Gaming On A Free Mac Pro... From 12 Years Ago!
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2021
- Today we're going to be cleaning up and gaming on an old Mac Pro! This is a cool old machine, but what exactly is it capable of? Let's find out :)
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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
No u
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Use it as a back-up editing machine.
32GB of RAM, 6 cores and a HD7950 are decent for a Final Cut Pro installation. The only shame is that Xeon lacks QuickSync.
Wait does final cut pro not use the graphics card hardware acceleration tho?
@@Xpain It will use it, but at times QuickSync is a faster, better-performing encoder and decoder.
@@JackBandicootsBunker i see
@@Xpain Xeon x56xx do not have QuickSync but have SSE 4.2, very similar to the Altivec of the PowerPc that FinalCutx uses together with all cores and Hypertrading if necessary. The AMD 7950 manages to push well even 4K videos, in play, an AMD560 / 580 succeeds better. But the MacPro, when well maintained and with routine maintenance, are exceptional machines.
QuickSync is trash.
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.
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.
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
An 11 year old Mac Pro is better than my Gaming PC
Same
Same
prob bc theres NOTHING installed on it
Same
Also my PC
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!
@@TonyisToking 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)
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.
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.
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 👍
The case being intact is what is amazing. Cheese grater makes sill look good to this day. This was a nice score.
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 have this exact model as my daily driver and it never disappointed me
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.
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!
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… 😌
Yesss! Another awesome vid!
Clean video, clean explanation. Top Class!
This rescues, love it.
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.
Another great video! Cheers from Brazil!
I love your every video
Thanks alot to post alot of intresting videos
🔥🔥🔥 Nice vid man!
Good work!
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 really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
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.
I always loved this design. Gorgeous.
Love your videos
Keep up the good work 😄😄
My current work computer, love that thing for audio👌🏻
Nathan! you are the best!
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.
The design looks so good!
Such a timeless design
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 like this VIDEOS THANK YOU SO MUCH
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!
the way you spread thermal paste made my heart drop for a sec
Wow the inside of the mac looks so easy to assemble and looks easy to remove
I’m jealous.. He gave it to you!!!! Wow!!
Amazing video lesson well put together take care and stay safe 🙂
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.
Howdy from Adelaide as well! I’ve just started my older max collection with a Mac Pro 3.1, always wanted one.
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 clearly need this pc
i always waiting for new Psivewri video...
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!
Nice video!
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 still use this computer for music production. It’s still great 🔥
This is pretty cool
Wish had a mac pro like this
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.
Why I love mac
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.
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
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
Awesome I wish to had one of those old Macs just to play
great vid
nice coat!
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!
Man I wish I have one of those I love the design
Its really awesome how you got with a box
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.
This was literally my computer from 2010 to 2019. Man I miss it a lot
Nice Video as always :D
I wouldn't mind getting my hands on something like that, I am not the biggest apple fan, but I do love to take a look inside PC's to look what's inside and learn how to put it back together.
Someday I may come across someone who just need it to be gone or have thrown it out.
I rock a G5 PowerMac but I wish I had one of these old Mac Pros laying around
Still more powerful than what I'm using, I'd be willing to fix the gpu
👏👏👏 AWESOME ❤️
3:25 i like your memes😂. some mac pc error or not error
why am i shedding tears while watching this video :')
Socket 1366 systems are great imo, nehalem/westmere still scale well and can yield great performance, even in 2021
I would love one of these macs :)
great video! I have an RX 580 and two x5675
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
Classic machine wish new apples were like this
Watching on my 5,1
it's very good
My favourite tower design of all time!
Man I Like To Have that Kinda Machine🔥🔥
i see you putting that barcode out there lol didnt expect it to bring me to a music license site though
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
Might get one of these to further upgrade my server
hard work
This would be great as a home server with all those drive bays
🤣🤣🤣 I love how you change how you do your videos so often! Keep em coming Psivewri!
The 'bruh' got me cracking laughing
Hi there I hope you’re having a great day love your great videos 😊
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.
The awesome thumbnail brings me here
Very nice
Love these machines. I have one, which i am busy collecting parts to upgrade. Will make some videos on that as soon as that permits.
You can actually put in much new GPU's in these also. Even though the PCI Express bus will bottleneck eventually, you get really good performance. If you fancy/need i could send you over some 16GB DDR3 ECC Ram modules for free for a project upgrade to this, should be good to see what you do with it.
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.
Man I wish I had one of these
This is why apple is one of the best tech manufacture . You buy something and have it for a long time
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
👆👆 HIS 100% LEGIT WHEN IT COMES TO FREE STUFF
I JUST GOT MINE#
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