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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.
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.
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Radeon HD 5770 GPU and El Capitan patch as well as 32GB Ram and the X2 Quad Core Xeon’s, beast of a machine but a bit outdated.
@@nobudgetstories2476 Well it's completely a beast back then, but in today's standard it's outdated. I cannot call this slow but more of like outdated hardware.
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.
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.
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.
I had the single core 500Mhz G4. Found it on the side of the road back in 2008. I ended up getting the Sonnet 1GHz CPU upgrade for it from a thrift store for $10, still packed in the original box. Ended up selling it for like $40. By then I had upgraded to the dual processor 1.83GHz PowerMac G5, bought from a Goodwill Computer store for $29.99 in 2010. Just yesterday I went dumpster diving and snagged a mint condition working 2011 Mac Mini (Core i5) from a roll-off dumpster behind a warehouse. It now joins my 2010 27" iMac (Core i5) bought from a Goodwill for $69.99 and upgraded with an i7-860 I got from my school's dumpster (in the original retail box).
@@redleader6442 Yeah, I had wanted to purchase a Sonnet card on eBay, so I knew what it was as soon as I saw it. Thought it would be dead or something but, by everything I could tell, it had never even been installed. The guy I sold that Mac to was a beginner in music production and had put up a CL ad specifically for this era of Mac, and it had to be like 800+ MHz G4 minimum to run the older music software he had a license for. I told him I had a 1GHz G4, then I show up with this visibly older style rig and the guy was a bit suspect of it until I popped the panel and showed him the purple heatsink with the Sonnet tag on the fan, then booted it up to show it was indeed a 1GHz G4. I even helped him to successfully install, activate and run his software on it. Guy was extremely thankful; I was happy to sell it to someone who would put it to good use.
@@DJSekuHusky I'm not sure what's more impressive: That you found a Sonnet upgrade card for such a low price, or that it's new old stock (or as good as). Thrift stores are magical places. I once paid $15 at one, for an old Athlon system with a Voodoo3 and an Aureal Vortex2, and ended up knocking more than half of my next month's apartment rent out with the profit I made from fixing and reselling it. I love the design of the graphite and white PMG4's because it just screams modern art, akin to something you'd find on the wall of a professional music studio. The fact that you sold yours to an aspiring producer is oddly fitting.
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.
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.
They are designed for servers that are meant to run all the time. The metal enclosure for each stick is a heat sink for the RAM chips. This generation of the Mac Pro required these server RAM sticks until the 2009 models, when by then they only needed to be ECC memory.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 RUclips videos).
Hey, sorry but I cannot stress this enough, but whatever you do, DO NOT ERASE ANY INFORMATION ON THE DRIVE! If you do and it is a file system for Mac OS, you cannot get it back unless your a huge coder that can make code quick and easy, (meaning a week) because that File system has all the Boot EFIs and img for the system. If you do this, use a VM so you don't erase anything. Someone did the same thing and payed the price for their Apple Sins. They did what you did and installed windows, but cleaning the drive deleted Mac OS and the Boot EFIs and img files. In the future, be more cautious, and it lowers the value of these beautiful relics. P.S. I am a hardcore apple fan that dreams of having the Prototype devices as well as officially released devices.
@@dbbrant3522Well I usually know enough to stay away from system files and haven't ran a drive cleaner in years, besides this one didn't even have a HD in it when I got it, so I had to put one in and install Mountain Lion (with a CD I had) before even installing Windows); so if something did happen; I'd just wipe the whole drive and do it all again (which is how I normally do it anyway - not many files on that computer that are THAT important/not backed up elsewhere, and what there is is mostly saved on a secondary drive in one of the other bays).
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.
Thank you for your cleaning tips. Recently, I was given a Mac Pro 1,1 and now I have to remove all the dust, nicotine and dirt inside the computer. The owner didn’t do much maintenance and besides he smokes a lot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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......
I bought a Mac Pro 1,1 plus 23.5 inch apple monitor with apple wireless keyboard and mouse for $30. It came with 2 hard drives 1tb WD black and 750 seagate and a bonus old apple camera for FaceTime.
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
I wish these things werent so heavy, cause it stops you from even being able to buy a cheap one to fix. $60-$90 shipping in the US for a box that heavy.
This looks exactly like the Dell Precision 690...for the construction. I have one refurbished by myself and runs as a peach. 2x Intel Xeon 5160 at 3,00 GHz, 16GB of DDR2 ECC
I just picked up 2 of these tanks just the towers. Sadly neither works. 1 chimes but no boot screen, and fans ramp up The other just has fan spin slow. No chime no screen
the patch process I have once seen in Windows 64-bit on 32-bit EFI mac. That is why I have told you that 64-bit Windows can work on 32-bit EFI mac in 2006/2007 MacBook Pro video.
That whole rig is cheaper than a decent PC case, which is what I would have turned it into. irrespective of how it's used it's still a great project and an interesting look into Apple's engineering; Alienware tries the same thing but ends up making something that's loud, hot and slow.
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?
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 👋🙂🙏
I got my 5,1 for 200 dollars. It’s got everything in it now. I even put thunderbolt 3 in it. Yes the new M1 is nice but my computer stills runs great and put a sapphire 5700xt nitro. Have a boot screen thanks to open core.
Pretty funny that the Apple computer (that you can't bring outside to show other people you own an Apple) are the only Apple product that literally tank in term of Price after several years. I remember this computer costing a fortune when new.
In case of intel cpus, or generally LGA style combos don't or can't get ripped off by the cooler, as they are held in by the motherboard. PGA or most amd cpus can get pulled off
One question, shouldn't you be cleaning with the anti bacterial thingy the case first before you do anything else with it? If you clean/fix everything else first and then clean it...kinda...it doesn't feel right to me. Perhaps it's just me. Funny story. I clicked on your video and I saw Arnold dressed as Conan, sitting on his throne. The prologue music from the OST starts playing. I was like, that's a change of content for this channel! I obviously clicked the wrong video, but funny. To me anyway. PS. Epic hair.
i'd assume that even after applications stop supporting el capitan some new life could be breathed into the machine with linux! The specs definitely seem too good to just be outcast by an outdated operating system
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Your balls will thank you for it 😆
not this guy again XD i saw pewdiepie's video on his morning routine, kinda cringe ngl
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You problem is that you did updates to a computer that was hacked to Yosemite. You have to refuse updates.
Honestly, getting a full set for $70 is a real steal! Nice find!
I got one for less than 10 eu
@@FS--ew3se managed to pick up a Cinema HD for 27 cents, but its a shame that I have to pay over $100 for shipping.
@@chewthysteak damnnnnnn 100$ in shipping sux balls
Edit: I picked it up locally so it's very cheap. It's a quad core xeon 3.1 mac pro
@@FS--ew3se that's what international shipping does to a man. At least the winning bid was cheap
@@chewthysteak yea well as long as you like it it's worth it 👍
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!
Steve Jobs is the 🐐
old apple had a charm the new one lacks
The Mac Pro case is beautiful, sadly to modify something newer in it, doesn't come out right when it comes to I/O
That was probably actually rubber reversion and not melted adhesive - something that’s extremely common with vintage tech.
It sucks when you go to use your childhood items and the rubber is dying
i would have never guessed this thing came out 16 years ago, it looks so ahead of it's time
i thought it was from this year
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.
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.
Love the look on the old icons and styles of Mac OS X. Just looks so much better than the modern ones.
I agree, it's class
You can copy those icons from the CoreServices folder and use in newer versions of OSX
@@jasonbidwell I know that it’s an old comment, but can you, pleas, tell what files from CoreServices do I need?
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.
*beast*
I’m a windows chad here to say ur wrong
@@nobudgetstories2476 Well it's completely a beast back then, but in today's standard it's outdated. I cannot call this slow but more of like outdated hardware.
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.
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.
I wanted to ask, what version ableton do you use. I use ableton 11 on my Asus laptop but I don’t know if my 2.1 could run ableton 11 on windows🤔
@@xortinmalinsky5772 I run Ableton Live 9 suite. It's insanely stable on 10.11.
Great video. Glad to see that you didn't skip over the OS troubleshooting. I find it more interesting that way.
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.
I had the single core 500Mhz G4. Found it on the side of the road back in 2008.
I ended up getting the Sonnet 1GHz CPU upgrade for it from a thrift store for $10, still packed in the original box.
Ended up selling it for like $40. By then I had upgraded to the dual processor 1.83GHz PowerMac G5, bought from a Goodwill Computer store for $29.99 in 2010.
Just yesterday I went dumpster diving and snagged a mint condition working 2011 Mac Mini (Core i5) from a roll-off dumpster behind a warehouse.
It now joins my 2010 27" iMac (Core i5) bought from a Goodwill for $69.99 and upgraded with an i7-860 I got from my school's dumpster (in the original retail box).
@@DJSekuHusky People just don't know what collectors will pay for these things. Nice finds, especially that Sonnet.
@@redleader6442 Yeah, I had wanted to purchase a Sonnet card on eBay, so I knew what it was as soon as I saw it.
Thought it would be dead or something but, by everything I could tell, it had never even been installed.
The guy I sold that Mac to was a beginner in music production and had put up a CL ad specifically for this era of Mac, and it had to be like 800+ MHz G4 minimum to run the older music software he had a license for.
I told him I had a 1GHz G4, then I show up with this visibly older style rig and the guy was a bit suspect of it until I popped the panel and showed him the purple heatsink with the Sonnet tag on the fan, then booted it up to show it was indeed a 1GHz G4. I even helped him to successfully install, activate and run his software on it.
Guy was extremely thankful; I was happy to sell it to someone who would put it to good use.
@@DJSekuHusky I'm not sure what's more impressive: That you found a Sonnet upgrade card for such a low price, or that it's new old stock (or as good as). Thrift stores are magical places. I once paid $15 at one, for an old Athlon system with a Voodoo3 and an Aureal Vortex2, and ended up knocking more than half of my next month's apartment rent out with the profit I made from fixing and reselling it.
I love the design of the graphite and white PMG4's because it just screams modern art, akin to something you'd find on the wall of a professional music studio. The fact that you sold yours to an aspiring producer is oddly fitting.
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.
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.
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.
When you pull the stack of rams, I'm shocked. Those rams look more menacing than the graphic card
They are designed for servers that are meant to run all the time. The metal enclosure for each stick is a heat sink for the RAM chips. This generation of the Mac Pro required these server RAM sticks until the 2009 models, when by then they only needed to be ECC memory.
Psivewri favorite late night snack is Dust Helper.😛
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.
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
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.
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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
You are very comfortable around computer systems. That’s an impressive skill to have. Great job!
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
You can’t install Catalina on these Mac Pros unfortunately
@@cristobal521 you can. Just use dosdudes os patcher
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 RUclips videos).
Hey, sorry but I cannot stress this enough, but whatever you do, DO NOT ERASE ANY INFORMATION ON THE DRIVE! If you do and it is a file system for Mac OS, you cannot get it back unless your a huge coder that can make code quick and easy, (meaning a week) because that File system has all the Boot EFIs and img for the system. If you do this, use a VM so you don't erase anything. Someone did the same thing and payed the price for their Apple Sins. They did what you did and installed windows, but cleaning the drive deleted Mac OS and the Boot EFIs and img files. In the future, be more cautious, and it lowers the value of these beautiful relics.
P.S. I am a hardcore apple fan that dreams of having the Prototype devices as well as officially released devices.
@@dbbrant3522Well I usually know enough to stay away from system files and haven't ran a drive cleaner in years, besides this one didn't even have a HD in it when I got it, so I had to put one in and install Mountain Lion (with a CD I had) before even installing Windows); so if something did happen; I'd just wipe the whole drive and do it all again (which is how I normally do it anyway - not many files on that computer that are THAT important/not backed up elsewhere, and what there is is mostly saved on a secondary drive in one of the other bays).
Facebook Marketplace has all kinds of stuff I could really find.
Almost makes me want to activate Facebook again.....almost....
6:23 it was cool it looked like it new it was changed and it showed the old and new that transition was amazing.
That foam solution for the SSD mount is pretty slick. I'll have to remember that trick just in case
Damn that's a great deal with the monitor included
btw, I can confirm that with some sketchy patch tools, and modded EFI, you may boot up to Catalina
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
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.
Thank you for your cleaning tips. Recently, I was given a Mac Pro 1,1 and now I have to remove all the dust, nicotine and dirt inside the computer. The owner didn’t do much maintenance and besides he smokes a lot.
Your channel is the most nostalgic and the best one ever I'm a subscriber since 2015.
Its like christmas morning when you upload! keep up the great work :D
That’s the way we like it.... cleaning, troubleshooting, and a happy ending for this awesome old machines!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The ultimate futureproof PC.
Welcome back mate! you should buy one of the dirt cheap parts poly carbonate macbooks of Ebay, you can get two for 14 Pounds
Hope an eucalyptus oil company sponsors you
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.
This is it boys, he's gone full Chad mode with the cut. I like it, keep on making this good content!
3:19 skip the sponsor
Great video. currently looking around on marketplace lol. Love the runescape music at the end too
6:24 That's pretty satisfying glitch! 🤣
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.
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
not watched full video yet (watching now) but wondering if you did the 1,1 > 2,1 bios conversion? works wonders
You should try to see if you can find a Power Mac G5 quad at max it out
Isn't MacPostFactor a much less complex method to patch?
Does anyone else get Psivewri and MattKC mixed up 😂 love both of y’all’s channels
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!
I come to watch computers and I get an ad for a shaver for my balls 🤣
I got an old laptop with so many problems from facebook. But i didnt give up and fixed it and its actually quite nice
I love em mac pros. Got one for under 10 eu. Love it
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!
That GPU does not have VBIOS for Mac i think, that's why it shows black screen on startup.
What lens you got on that X-T4?
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......
When I worked for an apple resale/ repair shop, and one of my last repairs was a board swap on one of these.
You would do great in commercials as you really represented MANSCAPED 😀
I bought a Mac Pro 1,1 plus 23.5 inch apple monitor with apple wireless keyboard and mouse for $30. It came with 2 hard drives 1tb WD black and 750 seagate and a bonus old apple camera for FaceTime.
This is my favorite RUclips channel! Great video! Thanks! 👍
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
Loved the video. Those old mac pros are soo beautiful :D and surprisingly useful today
I wish these things werent so heavy, cause it stops you from even being able to buy a cheap one to fix. $60-$90 shipping in the US for a box that heavy.
What were the temps after dust cleaning? I have to know! 😂
This looks exactly like the Dell Precision 690...for the construction. I have one refurbished by myself and runs as a peach. 2x Intel Xeon 5160 at 3,00 GHz, 16GB of DDR2 ECC
I am using my Mac pro 1.1 with ATI HD Radeon 5700. I put windows 7 on it and works beautifully. Latest Linux does struggle on Mac pro 1.1
The 30 inch version of those Cinema Displays are still really solid displays tbh
I just picked up 2 of these tanks just the towers. Sadly neither works. 1 chimes but no boot screen, and fans ramp up
The other just has fan spin slow. No chime no screen
the patch process I have once seen in Windows 64-bit on 32-bit EFI mac. That is why I have told you that 64-bit Windows can work on 32-bit EFI mac in 2006/2007 MacBook Pro video.
my first ever gpu upgrade was an NVIDIA Quadro FX1800
That whole rig is cheaper than a decent PC case, which is what I would have turned it into.
irrespective of how it's used it's still a great project and an interesting look into Apple's engineering; Alienware tries the same thing but ends up making something that's loud, hot and slow.
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?
It can still be upgraded right? Like to get better performance?
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 👋🙂🙏
Must be very satisfying being able to fettle the old computer back to life. Thanks for an interesting video.
I got one of these computers for $60. Gutted it out and converted it to a hackintosh running my amd 3900x chip. It’s a Super powerful machine now lol
Kelper card with Opencore Legacy Patcher, I think Big Sur would run great.
7:27 "Macint-d'oh!"
The Design is Timeless
Thanks for the info for patching Mac's to install new mac os versions
I enjoyed watching you as usual :-)
The case is cool. I'd love to see if / how one could be modded to put a modern computer within it.
Got mine for £17 at a boot fair, was missing drives and the drive caddies but works perfectly otherwise
How do you initially install lion? My cd drive is no good and I can’t seem to do it correctly haha! Great video I love them!
have not seen a psievwri video on my mentions for months! Love the Rolex Sub BTW!
Cool video, very tempted on buying one of these on FB market place. Also cool tube lights! What’s the name of these?
I got my 5,1 for 200 dollars. It’s got everything in it now. I even put thunderbolt 3 in it. Yes the new M1 is nice but my computer stills runs great and put a sapphire 5700xt nitro. Have a boot screen thanks to open core.
Pretty funny that the Apple computer (that you can't bring outside to show other people you own an Apple) are the only Apple product that literally tank in term of Price after several years.
I remember this computer costing a fortune when new.
In case of intel cpus, or generally LGA style combos don't or can't get ripped off by the cooler, as they are held in by the motherboard. PGA or most amd cpus can get pulled off
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.
One question, shouldn't you be cleaning with the anti bacterial thingy the case first before you do anything else with it? If you clean/fix everything else first and then clean it...kinda...it doesn't feel right to me. Perhaps it's just me.
Funny story. I clicked on your video and I saw Arnold dressed as Conan, sitting on his throne. The prologue music from the OST starts playing. I was like, that's a change of content for this channel!
I obviously clicked the wrong video, but funny.
To me anyway.
PS. Epic hair.
The label looks like it was printed with some deadass printer on that gpu.
This was literally a steal for $70! Amazing!
would love a list of specs in the description(?) great video!
i'd assume that even after applications stop supporting el capitan some new life could be breathed into the machine with linux! The specs definitely seem too good to just be outcast by an outdated operating system