Can you game on a Trashcan Mac Pro?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In today's episode, we take a look at the highly controversial trash can Mac Pro, and see how it holds up in modern games.
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Appreciate your patience, this video was so much fun to make, and I hope to make many more of this quality. Hope it was worth the wait and you enjoyed it.
Music List:
Stickerbrush Symphony - DKC2: • Donkey Kong Country 2 ...
Bonus Fruit I - Webinar: • Bonus Fruit I
Euphoria - Webinar: • Webinar™ - 06 Euphoria
Extract - Otis McDonald: • Otis McDonald «» Extract
Credits Closing Theme - Half Life: • Credits Closing Theme
Shimura Test - Masques III: • Masques III - Shimura ...
Believe in Yourself - Sonic CD: • Cosmic Eternity ~ Beli...
Thanks for watching!
eternaliam \\ episode 29
#pcgaming #apple #gaming
Misspoke and made a typo at 2:00, was reading up about the other specs of these machines and accidentally wrote 1620. Meant to type 2697, this was the 12 Core, not the 4 Core. Sorry! 🫠
I actually have two trashcan Mac Pros. I acquired the first in late 2022, and the second a couple of months ago.
I've upgraded both with 64 GB of RAM, NVMe SSDs (2 TB in one, and 1 TB in the other) and 3 GHz ten-core CPUs, and they run extremely well. I'm especially proud of the CPU upgrades; it's fiddly but straightforward, and the non-standard CPUs I installed are better-value than Apple's official configurations. You could order a 3 GHz Mac Pro from Apple, but with eight cores; the 3 GHz CPUs I installed have ten!
I run 10.14 Mojave on my Mac Pros (and most of my Intel Macs), and I run my main (2 TB) trashcan with a Blackmagic eGPU that I found for a bargain price. While the eGPU's Radeon Pro 580 graphics performance is significantly lower than my 2010 cheesegrater Mac Pro's RX 580 (likely due to the Thunderbolt 2 bottleneck), the eGPU still performs much better than the internal D300s.
Don’t doubt it runs better, these FirePros even on the high end of what was offered simply haven’t aged well at all. They’re still capable, but not of much.
I’ll revisit this machine down the line with an eGPU and see if there’s any other options to squeeze some performance out of this machine, as I said I think this is still a very good machine if you look past the GPUs.
How about an egpu? Something like a 5900x, if I’m not mistaken
That’s something I considered doing in a part 2 later on. When making this video i presumed eGPUs would have very limited to no support at all on these machines but found out soon after uploading these things can handle a pretty decent eGPU. Thought of making some sort of supercharging type video or something like “Building the Ultimate Trash Can Mac Pro” but will have to do some research as to what the absolute best thing this machine can handle. Definitely will be something I make though.
@@eternaliam I read somewhere that the 5000 series gpu is the top gpu the trash can can handle, but recently heard there are some online that are taking advantage of the AMD 6000 series. I think I gotta look into it more, especially since I’m a huge fan of Apple. It just seems like Apple has been passed over in terms of innovation. Unheard of just 10 years ago it seems. But nice video my friend. Keep it up