Gadgetory

hay has gone Dave TT here so apples supposed to release their new Mac Pro in 2019 we don't know that much about it we know that supposing a modular system we know that's gonna be a powerful system for professionals and we know that it's gonna be crazy expensive that's just how professional Mac equipment is and it's supposed to come out later this year we don't know exactly when it hopefully will come in 2019 maybe we get pushback but I wanted one sooner than later I've been someone who's been itching for a modular Mac Pro for years so the point where we've been running a lot of hackintosh is if you look at some of my older videos I have them running in the back and this is the best-looking and most powerful custom Mac that I've ever built it's not a gaming rig it was designed specifically to edit my YouTube videos if I wanted to play games on this I would have made like half dozen different choices than what I've built and this primarily wouldn't been running Mac OS but this is running Mac OS and it is the most Apple like case I've ever found on the market so this case is called the circle Pro by a company called circle studio and because it's water-cooled you can push your components a little bit harder particularly the CPU which is really important for what I do I'm able to hit 5 gigahertz on an 8 core CPU it's the I 999 hundred K and the performance on this is better than the 8 and 10 core Xeon processors in those iMac pros which are like double or even triple the price of this only their top-of-the-line 14 core model is actually significantly faster than this machine so I'm gonna talk about the case a little bit it's not the smallest one out there if you guys follow me you know I like really small ITX cases this is 11 liters not like 5 6 liters or 7 litres like I've seen some tiny builds but it's really well built and it just looks so good it looks so Mac like the panels are all CNC machined and the machining on this is very high quality there's no rough edges all the panels come apart top bottom front back they all separate nicely when you unscrew it and then they somehow fit really snugly together in this precision fit it's honestly like Apple built a custom ITX case and the space great finish on it is just ripe the side panels they're glass but they're really heavily smoked so if you think about it if Apple made glass panels for a case they wouldn't make it lightly tinted they would do a pretty heavy smoke like this and on this case you can look at the internals if you want but it's subtle it feels like Apple made it but it's got this custom built vibe to it so this is the case I went with the circle Pro and there's a lot of stuff I like about it but there's some pretty big disadvantages the big one is that you have to use a short GPU in it you can put in a full length I tried both to the Vegas 64 and several r-tx GPUs but you need to use a server power supply so forget that and another thing I don't like about it is that it's actually very difficult to build and I've built in a lot of tiny cases before this is one of the hardest if not the most difficult case that I've worked in and the primary reason for that is just space when you run an all-in-one water cooler in a system this small it becomes very cramped okay quick word on the hardware I'm running some old hardware and some new hardware the big focus on this system was just reliability it had to be extremely reliable I can't let it go down like Mac OS on non-traditional Apple hardware can get a little dicey sometimes so this thing is running an I 999 hundred K with the thermal take water cooler and I would have loved to have run a different water cooling here because I don't think the thermal takes got the best performance but this thing has a very tight fit there's very few water cools I could have in here the NZXT Krakens do not it's also running two sticks of ddr4 ram from g.skill they actually came from a gaming rig so they light up in our jeebies and stuff I wish I had better control of those RG B's on the system but I can't complain it's super fast memory and it's very reliable that's also running two sticks of Samsung and VMI's inside there and I'm also running a 450 watt power supply from Corsair it's their small form factor one they make a 600 watt one but 450 kind of does the trick now on the other side you have access to of the GPU so this GPU is a Radeon rx 580 from AMD I went with the AMD cards just for reliability I would have loved to have stick an Nvidia card in here now this card actually came from an external GPU it's the gigabyte gaming box it's running an rx 580 inside there and I had to use that thing in here because that was one of very few AMD cards that could fit in a small form-factor case and all these components are running on an asus motherboard it's the asus z 390 the ITX like ROG Strix Edition yeah those are basically other components now oh the reason why I went with that motherboard was for audio so most motherboards that are running ninth Gen Intel CPUs don't have onboard audio that works in Mac OS at least not easily but this motherboard does that's why I went with it now there are things that don't work so I don't get Wi-Fi I don't get bluetooth neither those work and I thought I wouldn't miss them but the thing is you need those for airdrop and well in this system airdrop does not work iMessage works everything else kind of works it's just airdrop is something that I use pretty regularly and I enjoy that I cannot get running on this system the performance is great CPU and GPU performance is excellent for what I do it's not too loud I'm running the stock fans on the thermal take water cooler hits like 46 48 decibels on Macs load on Idol it's like 30 decibels it's pretty quiet but not as quiet as like a real Mac system like of Apple built a real Mac Pro it would be a lot quieter than this but I want to switch up the fans I want to run some NOK to our Redux fans and those would lower the fan noise a little bit temperatures are good it's water-cooled CPU and the GPU doesn't get pushed too hard for what I do so this rig is running on a dual monitor setup these are the LG 32 UL 950 panels they're 4k and they look really clean they're actually one of the very few monitors that have used that had perfect calibration coming out of the box like I ran my spider on it and literally didn't have to change a thing they were perfectly calibrated both of them okay to wrap it up the keyboard I'm using is the master op control keyboard it's a wired keyboard I've talked about it in a previous video if you want to check it out I'll link it below and the mouse I'm using is the Logitech vertical mouse so this is a mouse that looks bizarre and you might think it has like special functionality or something it doesn't it actually feels like a very normal Mouse once you get used to it but the main reason why I'm using it is because of the USBC connection it's one of very few x' wireless mice that has a USB C to charge it I have to use the dongle because it doesn't have bluetooth I have to use the wireless radio dongle on the back to make this thing connect to it but I do have a wireless mouse at least and that basically wraps it up this is my custom Mac Pro and I spent way too long building this thing like it was a struggle but hope you guys enjoyed this video because this is where my favorite builds I've ever done okay thumbs have you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time