Building a gaming PC from a FREE* Mac Pro!

[@arrongalbraith6583]

I to have a Macpro 2,1 flashed, still to this day running windows 10 with three 2002 apple 23inch cinema displays, LOVE IT!!!!

[@TheBasementChannel]

They really make great windows machines!

[@polymatt]

I really did love the design and the upgradability of these. Right now I’ve only got an XP machine but now you’ve got me thinking of finding an old Mac Pro and building it out for windows 7 and dual boot Mac OS! Great stuff as always!

[@TheBasementChannel]

Thanks! It really does make a great windows gaming machine. I’ve already found myself looking on marketplace at more powerful GPUs 😂

[@BigBadBench]

Always fun when a seemingly simple task winds up being a week(+)-long project!

[@TheBasementChannel]

I know right! So many nights lost to troubleshooting unexpected issues.

[@tio5012]

Bootcamp is a pain in the butt sometimes. You could always try and run it in compatibility mode for 98, 95 or Vista from within the properties of your game file. Anyway, it was a fun video and seeing the process is quite fascinating. Good work.

[@AristoclesPlaton]

You have the Mac Pro 3,1 which is really very slow. I am now using the dual Xeon 5690, 12 core Mac Pro 5,1 using 96 GB 1333 RAM, and an NVMe 2 x SSD on PCIe, dual boot, macOS and Windows 11 Pro. With OpenCore the dual boots work native on the machine. No Boot Camp and no emulator needed. I have Radeon RX 6800. With this I can play Red Dead Redemption 2 with all graphics on Ultra, and still get good frame rates. It will give good performance on pretty well all current games. For a 15 year old machine, that is pretty good.

[@TheBasementChannel]

Sounds good, but my goal was to build this rig for free. Unfortunately I don’t have a 12c 5,1 laying around to use 😂

[@pierreinthavong181]

Awesome mac video!😁

[@TheBasementChannel]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheRetroChannel]

Buying a game you already own to play on modern hardware: $30 Repurposing an old machine to play your original: priceless

[@TheBasementChannel]

Couldn’t have put it better myself 😆

[@SippyCupAdventures]

Interesting. I know nothing here 😄but the fact that this could be done was interesting. Man, you have a lot of "gear." 😅

[@TheBasementChannel]

I justify it by telling myself it’s all ‘content’ 😂

[@cabralcuparblond]

The reason my pc crashed and blackscreened with the fans blasting was bcs of the video drivers and the video card did not receive enough power from the psu. Maybe this is one of the reasons

[@TheBasementChannel]

Possibly. I tried 2 different PSUs, and also 2 different video cards, in different PCI slots, and nothing helped 🤷‍♂️

[@iiidiy]

Is this poop or dust? Let me poke it with my bare finger to find out! Classic :)

[@TheBasementChannel]

So glad it was dust 😅. Now I know why you wear gloves in all your videos!

[@GarthBeagle]

It's always the things we think will be easy that turn out to be totally the opposite!

[@TheBasementChannel]

I expected to get this done in an afternoon… 😅