I used a heavily-upgraded 2008 Mac Pro (32 GB RAM, R9 280x, SATA SSD in PCIe card, USB 3.0) as my main everyday computer for several years until it died in early 2021, whereupon I replaced it with an M1 Mac Mini (and now have an amazing M1 Max Mac Studio).
Thanks! Currently I'm having to take a bit of a hiatus from making videos as I have a job again (yay!) as I've been using these past couple weekends working on my vehicle
@@King_Kuya Yeah my '99 grand cherokee has been needing lots of bits to make it less terrifying to drive. Replacing just the front shocks and tires improved it significantly. When the stuff arrives next I intend to do the left lower tie rod end and the right lower control arm as well as the steering damper and both rear shocks
@@DimondDoesTech I totally understand! I put new shocks on my truck and a new idle control arm, but now when I go over bumps my car bounces like it’s on a pogo stick. I’m guessing the shocks were DOA or they are just way too soft. Gotta love Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge! At least the ones from the 90s are relatively easy to work on.
You got that right for sure. I love my 4.0, not for the reliability even though thats nice, but for the ease of maintenance. Pushrod, so no OHC so that means extraordinarily simple timing chain, literally connects 2 gears, water pump is like 3 bolts and can be undone after taking off JUST the belt I think or nearly as easy, and most everything is pretty easy to reach. The V8 grand cherokees are much worse though. No thanks to them. And next weekend I bought a heap more parts to install such as a new front right brake rotor, all new brake pads, o2 sensor bungs, o2 sensors, o2 sensor extension cables, and a new alternator (already installed) because I burned up my old one charging a co-workers battery. Heck tomorrow I get to install a new serpentine belt and power steering pump pulley cause I put a hole running down part of the belt (not across it) and the pulley because its cracked. Yay for making vehicles nice to drive that you suddenly like and want to keep on the road!
I use a Mac Pro 3.1 on daily basis :2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core, 32 Gb of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with 3 SSD and 2 HD running Sierra, High Sierra and Catalina. It works like charm . I would not say it is that obsolete but nice video, anyway.
Well depends on your use case of course. If you still need to use Mac programs that only run on Nvidia hardware from that era then by golly these are still great for that. Fastest lineup of macs that will take a 680 as far as I'm aware. For modern tasks though the dual C2Q adjacent Xeons leave a lot to be desired.
My father bought one years ago, and I use it now for web browsing. Was fine once I put an SSD in it. I'm thinking of dual boot to Snow Leopard and running PowerPC games on it.
We have one running dosdude sierra, apple server, filemaker server from an ssd with internal and external backup drives. Has been running for years with no problems.
Yeah it is very straight and very compartmentalized. However the airflow for the 4,1 and 5,1 for PCIe devices is rather lacking for non blower GPUs. Any card I've thrown in there has run 10-15C hotter than normal
Nope. Due to these benchmarks being in Windows the performance would be significantly worse as the RX 580 is only performance equivalent to a GTX 1070 and VR performance equivalent (due to borked encoder driver) to a laptop GTX 1050.
@@laurencejohnson4106 True. I had had other ideas for this machine but unfortunately I have since sold it. I didn't need 2 Mac Pros ya know, especially not with the performance gap between my 4,1 and this 3,1.
@@laurencejohnson4106 Holy heck YES. At idle my 5,1 with the 5690s uses ~250w and under full load expect in excess of 400w with the CPUs only and 550-600w with the RX 580 included.
Bought my 2008 in early 2008 and it still performs flawlessly for what I use it for in 2024!
I used a heavily-upgraded 2008 Mac Pro (32 GB RAM, R9 280x, SATA SSD in PCIe card, USB 3.0) as my main everyday computer for several years until it died in early 2021, whereupon I replaced it with an M1 Mac Mini (and now have an amazing M1 Max Mac Studio).
This is amazingly edited and the voiceover is fantastic. You deserve so many more subs! I was shocked to see you were not a giant channel. Keep it up!
Thanks! Currently I'm having to take a bit of a hiatus from making videos as I have a job again (yay!) as I've been using these past couple weekends working on my vehicle
@@DimondDoesTech I understand what you mean. Work has picked up for me alot lately! And I have a '97 Ram that always needs work :P
@@King_Kuya Yeah my '99 grand cherokee has been needing lots of bits to make it less terrifying to drive. Replacing just the front shocks and tires improved it significantly. When the stuff arrives next I intend to do the left lower tie rod end and the right lower control arm as well as the steering damper and both rear shocks
@@DimondDoesTech I totally understand! I put new shocks on my truck and a new idle control arm, but now when I go over bumps my car bounces like it’s on a pogo stick. I’m guessing the shocks were DOA or they are just way too soft. Gotta love Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge! At least the ones from the 90s are relatively easy to work on.
You got that right for sure. I love my 4.0, not for the reliability even though thats nice, but for the ease of maintenance. Pushrod, so no OHC so that means extraordinarily simple timing chain, literally connects 2 gears, water pump is like 3 bolts and can be undone after taking off JUST the belt I think or nearly as easy, and most everything is pretty easy to reach. The V8 grand cherokees are much worse though. No thanks to them. And next weekend I bought a heap more parts to install such as a new front right brake rotor, all new brake pads, o2 sensor bungs, o2 sensors, o2 sensor extension cables, and a new alternator (already installed) because I burned up my old one charging a co-workers battery. Heck tomorrow I get to install a new serpentine belt and power steering pump pulley cause I put a hole running down part of the belt (not across it) and the pulley because its cracked. Yay for making vehicles nice to drive that you suddenly like and want to keep on the road!
I use a Mac Pro 3.1 on daily basis :2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core, 32 Gb of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 with 3 SSD and 2 HD running Sierra, High Sierra and Catalina. It works like charm . I would not say it is that obsolete but nice video, anyway.
Well depends on your use case of course. If you still need to use Mac programs that only run on Nvidia hardware from that era then by golly these are still great for that. Fastest lineup of macs that will take a 680 as far as I'm aware. For modern tasks though the dual C2Q adjacent Xeons leave a lot to be desired.
@@DimondDoesTech Of course I mean not obsolete for my needs, you are right. Thanks for the video!
@@miguimau what do you use it for? i ahev mine maxed out and can just pretty much just browse the web
My father bought one years ago, and I use it now for web browsing. Was fine once I put an SSD in it. I'm thinking of dual boot to Snow Leopard and running PowerPC games on it.
I think this is MacPro 3,1, same as yours.
Hmmm an interesting idea.
this is a good in depth video for the machine i just purchased. nice work!
absolutely underrated, best voice acting ever
Wow thanks!
We have one running dosdude sierra, apple server, filemaker server from an ssd with internal and external backup drives. Has been running for years with no problems.
Hell yeah if it works it works. No need to replace something thats working without issue and fulfills the needs its needed for well.
here before 500 subs!!! remember me when you get famous!!!
Thanks! I got plenty more... odd things... planned so stay tuned!
1 million soon
I have 3.1 and 4.1. Love the cooler routing 😂
Yeah it is very straight and very compartmentalized. However the airflow for the 4,1 and 5,1 for PCIe devices is rather lacking for non blower GPUs. Any card I've thrown in there has run 10-15C hotter than normal
Your video results would have been better with a simple RX 580. Good video.
Nope. Due to these benchmarks being in Windows the performance would be significantly worse as the RX 580 is only performance equivalent to a GTX 1070 and VR performance equivalent (due to borked encoder driver) to a laptop GTX 1050.
It would probably perform better with a Linux OS., installed.
Most likely not. These CPUs are fast enough that installing linux would not help much
@@DimondDoesTech It would be an interesting video though.
@@laurencejohnson4106 True. I had had other ideas for this machine but unfortunately I have since sold it. I didn't need 2 Mac Pros ya know, especially not with the performance gap between my 4,1 and this 3,1.
@@DimondDoesTech Do Mac Pro computers use a lot of electricity?
@@laurencejohnson4106 Holy heck YES. At idle my 5,1 with the 5690s uses ~250w and under full load expect in excess of 400w with the CPUs only and 550-600w with the RX 580 included.
You want gaming,buy a cheap PC,a Mac is made for work,not gaming..-
Of course. My point here though is more so how it can perform doing something it wasn't meant to do.