Forgot to add... this thing is legit HEAVY AS, like hernia producing heavy, so be careful if you do ever come into one not to just try hulk it off the ground quickly.

You need to boot into MacOS and upgrade to 10.14. That kicks off an EFI upgrade that enables NVME boot and kicks the PCIe slots back to 2.0 (they’re 1.0 for non recognized GPUs otherwise).

I managed to pick up a Mac Pro like this locally for $100. However it was missing a side panel, which are easy enough to get. But the seller felt bad, so to make it up to me, he tossed in an Apple keyboard, mouse and monitor for the $100 price. You can't complain about that!

I’ve owned a lot of these, recommend upgrading to x5680s or x5690s. For cheap gpus, 7950/7970/280 can be easily flashed for boot screens, rx570/580. Can run opencore easy and run latest MacOS, dual boot into windows 10. I ran a vega vii in mine and played games at 1440p in windows . You left a lot of performance on the table but it’s okay you don’t know the system, I’d recommend keeping it a little while and learning about it.

8:00 It will actually make it to the OS, you just won't get boot picker screen or a boot screen at all. If you already have an OS installed, you can boot into it just fine with a non-mac GPU. It's preferred to have a mac flashed card, though.

One of the best machines Apple ever produced, I still use my 2009 Mac Pro as a main machine, upgraded to 12 Cores @ 3GHz with 64GB RAM, 1TB PCI SSD as a startup drive, 32TB on HDD Storage (2x8Tb and 1x16TB with one slot still free) and an RX580 that drives my 30" Apple Cinema Display like a charm... You can use OpenCore Patcher to upgrade the OS to the latest version of Monterey and everything works perfect. That's why these machines are still very valuable.

Feels like the Tech Yes Man really lives up to the motto "it's downside up" - cause he can turn almost anything from a downside to an upside

Takes me back to 2008 when I was on the Microsoft campus in Sandton, Johannesburg and pretty much all employees had Macbooks with Vista running - since it was the first version of Windows to run UEFI BIOS.

I spent some time in 2020 gaming with a 2006 1,1 Mac Pro, with 8gb of RAM, SATA SSD and a GTX 285. Weirdest thing was that this specific Mac ran Windows 10 better than any other patched MacOS versions later than the last officially supported 10.7 Lion. I still see some groups related to Mac Pros and people still use them with current powerful GPUs, like the 5700XT, Vegas and the Radeon VII. Some still use NVidia cards, but they lost support after MacOS 10.13 High Sierra. These Macs have a weird power delivery circuit to the GPUs, requiring 2 proprietary 6-pin cables that go through the main motherboard. If they suck too much power, above 225W IIRC, the Mac shuts down. Users mod the power supply to add cables straight to the GPU.

yeah Australia got some weird shit, where every usless mac keeps it high price.

Bryan, loved the video as always! I have the same Mac Pro. I’m running 2 Xeon 12c/24t at 3.33ghz, 96 gb ecc ram, 15tb storage, add in PCI NVME card 1tb NVME SSD, pci USB type c card and a RX 580 8gb OC graphics card. Even in Mac OS I play games just fine via steam. Mac OS doesn’t need anything but an AMD to boot via metal. Don’t even need the Mac flash in the card. Just thought I’d share. I’ve used a lot of your videos and built many X58 systems with your recommendations. Thank you!!

Love how you solve everything and tell us how! Wouldn’t expect anything less from the YES man

The 5770s are perfectly fine for eSports they just have a Mac BIOS on them which makes them run like shit in windows

5770's should run Heaven fine..... 2009 software / 2009 GPU - they were the go to GPU for MAC's and probably still are..... I remember buying a few for peanuts and selling them on as MAC cards for triple the price.... some would work on Apples like the Sapphire ones ;)

The case is awesome. Always loved the way it looks. It's a great piece of design considering its age.

Best mac ever built! So expandable, upgradable. I remember trying to put in extra HDs into older Macs. You almost needed 3 hands

I had the 2008 3,1 dual quadcore xeon with 32ggb ddr2, ran it with a vega 64 in both windows 10 and the latest MacOS version. These days it's just running with an RX570 on Catalina or Big Sur. those mac edition ATI cards had driver issues sometimes in windows. When repurposing old Mac Pros go Radeon. there is a workaround to run GTX cards alone in windows so you don't lose access to the other slot. cause those are prime PCIe SSD slots.

I've been running Windows 10 on a Mac Pro 5.1 from late 2009 using a 1050 TI for a GPU for several years now to great success. I can play plenty of modern games on high settings. I also installed Windows natively, not via Bootcamp, which actually I slightly regret because it makes it wonky when it comes to Bluetooth among a couple of other minor things but for gaming it's been excellent.

You got the dual socket one too. Just the cpu tray for dual cpu go for $600 usd. You got a really good deal

the 2012 mac pro is pretty much exactly the same as the 2010, which hardware is exactly the same as a 2009, just with different firmware. The main drawback of these machines is SATA II imo

Hi! Long time watcher, first time commenting on something I actually owned for over 2 years! I blight my Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to a 5,1 bios for 600 dollars at the time. (The only difference with the two models are the delided cpu’s) and I managed to max spec it up, with the highest xeons and 128 gigs of ram (but I think the system runs faster on 96 in triple channel). I do miss it, like a lot. I was that tinker guy who ran macOS (via opencore! This fixed the boot menu on graphics cards) and windows via parallel at the same time! I felt more productive in macOS and left the gaming to windows. I did a lot of video editing, photography, and high intensity application work. I sold it though :(. You mod and load custom firmware to a point where it’s just a hackintosh. I was lacking pcie 3.0, my graphics card wasn’t getting its full speed, no sata 3, no usb 3, and under a load this mofo was a space heater, and a lot of applications are shying away from dual CPU’s and more times they cause more issues. I managed to sell it for 1300 CAD with all my upgrades and I did turn a profit but man I spent days tinkering with the system.

Managed to buy a Mac Pro for £130 and he included two untested thunderbolt displays 27”. The both work fine

For XTU, you have to download an older version, my system worked very well with older releases but the latest one gives the same “unsupported platform” prompt.

Also worth a re-visit after you've installed OpenCore, you might get rid of the ATI card afterwards....

An old Radeon card doing it's best and holding up a good GeForce card. And people say AMD fine wine is a lie? "She's dead captain!" "Yar, but she still be pullin' her weight."

The inflation numbers came in for the US this week. 7% highest inflation in 40 years. The problem is, inflation doesn’t typically run backwards. They consider “negative inflation” a worse economic problem than high inflation. Therefore prices aren’t going back to pre-pandemic levels.

I got a a quad core mac pro 4,1 2009 for free ..upgraded to a 5690 6 core/rx570 card and nvme and it was quite the machine.. effortless power,cool as a cucumber and fast as well as h264/hevc decoding/encoding ... I always had an eye out for a dual tray and finally got one for 125.00 us dollars...it has the 2 x5690's and 64gb ddr3 1333mhz ram... Finally, ive got one of these that I had fantasized about for quite a while.. running sonoma and 4 other mac os systems And win 11 on a single nvme... I cant see how most people wouldnt be pleased with how smooth and effortlessly fast these beasts are even in 2023..sure there are Faster rigs but this is still a Fast machine and handles everything without the slightest hint of strain.

I have one, and love it :) 2012, dual X5690s, 64GB, multiple SSDs, RX580, runs Mojave, Ubuntu, Windows10, and ESX. Opencore for boot graphics and drive selection, etc.

Everyone is unloading these now. I got one for $150. had 80GB ddr3, 2 x5680's , 500GB ssd, and USB3.0. I added my Vega Frontier. This thing is awesome. I will sell my MP 3.1. That was near maxed out. Included all keyboard, mouse, and 24inch Cinema Display. Freaking deal!

It’s fun seeing a Mac noob trying one out for the first time. Buddy you don’t need that 5770 in there just to boot to windows 10. I’m running a 5,1 with a non standard gpu and it’s just a black screen until I hit windows desktop.

I got two Mac G5 cases that have been waiting for pc conversions for years. Life got in the way.

The Mac Pro 5,1 is probably the best computer Apple ever built, at least since the SE/30 waaay back in the day (those things were so upgradeable). My secondary gaming system is a Mac Pro 5,1, and I've been experimenting - currently running a ViewSonic 17" CRT and an Asus Matrix HD 5870 2GB. I tinkered with Macs before PCs, and had only worked in that ecosystem for years - my first real computer was a mid-1990s PPC tower (prior it was Commodore, bit of a gap). I have used this computer as a daily driver with an RX 580 both in Mac OS and Linux - the latter can really add some finesse if you aren't willing to deal with OpenCore installations of unsupported operating systems. But, the old slur is true - Macs don't game well. When Apple ditched modularity in their systems, it was the end of my love affair. With my retrogaming setup, it's surprising - though I don't run the most AAA titles - more cRPGs and the like. Currently I'm hanging at 8.1 because it was an easier install with the Mac Boot Camp - which I only used for the driver support. It doubles the frame rate of Mac OS, which itself performed better than Elementary or Pop OS. Linux would not run silent on this machine - I've tried a bunch of distros, a number of GitHub projects... The card is finicky with cooling at least - it provides a boot screen, drive selector options - and, no, it's not flashed. These still sell for a lot for a reason. This is the greatest computer that Apple ever built in my opinion. I'm not alone.

wow thats shocking, the performance is amazing for only 100$ my old PC from 2014 ran apex only 40 fps on all minimum and my brother sold it in 2019 for 200$ or 300$ I don't remember

I love the way these look and how the insides look so sleek.

Ive upgraded to an M2 Macbook Pro, but i still use my 2011 MacPro 5,1 with 64GB , RX580 8b and 2x 5690 and its pretty good... Current A titles run pretty well in mid settings. Currently playing Psychonauts 2 in 1440p Highest settings and its sweet.

Extremely good deal. I have been looking for years and could never find one under $500. Best I could find was two 2009 single cpu mac pro computers for $200 and another with a damaged handle for $50. The seller did throw in an apple monitor and 3 apple keyboards.

Be careful pulling the cpu tray in and out of the back plane socket. I made that mistake once and bent pins in the backplane. It was a costly mistake

You are a wealth of information, thank u for making videos for us.

You probably have to update the Firmware of the Mac. That is why it wont boot with newer GPUs. Mine works flawlessy with RTX20 series GPUs under Windows, withouth the original Mac EFI Bios GPU installed (you just lose the Boot screen).

I plugged a msi gtx 1060 3gb oc without having to use the original 5770 in it, and it worked just fine no issues, not hacks, and it's a 6pin so it plugged right in with no rewiring. I have successfully updated all drivers and as of today's date whenever if ever someone reads this comment I am running the newest windows 10 updates! Only issue I ran into is the generic TV monitor I hooked up. I thought I was having an audio driver issue. Oddly enough 😅 if you let the pc start for a few min then turn on the monitor it is able to configure it so the speakers work! 🎉 For those of you who are worried about a 1060s performance msi afterburner is definitely a good asset and when I had it paired with an i7 8700k it up until 1 week ago was still able to play the newest video games in 1080p, granted not at high settings all the time. But they were definitely 60fps playable. Although in order to install windows 10 I had to use the 5770 until it was done installing completely but after that it was free reign

Got a Mac pro 3,1 8-core about two years ago for 50 USD. Some guy had about ten that he'd used as servers and was just getting rid of them - I regret not buying them all and flipping them. Anyway, I put a GTX 960 in it and it works great for older games. Despite the aging socket 771 Xeons I played through the 2016 doom no problems thanks to the Vulcan api. Also have it set up with boot camp so I can switch to mac os if I ever need to without having to grab the original graphics card.

Wish there was a current production Mac Pro cheese grater style atx style case around for modern consumer hardware builds

I've owned a 2009 4,1 -> 5,1 for about 5 months now and as far as gaming goes, I've managed to enjoy AAA titles running them off Steam on Garuda Linux. Frankly, performance and user experience have been fantastic. I will admit there are situations where you have to get crafty to run the title but outside of that, ill be hard pressed k to W10. Great machine. Running X5890 64GB of Ram GTX1070 .

I was getting 2007 Mac to run, I grabbed an usb start disk and I grabbed Windows 10. I did not know it tell half way to set the disk!

The BMX bikes in Stranger Things were off by a few years, which shook the immersion pretty quick. Knee saver bars and Odyssey Gyros weren't invented for another 4 and 2 years respectively after what you saw in Stranger Things.

i have some of theese old mac pro 5.1 laying around in my workshop i should probably do something with them too i think u can even throw in x5675 cpu´s in there

OpenCore bootloader FTW... P.S.: I just built a dual x5680 48g rx580 5.1 with bootscreen, overclock via setFSB and win11 with 0 problems and I'm having so much fun with it as I never had before...

the mac pro is by far my favourite computers ever made

A friend of mine has s quad core model, you can use Gpus that aren’t supported by bios you just loose the boot screen. At least that’s true for Mac OS. I upgraded it to a Polaris GPU.

My 5,1 rocks 2022 RX6800XT, MONTEREY 12.6.1 WINDOWS 10 for gaming. Long live 5,1.

They're selling two of these for 240€ a piece at our local recycling market/center thingie.

I gamed on an 8 core MacPro 3,1 for years. For the time it was screaming hardware. When the 8800GT died I upgraded to a 5870. Worked great until I tried playing Carmageddon Reincarnation and it was a slideshow. Build a Hackintosh PC to replace it. Gave it to my kid to use for a gaming computer. Eventually upgraded the GPU to a GTX 950 using hackintosh nvidia drivers. I did not need a mac GPU installed to get it to boot unless I wanted to work with the EFI boot menu, That still required me to swap for a Mac GPU on a rare occasion. I now use it as a legacy media transfer machine because it has both Firewire 400 and 800 ports on it for old camcorder tape transfer. It's been a trooper!

I have the 2009 single tray model with 5.1 firmware xeon x3680, 12gb DDR3 triple channel, rx570 4gb ddr5, 240gb SSD, mac os Mojave. Going to install big Sur soon

I'd like to note that the reason you may not have been able to overclock is that if this used the tylersburg 5500/5520 instead of the tylersberg x58 chipset i've never gotten XTU to work. It may have just been the BIOSes of those boards, but i've always gotten the error "unable to install on unsupported platform'

The cases are so beautiful! What other case that old is such a looker?

I just bought that same case ( internal parts) at goodwill for $14. I am definitely making my sleeper PC now

I have a 2010 Mac Pro 5.1. Mac OS on nvme card. 2 2tb enterprise hd’s 7600 rpm. 2 300gb enterprise hd’s 10000 rpm. 32gb ram, x3690 3.46ghz cpu and rx580 8gb gpu. It runs great still and does everything I need from it. It can play games in high or very high settings on 1080p which is what my monitor is. I also have a modified Mac mini g4 and g3 600 mhz iBook! Hahah oh, it also has boot screen. Gpu has been flashed.

omg i love x58! i still have my asus px58d-e with a triple channel patriot kit....so awesome long live the x5675

It will boot with custom GPU once you installed the os, just you need to wait for a long time

Those pc accept gtx 980ti and mostly work. Otherwise if you get a rx580 you can install MacOS Mojave easy. Macvidcards sells modded bios Radeon cards that give you the boot screen so you can load windows d bootcamp

Oh fuck yeah bud. Wanted some Tech Yes ingenuity with the Macs.

I bought one for $100 bucks like 5 years ago - sold it stripped and was an empty shell for $200

I've been wanting to see you mess with the Mac pro dual x58 for a while. Good video!

I just found an imac G4 that someone thrashed, kinda looks like a sunflower 🌻, needs a techYES cleaning, and hope it works

Calling the person to give more money, is honorable but I feel it’s really not necessary. You got a great deal, and it’s not your fault. 👍

Still probably run better than mine

Had a 5,1 Mac Pro and I installed an RX580 and it ran games like a champ.

i have macpro 5.1 from 2010 , 2 x intel x5680, rx580 nitro, windows 10, perfect gaming macine.. i love it more than normal gaming pc, looks better, no stupid cables inside, very good cooling, ....it cost me about 500 euro

i didnt get a discount using ur code but those scd keys r legit. I was skeptical at first but yeah pretty bad ass

I wish I would get one for that price. The best I ever found was a Mac Pro 3,1 from 2008 for 100 bucks.

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getting janky setups to work is so satisfying

I love these machines, excellent design and great longevity

Was awesome piece of kit. Check 2009/2010 iMac 27" 1366/mxm graphics still usable today

Im actually using a X58 system as main PC although its age i have a really good experience. CPU: Xeon X5650 (OC'd 4.2Ghz Limited by stock Acer Aspire M7720 although Cpu temps not passing the 70's at 100% load) Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X58 Ram: 16gb ddr3 Corsair Rams in triple channel (8+4+4) GPU: GTX 1050 Ti (not able to upgrade due to overpricing in my country) SSD: 500Gb Samsung 870 EVO Hdd: 2tb Western Digital PSU: 500W Evga Case: NZXT H500i Im pretty happy considering that all together i payed little over 500€ on all my setup, including a G27, and a Logitech sound system, G502 Hero and a local branded mechanical keyboard.

I saw the thumbnail and thought “Oh my!”

I saw the title and right away knew you scooped up a bargain. These are very popular via to them being the last Mac Pro tower that is relatively upgradable outside the current model which has a huge entry price. They can run a reasonably recent version of MacOS straight away and with a compatible graphics card, can run almost up to the current release. You can swap the CPU's around with various models so you can prioritise clock speed over cores (3.4ghz I believe is the highest with quad core CPU's), they support up to 128gb RAM, you can add USB 3 via expansion cards too. The GPU's are a mix. The last version of nVidia GPU's supported by Apple I think were the 9 series. 10 series were supported by nVidia with drivers they supplied, but weren't in MacOS by default. As others have said, the 1070 would likely boot, but you won't get a loading screen; you'll only get an image once you reach the desktop. AMD cards were better supported. So its common for people upgrading these to go for a Vega card or 5700 for example. I think Snazzy Labs and Luke Miani have done videos on upgrading these models in the past. But fully decked out they are still capable PC's.

Put an aftermarket AIO 240mm water cooler on this 1070. It will allow the card to stay in boost mode all the time. It will get the temps down to 39 degrees under load.

I wonder if Throttlestop would work for overclocking this.

Damn, the case is in such good condition

Brilliant video - funny I just bought one of these - doesn’t boot apparently so the guy sold it to me for $70 so I’m going to see what I can do to bring this beauty back to life!

Thank you for thinking out of the box and testing odd combinations.

If you want an equivalent honestly could go HP Z600. They are like $150-$250 USD. I bought 2 of them and if you get the second release of the motherboard you can put 96gb of Memory in these things! It's my daily driver with a GTX 1060 atm.

Interesting 👍😀 but such a shame not possible to access the bios, there must be a way... someone that works in a service centre doing repairs should know...

I had a 1st gen Intel Mac Pro. I played World of Warcraft on it in Windows via BootCamp, which played it 100% fine. The first basic GPU I had in it failed, and the used replacement also failed. I sold it before the third one might fail. There was only one gaming card stated that would have worked with it, and there were 4 tiers of Mac GPUs for it, I had the cheapest one. These old Macs have a hard stop on which Mac OS version they will accept up to.

I had a few n idea GPU in my 5,1, Had a 1080 GTX, Titan X and Titan RTX all works fine in my 5,1 running windows 10 Pro but I sold the 5,1 a few years ago, Currently have the 7,1 running a Titan RTX again works fine, enjoyed your video brings back memories when I had a 5,1

This is still a great machine in my opinion. I like the looks and i have the 2019 version of the Mac Pro. I was always a pc guy. Build my own computers and went up until Windows 7. When i was diagnosed with leukemia, i wanted a laptop because i was a lot in the hospital. But i want a reliable one. So i know, back in the days (2009) Windows laptops were getting better. But there were still a lot of problems with either the battery or the HDD's/SSD's. So mid 2009 is when i bought my first Macbook Pro 15"! I was so happy with it that i decided to go with the 27" Apple led Cinema display and later on connected a second one (Thunderbolt display.) I know Mac computers cost a lot of money. And yes, a pc can (in some cases) turn laps around a Mac computer (depending on the configuration and situation.) I do music production, video editing and graphic (web) design. I have a 16-core Mac Pro with 96GB RAM, 8TB internal SSD and the W5700XT GPU with 16GB. I wish the GPU was a little bit better but at the time, it was already €15000 (about the same in $) so for me, that was the limit i wanted to go about. Certainly because i knew Apple silicon was on the horizon. I'm not afraid for the future of my Mac Pro though. I know it will last me a long time. Sure, it might lack some features in the future for Mac's like the M1. But i don't really care as long as i can keep on producing music. It is powerful enough for my needs. Just, (like i said) the GPU could be a little bit better. Anyway, great video!

I'm gaming on the exact same machine, well, almost... 2 x5690 CPUs (12C/24T), 72GB RAM, Radeon RX580 Nitro+, 2TB NVMe SSD + 4TB SATA SSD + 3TB HDD on a 2K + 1080p monitors and the RD580 is my current bottleneck, I can't go higher because of MacOS 10.14 which I produce music on, but I'm tempted to put a beefier NVIDIA card in there for Windows and games, while keeping the RX580 for MacOS... should be feasible with OpenCore.

Hey man, can you make an updated video on Windows 10 Yes Edition with the lastest version of Windows 10, or maybe even an Windows 11 version?

HD 5770 will work as a Valorant, Fortnite Performance mode card with the right drivers in a true windows pc. built a system with one a few months ago. No issues

speakin of overclocking x58, do you think you might make an x58 overclocking guide for 2022?

This was literally my favorite mac design of all time and I don't even like macs.

I have two HD 5770s and they surely run heaven at 1080p and with more than 3fps even a single one. Still ancient and not for gaming but still.

I know this is old but hear me out. You have to upgrade the EFI by upgrading the base OS to High Sierra. Then you install OCLP which adds a seperate bootloader that can work with non-Apple GPUs. OCLP allows you to update to newer macOS versions and makes it easy to dual boot. I daily a 5,1 that runs macOS 12 and Windows 10. It has two Xeon X5680s and an AMD RX 580. I may upgrade my GPU in the future though.

I've got a 4.1($50), that i plan on flashing to a 5.1, and installing my dual x5690 with sime cooling mods if it gets too hot. Edit, i have several X, E and L series 5600 processors, my X5690s came out of my original workstation/gaming machine with 12 slots of RAM, but the board died, and figured i'd throw them in the Mac for a nice little sleeper

Apple stopped supporting these Macs several years ago, in generally Mac computers are only supported for 6-7 years, some get more support, some get less, but on average it is about 6.5 years. I used to always say, 'Buy a Mac, they're built well, and windows will always support them' but thats changing with windows 11 requiring TPM 2.0, yes i could install it on my 2010 MacBook Pro, but it never worked right, and its not the age of the hardware, my thinkpad of the same hardware design works great in windows 11

I bought a bunch of these to harvest their dual cpu trays. they are worth alot, i would sell the dual trays online. 2009 4,1 mac pro dual trays wont work on 2010-2012 5,1s and vice versa. Firmware is different. It will work but fans will run 100%.

2012 MacPro5,1 w/ EVGA RTX2060, 32G RAM, 1TB SSD Win10. I game Destiny 2 everyday without issue when my clan mates always have issues on gaming PC's. Just saying! Very Duable!

By any chance can you show us how to install Windows 10 on these Mac Pros?

7:01 ah a classic "snsv" graphics card