, which is why I passed on it. Maybe I should have bought the thing after all
I received the dual processor version free, too, about three years ago and am still using it today for my photo and video editing: the four HDD bays with 1TB each, a SATA SSD in the second DVD bay, 32GB of 1066 MHz RAM, and a somewhat upgraded 2GB MSI GPU for my three monitors. Still a solid computer for the basics, although very outdated on macOS 10.13.
I'm so jealous lmao
Catalina patcher! :)
Nice find. I have 2009 flashed 5,1 too. I have OpenCore on it which let’s me be at Big Sure 11.6, and gives me the use of 32GB DIMMs. Current specs are 2 x X5680, 256GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz RAM (albeit running at 1066MHz since it is Quad Rank and not Dual Rank), 4 x 6TB WD Black HDD, 1TB WD RAID AiC SSD, flashed Titan Ridge TB3, LG Blu Ray drive, 1TB SATA SSD in the 2d Optical Drive, and a PowerColor Red Drago 5700 XT. Runs great to this day.
I found a 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 at a dumpster. The case looked great! It was a single cpu version with a Xeon W3565 (4 cores 8 threads). It sadly had no ram and gpu. Now I have upgraded it to a dual socket board with dual Xeon X5690s (6 cores 12 threads each) and 48gb of ram for now. I also put an RX580 8Gb and got everything working with opencore. Luckily due to the flu shortage being gone, it’s much cheaper now. By the way, you said you can’t use a PCIe Nvme SSD. You actually can, I did. However I think you need to upgrade the firmware to do so. It really is a great machine. It highly outperforms my father’s 2017 i7 MacBook pro and works seamlessly with Windows 10 on parallels desktop in hybrid mode with MacOS.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on morden day AMD hardware. R5 2600 CPU, MSI Tomahawk Max MB, RX580 8GB OC GPU, 16GB 3200MHZ DDR4 RAM.
1:38 i have been lughing at that mouse for a solid minute
This rescues, love it.
What's the newest Mac OS can that support?
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Another great video! Cheers from Brazil!
I rock a G5 PowerMac but I wish I had one of these old Mac Pros laying around
I have an 8-core 2009 Mac Pro with the flashed 10,1 firmware. I had a similar issue when attempting to load windows 10 in bootcamp. Basically, it would go through the whole installation process, and then say an error occurred (it was different than the copying files error he got)
Clean video, clean explanation. Top Class!
I am still using this as my main computer 😂
Same here! Kinda… I have this and a 2011 iMac I also have my prized MacBook Pro 2011 with 2 ssd’s
U r blessed to have one ❤️
I have a 2010 5,1 Mac Pro on MacOS High Sierra I use for gaming and I haven't upgraded it yet so it still uses the Original 1TB hard disc and it performs well
well, i can now finally go to my relative"s place in australia as i hope its snowing there
Still using a heavily upgraded 4/5,1 ('09) Mac Pro as my daily office desktop. Sure, it's not the snappiest machine, but it still does everything I need.
The old girl is getting long in the tooth now, and I will sadly have to 'upgrade' at some point, but really can't bear the thought of it yet.
I picked up one of these to run the latest logic and after having to shell out on a RX580 I thought I may as well try it for PC gaming,as a pc gaming novice I had no idea how powerful the spec needed to be but knew it was overpowered for just making music,I bought a dual tray with 64gb memory included from eBay for cheap and am very happy to say I’m playing the likes metro exodus/RE Village/crash 4 and sekiro on ultra settings this mac is very capable and can be bought on eBay fully upgraded for what I assume is a fraction of what it seems to be able to achieve easily
But I’m no gaming pc expert
I only went this route because I had to pay out so much for my gpu I thought I may as well game on it if I can
Very very happy with it
I picked one up for free that was by default the 5,1 model. I actually put a thunderbolt card in mine which took about a week to figure out but It works both in windows 10 and mac os 14. It runs my thunderbolt interfaces like a champ in logic pro X with the lowest latency
wtf this is better than my 5yrs low end gaming brick
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I have a dual processor 5,1. I have a AMD 380x in it and a regular SSD (no need for speed here). I only use this beast for Mac specific tasks (far and few now). I hate the 380x isn't flashed, but I have a single slot Apple branded Nvidia card for EFI tasks (again, far and few).