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hey guys this is Austin and today it is time to upgrade Matt's 2010 Mac Pro yeah okay so Matt has had an unfortunate incident recently and that his dog broke his IMAX screen so took him up we're getting a little bit of a project and see what we can actually upgrade with his original Mac Pro also if you guys don't know Matt he's the one who runs this is and makes fun of me on mystery Tech it's true this is not a stock 2010 Mac Pro right it still works right now but you want to basically see if you can get it a little bit less great I've done some modifications with it these are all USB 2 and they have no way to really change that so then I need USB 3 so I got this card here which has worked really well for me yeah but it needed dedicated power it wouldn't run off the PCIe wait so did you this came with an optical drive right it has two optical bays the door doesn't like to close when turns out it's nothing meant to be right here we've upgraded this several times over the years that you've owned the Mac Pro yes so what are you doing with the Mac Pro once we're done rebuilding it so I do video editing was this didn't you clean this uh there's literally like an inch of dust on your graphics card probably never whoa this was an off road off road yeah so when you travel with this yeah so can you run me through the spec of this guy so this is 2010 is it what a quad core it is a quad core I think 2.6 gigahertz xenon the first thing is we should have prayed the CPU if you're rocking the quad core this goes up to was it like 10 cores it can do 12 cores maximum you've already got the hard drives I think maybe we just swap out this SSD for something that's just a little bit more modern a little bit quicker so we've got a task here so I think the next step is I need to do some googling and find some parts and let's see if we can get this upgraded and back to 2019 specs so it has been about what two weeks now two weeks and we have everything we need for the ultimate Mac Pro Masaru the match pro apologies so the ways of the Mac Pro works is that while you can buy the CPUs you can also buy the entire trait which essentially is the motherboard we could gone to a six core with a little bit better clock speed but the real upgrade is to the dual talking yes so essentially what we have here are a pair of six core processors it might not sound super impressive thank you very much in this sort of modern era where we have you know what 32 cores and thread Ripper but 12 cores was a lot of power especially for 2010 one of the interesting things about this is that the entire upgrade was actually not that expensive so we're able to get the tray which of course is the motherboard as well as the tools to CPUs for a little bit over $500 now this is like a what like a $6,500 config when I first came out yeah and that's not including the memory we got with it and so we also have to get we got 64 gigs as you can see by my giant pile of dents here I mean I guess you do have the limitation that single thread is probably not gonna be super impressive but what we're using it for is primarily like editing I do play the occasional game on it well you'll probably be able to gain oh yeah I love my civilization well so with that we've upgraded from a quad core to a 12 core in this entire setup with the new tray the dual CPUs the 64 gigs of ram still cost us only about $700 yeah which obviously is a fair bit but considering that if you were to bought this in 2010 it would have been at least 10 times that really not a bad upgrade so we went with a rx 580 AMD card um this is pretty much the maximum that the system can handle this is the original connector it's a pair of 6 pin it's correct and you've adapted a six to an eight which already is bad alright let's pull the 760 out so this is actually built in support for a little longer GPU yeah interesting actually have we even measured to see if this Strix card will fit um on paper I mean it hold it looked like you'll be it'll be fine oh we didn't clean this out why is there already a 14 terabyte hard drive in here I got excited locate it so apparently mat stealing company property and installing a 14 terabyte hard drive in his Mac Pro so when we started this project it was running Sierra and so we wanted to go to Mojave because we needed that for the graphic art support but it wouldn't let us upgrade it until we upgraded the firmware of the motherboards but there's a fun little problem with that is the only way to update the firmware is if you have the original EFI graphics cards so we found a guy in town who had one and let us borrow his just to update the firmware you're covered in dust right now no no did you clean your dirty computer I thought that's what you were doing no I'm upgrading it with like 12 cores and stuff I'm not cleaning do I look like a cleaning service full service man so with that we have our 12 core CPU 64 gigs of ram and our RX 580 next let's upgrade dress is deep so with that you've got a 1 terabyte SSD I think it's time to see if this thing actually works Matt what you have to do the honors yeah I hope you take off my powered by EVGA that's fine it's not it's powered by ev8 Oh a little RGB going here yeah hey it works there you go alright go up to about this Mac we see there you go to 3 gigahertz 6 core Intel Xeon say 64 gigs ok cool so all of our 8 gig dims are showing up so for reference we're going from a quad-core xeon all the way up to a pair of 6 core cpus and we're going from 8 gigs to 64 gigs of ram now Geekbench i think should show a fairly substantial difference especially in the multi-core 27:34 20,000 on the multi-core so single core obviously is now that impressive of me it's essentially a ten-year-old processor but 20,000 on the multi-core for a 2010 system that's ridiculous so for reference before the upgrades the single core was 2175 and the multi-core was 7600 wow that is a huge difference next up we have set a bench now not only will this test the CPU but I'm also curious to see how much higher the GPU score is so especially consider that this started out with a 5770 I mean a 580 is going to be then five six times faster eight times the memory and it's a massive massive difference so we're going from 43 to 59 that's not that good oh dude look at that I never get tired of seeing like a million thread spin up for Cinebench so you know what's crazy with this it's not actually that expensive when you consider right so what do you think would have cost to first of all like buy like your original Mac Pro chassis and just do like the the tray upgrade with the memory instead I mean I've seen I've seen like the original chassis x' go anywhere from 250 to about 450 the six core CPUs you can get for like 180 which is bananas how cheap that is and then the the five ATS I've seen for 175 so R and news realistically all the upgrades we've done to this system are about a thousand dollars maybe a little bit more considering that we have the ones like okay the 14 terabyte drive is like that's overkill where you know that part of it to really put this to the test we have our resident editing man Jimmy champagne it's me Jimmy I'm here so we are editing off of an external SSD so we're using this little Samsung t5 which is plugged into Matt's a USB C card so that's pretty standard yeah which is what we edit all of our videos on but it seems to be fine so now we're gonna try and sink the footage see how quick that goes that went as quick as it does on the iMac pro will do better quality if this is unrendered 4k Pro right here is this a woman background render is a little slower than the iMac pro boy so basically you have a tank or iMac yeah which is obviously faster but when you compare this to something like a MacBook or an iMac this is still more powerful I'd say it also to be faster than the MacBook but noticeably slower than the high Mac Pro so it's fine somewhere in between which is pretty funny for a nine year old desktop which we just Frankenstein together yeah with like less than thousand dollars worth of parts so that my friends is building the ultimate match Pro for something that's this old the amount of power able to get especially concerning the price is super super impressive so if you excuse me I'm going to go buy a lot more of these and have some fun that actually sounds really ominous like as if I'm gonna build like some super computer out of Mac perrault's I'm actually not gonna buy any more of these