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Honestly, getting a full set for $70 is a real steal! Nice find!

i would have never guessed this thing came out 16 years ago, it looks so ahead of it's time

That was probably actually rubber reversion and not melted adhesive - something that’s extremely common with vintage tech.

That graphics card looks like it’s come straight out of Russia, if you look on Ali-express you can find very similar ones for sale shipping solely out of Russia. Brilliant deal on that entire setup 👍

My dad found the case for one of these a couple years back, completely empty though unfortunately. Overall a very solid case with a great design and I would say it's better than 98% of cases today. The monitor on the other had (which was also found, however separate from the Mac Pro) is astonishing. I'm using it as my only monitor for my PC and I couldn't be happier. Great design, solid build quality, great "life-life" image quality and handy touch-sensitive brightness buttons on the side. The only Apple product I've personally owned (apart from the monitor) is my trusty iPad mini 2 and my mums old iPhone 4. I'm really getting into these old apple products recently, steve jobs did wonders!

I tinkered with this machine so much back in the day. With the dual quad core's and flashed to a cMP 2,1, it had a lot of horsepower. It finally met it's demise, when I somehow accidentally bent some of the cpu socket pins and I moved on to the cMP 3,1. It was a great machine to learn on about hardware upgrading and boot efi's.

Great video. Glad to see that you didn't skip over the OS troubleshooting. I find it more interesting that way.

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When you pull the stack of rams, I'm shocked. Those rams look more menacing than the graphic card

I can't recall what it gets you but you can easily flash a 1,1 MacPro to a 2,1. Also these can have the CPUs swapped out for something faster and the RAM can be maxed all the way to 32 GB fairly cheaply. I keep one of these as a "garage" computer at my electronics workbench and it is still shockingly good.

I can't believe that someone sold this Mac with a studio monitor for just $70 !! (less than 50 Euros) The machine is VERY upgradable for little money, despite being an older model. Even with Linux instead of Mac OS it can be a respectable daily driver.

Great video and awesome work! I have the same Mac Pro with the Radeon HD 5770 GPU and El Capitan patch as well as 32GB Ram and the X2 Quad Core Xeon’s, beast of a machine but a bit outdated.

Love the look on the old icons and styles of Mac OS X. Just looks so much better than the modern ones.

As a 4,1 -> 5,1 user, I sure do like to see cMPs getting their life back. Not a bad find considering it came with the ACD and decent GPU to accompany it. If you stumble across a 3,1 cMP, i recommend OpenCore Legacy Patcher, OCLP. If you get a 4,1 then i recommend flashing to 5,1 and then going with Martin Lo’s OpenCore package.

Its like christmas morning when you upload! keep up the great work :D

Bought a 50€ 4,1 earlier this year, stuck two cheapo SSD inside, flashed it to 5,1 and installed Monterey with Open Core on one SSD and Win11 on the other. Worth it.

This was such a great machine. Bought mine as a refurb from the Apple store in 2007 and used it as my daily driver for a full decade. Mine is retired now (it uses way too much power) but I still fire it up and play with it occasionally. You can use an NVMe SSD in it (700MB/s) but only for storage, not booting. A GT710 will work with the appropriate web driver if you want a fanless video option.

Loved the video. Those old mac pros are soo beautiful :D and surprisingly useful today

My school's electronics recycling dock regularly throws out a lot of hardware, I salvaged enough to build a hackintosh running Monterey and a 27 inch Apple Cinema Display hooked up to it, which is a 1440p panel with awesome speakers (actually better than the new bose soundbox I was using), webcam, microphone, all the bells and whistles. Still pretty bright, but had to use Lunar to configure the brightness otherwise it'd break. In general though, that hackintosh is an amazing machine running an i7 7700, 2x 8gb ddr4 2133, rx 470 sapphire nitro+, a gigabyte ultra durable whatever board, and a mediocre psu. Couldn't be happier, since nearly all of it was for free.

You are very comfortable around computer systems. That’s an impressive skill to have. Great job!

These old Mac Pros are such incredible value. I'm using my '08 right now for my main Ableton rig and it's never once stuttered or made me considering upgrading.

Great video. currently looking around on marketplace lol. Love the runescape music at the end too

Good to hear that you managed to solve the issues that this Mac Pro had - and you got El Capitan on it! I'd recommend El Capitan as it's the latest version of the OS you can install, and this also seems to be the cut off in terms of software: most programs won't install on Yosemite or earlier.

This is my favorite KZfaq channel! Great video! Thanks! 👍

Sweet find! I found something similar: A Power Mac G4 dual 500 MHz for $5. Works perfectly, just missing the optical/zip caddy/faceplate, the hard drive, and one of the 3 hard drive sleds. It also didn't include anything else, but it's in otherwise amazing shape. The PSU didn't have a single bulging cap, either, and the G4 power supplies are known to fail. Talk about luck. It's rather ironic that what was once Apple's top-tier professional computer offering for $3499 could be found for a total of $9 including the bus I took to pick it up. These are going for as high as nearly 10% of their original price on eBay. It's amazing what you can find on Facebook Marketplace.

Your channel is the most nostalgic and the best one ever I'm a subscriber since 2015.

Hope an eucalyptus oil company sponsors you

Psivewri favorite late night snack is Dust Helper.😛

Facebook Marketplace has all kinds of stuff I could really find.

I own the same MacPro with 2 Quad Cores and now 22GB of DDR2. And some 2010 ATI HD Card. CSGO and the new Versions of Minecraft work great in wqhd an Deven with shaders. You should try thedosdudes tutorial to put Catalina on this bad boy

another great video and review.. thank you!

That foam solution for the SSD mount is pretty slick. I'll have to remember that trick just in case

Great video mate!

I totally enjoyed watching this video! Love the old Macs!

6:34 Noticed the card has a 6/8 pin PCI-E power connector, that may cause issues if it's not connected (the card wont be able to pull enough power, as PCI-E slots can only deliver 75w) EDIT: nvm at 9:34 I saw it connected

Damn that's a great deal with the monitor included

Alright, I have just upgraded one to dual 5355s and HD5770 + 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD and 120GB SSD. Great machine! I gave it to my aunt, she uses it as her everyday machine. She really likes it! Btw, this is the computer I have as my PFP

nathan! i love your videos so much!

facebook marketplace, understandable for the dust and stuff

If someone bought an Apple Cinema Display 18 years ago and kept using it they would brag all day about how long it lasted and I can’t complain

Thanks for the info for patching Mac's to install new mac os versions I enjoyed watching you as usual :-)

This is it boys, he's gone full Chad mode with the cut. I like it, keep on making this good content!

Amazing great man never forgot ❤

I got one 1st gen gifted and I maxed it out with 4core cpu's, full ram, El Capitan and a GTX 660. Unfortunately it was behaving funny at times and it looks like one ram tray was the culprit. So now I am using only 1 tray and it runs fine. It was as dirty as yours and I gave it a proper clean. Chrome won't run out of some reason. I really liked your video... great stuff!

Right before I go to bed, you upload 😂 now I'm up later. 😂😂😂

have not seen a psievwri video on my mentions for months! Love the Rolex Sub BTW!

I think you could install something newer than El Capitan! That EFI file is really a nice patch! It's fairly possible that stuff such as the sound card is not supported in El Capitan. You could definitely look for patches online!

Welcome back mate! you should buy one of the dirt cheap parts poly carbonate macbooks of Ebay, you can get two for 14 Pounds

I had a G5 one of these, same case design, got it used many years ago, 2009 I think. Used it up until I got the late 2012 iMac. Good computer but yes they are big, Mine was under the desk so I made a skate to put it on so I could more easily move it to clean around any try and minimise the dust.

wow glad i found your channel. u r brilliant sir ty sir

Why hack the EFI file to support another unsupported OS? Can't you put Catalina on it? lol but then Catalina will be out of support in a year. Why not try Linux instead.

The ultimate futureproof PC.

6:24 That's pretty satisfying glitch! 🤣

btw, I can confirm that with some sketchy patch tools, and modded EFI, you may boot up to Catalina

Awesome find scavenger!

Of the Mac Pro’s the 3,1 is the one I used most and still use from time to time. Getting it running Mojave and adding an SSE4.2 emulation layer allowing the function of the Metal API and use of Polaris and Vega cards from Radeon makes it rather silly. But it was certainly fun. There are 3D printed drive sleds available for the various older macs and I’ve seen some files on thingiverse for them. The 4,1 and 5,1 are certainly better than the 3,1. And substantially better than the 1,1 or 2,1. The 1,1 and 2,1 were all SATA2 and PCIe1.0 slots, and only firewire400 The 3,1 had SATA2 and 2 x PCIe2.0 and 2 x PCIe1.0 slots and both FireWire 400 and 800. The 4,1 and 5,1 were SATA3 with all PCIe2.0 slots and only FireWire800. I think the 3,1 has been the most versatile for me over the last decade I’ve had it just with connectivity and being able to troubleshoot wide arrays of other macs from it both older and newer. My best deal getting them was clearing a closed technical school that was going to throw a ton of the old cheese graters out as e-waste. So I got 20 of them for free. A mix of all those behemoths 1,1-5,1.

Haha, that dust is nothing compared to a computer at work that reception used for nearly nine years. By the time it was decommissioned, it was so caked full of dust that it had pretty much no airflow & I couldn't even see the CPU. I had the honorable job of removing the hard drive out of the machine and, since the dust was so dense, I didn't want to dirty my clothes, so I ended up wearing a mask, a disposable apron and gloves to get the hard drive out. What would usually take me a couple of minutes ended up taking me at least 15 minutes, most of which was me laughing at myself for needing to wear so much PPE to take the hard drive out. It reminded me of the days when I worked at a meat processing plant and needed to wear more or less the same type of PPE, all because I didn't want to dirty my clean clothes. Anyway, good find with the Mac Pro and I'm sure you will give it a good home.

I have a first gen Mac pro I found a couple years ago at the Goodwill. I wanted a currently supported OS, so I put Windows on it. I couldn't install Windows 10 directly, however I was able to install Windows 7 (and there are tutorials you can follow to create a modified install disc to be able to install the 64 bit version), which can then be upgraded from there directly to Windows 10. It's probably not going to run any modern heavy duty games, but for regular web browsing, videos, older/light games, it works pretty well (definitely way better than my Mac mini from around the same timeframe, which struggles even to play KZfaq videos).

Your the best and I can't stop watching these videos

Must be very satisfying being able to fettle the old computer back to life. Thanks for an interesting video.

not watched full video yet (watching now) but wondering if you did the 1,1 > 2,1 bios conversion? works wonders

Great video mate. Any hacks you know of to hang an SSD in a MacPro 4,1 with the drive enclosure? I don't have a 2.5 - 3.5 HD convertor, as I don't have to pennies to rub together. Getting the SSD to align with the SATA ports is the real problem. Any ideas?

When I worked for an apple resale/ repair shop, and one of my last repairs was a board swap on one of these.

That’s the way we like it.... cleaning, troubleshooting, and a happy ending for this awesome old machines!

I love em mac pros. Got one for under 10 eu. Love it

I got an old laptop with so many problems from facebook. But i didnt give up and fixed it and its actually quite nice

Realy your videos are so impressive, i like your way and I enjoy when I watch your videos,

Thank you so much 😊

You would do great in commercials as you really represented MANSCAPED 😀

i got a mac pro from the recycling center, early 2009 and working perfectly. absolute mint condition too. however it was the dustiest pc i’ve ever come across.

Great Video!

I recently picked up a 2009 dual cpu macbook pro with 32 gb ram with 2 graphics cards for $150. Put a samsung 500 ssd in the optical drive and it works really well. Plus I found a 30 inch apple cinema for $100 and this complements the mac pro. Did also buy a 27 inch thunderbolt display for $20 but it does not work with the mac pro.

Good find 👍and the feet aren’t broken like so many of them.

BOY I thought the Mac Pro 5,1 was a PITA, I commend you for going the distance to get a "modern" OS working on this (beautiful) relic of the mid 2000's

The Design is Timeless

would love a list of specs in the description(?) great video!

I'm running one of these badboys with 2,1 firmware flashed and 32gb of ram, as well as dual quad core cpus, with truenas and multiple 2tb hdds and an ssd for booting. I have used it for music production before on Windows 10 Pro (after lots of faff and using the Windows 7 boot camp installer) actually pretty decent for win10 if u have a more recent gpu

Thank you for that Video.

is that your own music? sounds great!

this is an epic find

The case is cool. I'd love to see if / how one could be modded to put a modern computer within it.

Wow that was alot of work on that monster, wondering if you can do a video on power up a 21.5 imac that does power up and what to do to fix it. And step and what is the cause 👋🙂🙏

LOL I SAW THE AD!

This was literally a steal for $70! Amazing!

Can you rescue more Windows computers? Please do so if you can. I want you to salvage as many Windows computers as you possibly can.

Hey bro so what if i just get mac os el capitan installed into a macbook pro and then switch it over to my mac pro 1st gen will it work?

Went to the "tip shop" at Wellington's landfill the other month to find 15 of these sitting on a shelf for $20 to $30NZ each. Was so tempted but my Dell Workstation/Nehalem addiction suffices......

Cool video, very tempted on buying one of these on FB market place. Also cool tube lights! What’s the name of these?

They sell only the screen fpr 70 bucks in germany without a power supply. Nice Deal und Nice Video as always

Holy crap what a deal

I found a 5.1 /perfect shape with box/ and a 30" Cinema Display in the same condition. Paid around 370 with shipping. Since then I dont even use my 27" iMac anymore.

I’ve had a few if the intel ones pass through my hands. Just way to big but fun to mess about with

Gotta love the smooth shaved balls. 😂 Nice find, where I live the 2 x ssds would have already payed for the AU$70, if it's 240+/- GB.

Awesome deal

Does anyone else get Psivewri and MattKC mixed up 😂 love both of y’all’s channels

What were the temps after dust cleaning? I have to know! 😂

Could you please help me? I got a free iMac A1311 and it has an unsupported version of macOS X on it. I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't want to open it either, and I'm not sure what the os version is either. It plays the boot chime but says the os is not supported pls help

my first ever gpu upgrade was an NVIDIA Quadro FX1800

First gen mac pro always catch my interest!