Hi Dave, nice test here. I've just bought this machine as well. Can I kindly ask you what monitor is the one you have in this video ? It looks very nice Cheers

Just found this channel and love this upgrade series of the old Mac Pro. It would have been interesting to see the difference in temperature before and after new paste was applied. A proper stress test and maybe HW Monitor to check on temps. Anyway, happy 2025 👍

Great video, explained clearly and concisely. Well mic'ed and informative graphics.

My only issue is dualbooting Macos and any other OS after using opencore either MacOs or the other OS windows or Linux goes missing you won't find on boot menu,looks like opencore corrupts everything it works well if you only intend to run MacOS

I’m still using a Mac Pro 5.1

Excelent explanation, thanks! Do you know if there is a way to install on a 2011 macbook pro with no battery? The thing is I have to press the Power button while plugging the AC cord, and hold it for 10 seconds in order to start the machine, this is to bypass the battery check it makes before running the OSX, and im afraid I will be stuck in that process if I dont press the power button while booting. Thanks.

In agreement with many of the comments this is a clear and easy to follow video with a succinct explanation of your options. Great content very well presented

Can you use external ssd on the trash can if it’s the supported blades?

its all fun and games until one fails, and you lose data from all 4. raid0 is useless

I'm using MB Pro 2015 Monterey OS, and suddenly could not connected to external monitor through WIFI connection. Can you help please

David, hello! Will you ever do a follow-up to this video? Would be neat to see this old MDD fired up and used again.

my macbook air m1 gets more than double the geekbench score , this computer is a paperweight by todays standards

With the Pyxis you also aren't getting two incredibly important things: continuous autofocus and IBIS. Purists will retch, but these two elements change the game for fast handheld shooting.

Thank you for your valuable information. That's exactly what I' am looking for. Greetings UK from Turkiye.🙋‍♂

Constant Geekery has mannerisms that are very fruity.. 🍏 💋

This is one of the best and most fair reviews I have seen on the net. Unbiased and useful.Thank you

This was a very well done video with a lot of great information even for beginners. I took notes. I just wanted to share my own quick experiences trying to setup a RAID10, RAID5 and RAID 0 with a ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore Motherboard (MoBO). First was the MoBo RAID configurations require Only Intel M.2 SSDs and they needed their ME Firmware changed before installing them into an ASUS hyper x4 ME M.2 Card to do the RAID. It also required buying a separate hardware piece; the VROC module to activate the Intel Platform RAIDS. I only found 2 to buy before finding the second one did have a registered warrantee by the Intel's online warranty confirmation. The entire RAID setup was made insanely impossible at the time because the online download RAID support for the ASUS MoBo and Intel was basically non-existent. This was because Intel had stopped supporting the VROC RAID Module. Therefore, both ASUS & Intel would constantly try to defer any customers wanting to do a hardware VROC RAID into doing a Windows Software RAID 0. ASUS Support had tried to convince me I had done a Hardware RAID0 with the VROC Key as they had walked me through doing the RST Windows Raid0. I spent months going back and forth between ASUS & Intel Support before I was able to acquire the necessary drivers and installation instruction steps. (Note that Intel didn't make a M.2 SSD above 2TB.) I basically with constant support tickets over months of badgering them got a support agent to give me the Intel M.2 SSD ME Firmware drivers and instructions and then ASUS Support the Drivers and Instructions. Yes, the firmware and instructions were not something available online at the time. Intel Firmware download support didn't yet list or post online any drivers for my VROC module or ME Firmware for their Intel SSDs. Basically, my ASUS ROG Rampage VI Extreme Encore MoBo VROC RAID abilities was a total sales sham.

Apple was doing Intel contact frames before it was cool

Ahora que estan mas baratos son ideales para estudiantes de diseño y trabajo para redes😊

Thanks a lot! Pretty straightforward, but the instruction on the site need more reviews, as this is not completely clear the first pass on USB and THEN on internal disk, due much to aesthetics put in the page, than content. I work in IT, and to be sincere, I think that writing manuals needs people who are really able to. 😉 Thank you so much.

The ESR is already in Firefox. Sigh.

Super clear, helpful, informative video, thank you for the great work!

One cable optimization: Get double sided velcro and attach it to the rear of the video assist horizontally at the top above the fan holes. Might block NPFs so only if you are going DC in. Then you can use a very short USB to go into Video Assist.

Just a question : did this work on Oyen Digital U32 SSD 8TB external hard drive instead of Samsung SSD ? And second question : I have is 10.12 Sierra on my Mac Pro 2013 and for reasons I cannot upgrade the os version , does that work on my mac with sierra 10.12 ?

Very useful 🙏🌹

My voice recording was recorded to either left or right channel, the same as the screen audio. Is there a way to fix it. Thanks in advance

just saw one for sale 6 core, 250gb hd, 32gb ram and D500 for about 237 dollars

i just one with quad core, 250gb hd ande 2 x D300 and 16 gb ram. I will upgrade to 1000gb hd and 64 gb ram - use only for internet, mail and so on. No videoediting or music. Alwans wanted one. I paid 1.300 DKR about 182 dollars

Having a Problem Getting the OCLP pkg. /when I get to the Assets and click on it all I get is a rotating circle that never opens up the (6) lines you show @ 3.16 time. I have a Old MacBook Pro mid 2009 with a Nvidia 9400 GPU. Am I doing something wrong???? Don

I think the 8-core D500 is the best to have, but a budget option would be getting a 4 or 6-core and buying a 2680v2 processor, it is a cheap 10 core, usually like 15€, where the 2690, 2697 and 1680 all do around 100€.

Thanks!

Did i mess up the process since i didnt get to the reboot screen and it just restarted my computer

you have no idea how much this helped appreciate it way better than obs.

Does universal control work? I have my MacBook Air early 2015 that I used OCLP to install Sonoma. I haven’t been able to screen share it to my iPad Pro. Can I get that feature to work? Help please

Very well done and researched. Thank you. I don’t have a 2013 Mac Pro any longer (I sold it immediately after buying my M1 Mac mini), however this information is great to know anyway. Cheers!

I don't process video, only photographs on my 2010 12-core MacPro. It's been a fine and reliable computer and has gracefully handled everything I've thrown at it. Your tests shows these are still powerful machines with lots of capability despite their age and technology. Sort of like me (on a good day; I'm almost 83).

2019 unsupported mac... jfc apple.

I found this interesting. I have a March 2010 MacPro 6,1 with the 1066 MHz ram and D500 video card. It's been a good and reliable computer. I'm replacing it with an ordered Mac Mini M4 Pro. Apple doesn't support security updates for its OS (Monterey) and I can't run the latest versions of Lightroom and Photoshop on this machine. I could install Open Core to solve this problem but I'm not that tech-savy. I've had many Apple computers; my first was an Apple II+ almost 50 years ago. I wish I'd bought Apple stock back then!

Wow old news or what.........

do you know if it can boot through USB so i can install ubuntu instead of windows? Thank you

This video answers exactly I was looking for

This was amazing and EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you ❤❤!!!!!!

I just have to come back and say thank you! By following your instruction, it works perfectly.

Thank you for this info. Tempted to buy one. How easy is the integration to the iOS files app? Could it easily replace iCloud when constantly saving files from your phone to it? And are all the files stored in the NAS easily accessible through the iOS Files app?

It’s a shame that Apple gave up on 2013 design with M-series. It matches M-vibe much better than current MacPro.