I put a Radeon VII in my 2010 Mac Pro... Was it a good idea?

[@lukemiani]

Hey guys thanks for watching, I hope you've enjoyed the informal upgrade videos! I'll be posting the final video on June 20th at 3pm EST, make sure to watch! I don't meant to shamelessly plug my own content but KZbin really values initial clickthrough from Subscribers so when you guys tune in on the first day it helps me out a lot, and help get my videos recommended to new people. It's kinda crazy, I can pretty much predict how a video will do from the first 5 hours of subscriber views. Anyway, I'd really appreciate if you all tune in to see how this project has turned out!

[@DuyNguyenYT]

The one last last upgrade.............WHEELS! ;)

[@Messiah38]

Why did you look for a flash Radeon 7 on eBay, you don’t have boot screen

[@Rayman00069]

What was your fan noise like after installing the Radeon VII?

[@drewrobertson6286]

We got your back Luke, I will be waiting at 2pm CST!

[@briannhinton]

Luke Miani Any chance you’ll attempt OS upgrades?

[@blablagal94]

I suggest you lower the ram to 96GB so you can have Triple channel enabled. That's gonna boost your performance considerably

[@luanmaia]

yes! That would be good

[@d.harris790]

Just curious what channel is enabled while at 128GB of ram?

[@blablagal94]

@@d.harris790 Probably dual channel

[@tejaspadhye]

@@blablagal94 yep dual channel

[@joshuapinter]

I agree. Did this with mine and got a nice bump past 23,000 multiscore in Geekbench.

[@oristechreviews]

Me: Hears skillshare Also me: aggressivley double tapping right side of the screen.

[@SebsTech1]

You are certainly not alone, I do this on all videos these days

[@LeicaCat]

Especially for those of us who spend the cash every month for KZbin Premium so we don't have to see ads.

[@kirishima638]

@@LeicaCat Ahem *ad blocker*

[@freespeechadvocate7492]

KZbin vanced, it's a free mod version of KZbin. Works exactly the same just with no ads. Google it

[@LeicaCat]

Kiyoshi Kirishima I don't mind paying. I want to support KZbinrs and even give money to several of them monthly through Patreon. I watch *many* hours of KZbin per week and watch most of it at 1.5x-2.0x speed so I can consume even more content in that time. But I do hate ads and don't want to watch them if I'm willing to pay. When KZbinrs put their sponsor ads inside the video, however, I have no choice other than double-tapping the screen like a chicken eating cornfeed.

[@tad1996]

You're really doing a great job lately Luke! Easily one of the best up and coming tech channels :)

[@nickjaeger8478]

probs most underrated channel on YT. can’t get enough

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Great video, Luke. I am excited to see what you are able to do with that Radeon 7. I plan to finalize the old 5.1 as well with more RAM, 8GB GPU, and those dual 6 Core Xeon CPUs as well. Again, thank you for the update.

[@marcuscummings2803]

Dude I love your channel. I'm working on upgrading my 2010 mac pro. But first i have to get it to boot lol. Your videos are a blessing to all Mac lovers.

[@themacdaddy870]

The card was made for the Mac Pro. Perfect match

[@RogueTravel]

Beedle's Tech that is French for "Nvidia not compatible"

[@themacdaddy870]

RogueTravel Right. It’s a shame though, but I’m sure they’ll add compatibility again for NVIDIA now the new Mac Pro is coming out

[@kazi1]

Beedle's Tech lol

[@dwaynestimpson5449]

Bro, I could hang out with you all day. You mac pro geek...I love it!!

[@flashjazzcat]

Great videos. Really hankering after a 2010 Mac Pro now. :)

[@jondonnelly3]

MASTERCASE SL600M is kind of a modern take on it.

[@ChrisBrideauMedia]

Loving this series! Keep up the good work, Luke. Been following for over a year now.

[@JSRMedia]

Part 5: Flashing my Radeon VII to get the EFI Boot Screen!

[@Onlypcgaming]

LOL, dump the vbios on a google drive for the community!

[@RobbertvanGomNeumann]

Any progress with this?

[@matthewfriend6822]

Any update on the EFI boot screen?

[@meddlon4519]

YES PLEASE

[@CristianoGardoni]

You can get a bootscreen using OpenCore 0.5.8 NdkBootPicker

[@nyumetsu]

I'm not sure if you're still using this build but if so, make sure to use Opencore. I installed the Radeon VII after watching this video and noticed the performance was really wonky compared to my old Nvidia-it's because AMD Hardware Acceleration is not enabled on the standard OS. But if you run Opencore it unlocks AMD hardware acceleration and it's smooth as butter. The most noticeable performance issue you'll see without installing opencore (and it's a huge one) is H264 decoding. Before installing opencore I couldn't even play back 4k web videos at full framerate. And I had a few H264 masters in a Premiere timeline as well (cutting a reel). After installing Opencore these operations are smooth as butter. TL:DR - If you install a Radeon VII in a CMP, USE OPENCORE. Check out this watch number 7wWfU3AlFPk

[@ronevry2664]

Nice. I opted for the Radeon 7950 from OWC, which may not be _quite_ up to the 7's benchmarks, but it was close, supported metal out of the box, and came with proper power cabling for the Mac Pro 5,1. I also upgraded my Ram from them, trading in my 64 GB for 128, but the Ram does have heatsinks on each card. I'm using a 4K High-Def Pavillion display, and I am a happy camper...:)

[@baconfister]

Great stuff! Have been wanting to do the Pixlas mod on my late 2012 Mac Pro for a while, and also swap out the tray and CPUs for dual quad core 3.46GHz goodness… just been too damn busy with work! Great video, thanks for sharing it with us.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

What worries me the most is if that 9 year old power supply cant keep supplying the power that it was rated for when it rolled off the belt at the factory. Apple uses their own power supplies so you cant just buy a corsair or enermax and do a straight swap one for one. Ive mentioned this in your previous video so i dont know if you read it. Radeon VII - will exceed 300w if you push it really hard = 300w 2x X5690 average about 105-110w but go as high as 130w = 210-260w RAM - you have 8 modules that use between 2-3w each = 16-24w hard drives - 6.5-9w = you have 4 = 26w (give or take - maybe you put an SSD in) Would mean that it requires around 600w and thats not counting stuff like case fans or other things that might be powered externally like USB hard drives or mobile phones. While the proprietary powersupply is rated at 980w you'd probably be pushing it awfully close to its limits with the power draw. Theres no telling if the rails on the power supply will hold up if you really put that some pressure on the system. You might find that it would explode and blow up everything with it.

[@gbwillson]

Love your videos as always! Would you consider posting the before and after specs side by side for easy comparison? Having a split screen for the before and after graphic visuals would also be helpful.

[@siliconfreak2883]

Not a true Mac fan, but have enjoyed your videos considerably. Keep up this level of quality.

[@greylawson6352]

“Oooooh mama, this is looking spicy!” 😂😂😂

[@alitechno93]

So creepy..

[@blablagal94]

And don't forget to upgrade the WiFi/Bluetooth card so you can have all the nice features with the Apple Watch and iPhone ;)

[@savardf]

Is it doable with a 2011 macbook pro ?

[@blablagal94]

@@savardf If you get the right WiFi/Bluetooth card, yes.

[@earlyivermectincancelscovi2522]

LauRos94 … it worked nicely, I got all the new features (handoff, taking pictures with iPhone, AirDrop) + it resolved the crappy Bluetooth signal strength messing with external keyboard and mouse. It all worked nicely, until I installed a USB3 card which interfered with the internal Bluetooth antenna and messed up my mouse again. The solution is to get rid of the internal Bluetooth antenna and connect an external antenna mounted on one of the slot covers.

[@LionTree]

1st - love your videos; great production value. 2nd - I picked up a 5,1 a couple months ago and been patiently watching a bunch of videos on how to upgrade it. I used your links to get the NVME SSD and adapter. Bought an RX580 to upgrade the stock 5870. Thanks for the help!

[@LeonEdwards1976]

Hi Luke, I value your knowledge and opinion highly and I base my Apple purchases on your videos. Will you provide a full specs list after you have finished the upgrade? I would like to purchase a Mac pro 2010.

[@hblaub]

Thank you for your work documenting and showing one of the last nicely done machines made by Apple.

[@gznewman]

Thank you for inspiring me to get a Mac Pro 4,1 and really push it as far as my budget allowed! It's an absolute workhorse and I can't thank you enough. I love your content, and am looking forward to being inspired even more by your channel in the future.

[@DE3US]

Yet another great video - keep them coming :-) I have been running one of these 5.1 with a green-team card for a while and getting more than 4100 in Heaven at the same setting (just testet twice) - have you checked if your card is doing Pcie2 ? I assume you should see around the same figure with the Radeon VII? Anyway, looking forward to your next video.

[@pixelwash9707]

You should have mentioned that Apple has declared it is dropping official support for cheese-grater Macs in the upcoming Catalina version of Macos, and I have not seen anybody talking about yet in the forums about workarounds...

[@Telecasterland]

Actually he mentioned the workaround in this very video when he mentioned dosdude1.com/catalina/ pay attention before you post.

[@pixelwash9707]

Telecasterland The ‘workaround” is highly limited for many old Mac Pros, as it specifically does not support Radeons, YOU should pay attention before you post.

[@johncate9541]

I'd do it too, just because I could. There's something fun about seeing really old hardware kick the butt of brand-new stuff.

[@tommycobain2157]

John Cate yeah but this has like half the score of the new mac pro

[@grahamtaylornyc]

Great stuff. You are sooo good at this stuff and present impeccably. Well done!

[@SunnyAustria]

Great Video, can you show the performance of FCPX in one of our next videos pls? Keep up the great Work!

[@jameswallace6249]

Just bought a 2010 Mac Pro on eBay today for £330 which came with 2.8Ghz Quad-Core, a Radeon 5870 and 8GB ram. Great video Luke!

[@mortenb3606]

You are crazy dude, I'm gonna love this video!

[@CryptoFeez]

Luke congrats on 60k you where on of my KZbin inspirations I like you work ethic and believe in your self .... I’m at 635 hope to be at 1k by end of the year ....

[@CarlosRodrigues-fx3rw]

Thanks for those videos. It is like a dream with my eyes open. What a fantastic cMP you are doing. What a lovely beast

[@studiomiguel]

I'm finding myself in May of 2021 considering an upgrade to my 4,1-flashed-to-5,1 MacPro and am SHOCKED at how expensive these old video cards are. IDK if it's mining operations or what, but the $600 card in stalled here is scarcely available for less than $1500. And the rest of the Metal-compatible cards are no different. Though woefully underpowered by current standards, they still command $300-$1000 price premiums on all.

[@ShawnBrezny]

Looks interesting... would love to see a video on flashing that Radeon VII next. I am still using my 12-core 2009 5,1 with a flashed GTX 1080 card running High Sierra. I dual boot to Win 10 for gaming in Battlefield 1 running on high at 3440x1440. This machine still does really well and can can hit 60-80fps with this game on high settings. On the macOS side I mostly use this rig for Lightroom/Photoshop and Final cut Pro X work. I would like to get to Mojave or Catalina so I am interested in the path to Radeon VII and the Pixalas mod at some point later this year (assuming Apple doesn't add Nvidia support). Peace!

[@RobertDeloyd]

I find your videos entertaining and educational (I almost want to purchase a Mac Pro 5,1 2010) I am so glad I found and subscribed to your channel. Keep it up Luke!

[@jonascole9172]

Luke Miani is super cool and provides the best content available online.

[@rogerwilco2]

I've been running a Mac Pro 2010 with a Xeon 5690, MacVidCard GTX980, HyperX Predator PCIe SSDs, 32GB of RAM and I play a lot of games on it. All my games are on MacOS, except for GTA5, which I run bootcamp for. I do have a boot screen, but it can't run on Mojave only High Sierra, until Apple and Nvidia make up. MacVidCard's support has been really good. The GTX980 runs on the standard power in the case, no mods needed.

[@cyclonus01]

that's bad ass.. any benchmarks?

[@SoMiSongbird]

That Mac Pro is a dream, dude, good job

[@solidsn2011]

I know it’s been 11 months but I was wondering wether you would suggest an RX 5700 XT now instead of a Radeon VII that is discontinued...

[@khalidhalba2333]

i just bought this card for my mac mini (radeon 7). i m planning to use it for macOS since it's supported by default and also to do some gaming. my only problem is with the lack of support of machine learning frameworks like tensor flow which requires Nvidia's cuda cores.

[@akkuless]

Very interesting and entertaining videos about this upgraded mac pro. I hope it will not affect the prices on these old workhorses.

[@OnlyKelp]

“This is going to be the perfect macOS running Mac Pro” 3:42

[@DL-1]

What about OSX?

[@jbghumanjr]

Is it possible to simply plug the Radeon VII (directly into) a PSU or must the PSU be a Pixlas mod only? Love your videos & page, ps!!

[@captainfuture1981]

Anyone knows?

[@jbghumanjr]

@@captainfuture1981 I figured it out and it works great on my setup. Takes some configuring but ideally it's perfect if you want to install a GPU that's going to need more power than you MAC can give it yet don't want to do a pixalmod on your system. It's a pretty neato shortcut.

[@briandalmeida1722]

​@@jbghumanjr I have the pixlas mod and my Radeon VII is clearly on but gives no signal out from any of its ports. Any suggestions?

[@classicallpvault8251]

Should have been a bit more patient and gone with a 5700 XT... same performance, but a 200w TDP, so no need for auxilliary PCIe power delivery... still, it's amazing how relevant one of these machines still is, when properly upgraded and the Radeon VII is still a mighty graphics card.

[@bananaaaaaah]

coming up on 60k Subs!!!! Love your channel Btw!!

[@theodricaethelfrith]

God, imagine being able to buy a video card that isn't >€1000 + already used for a year or more for sh*tcoin mining. 2019 was the end of the halcyon days...

[@hangar4avs]

Great content as always Luke! But in this vid (and you might have changed your stance by now) but I have to disagree with you (to a certain degree) about the cpu bottleneck when running PCIe v3 cards. I run a Sonnet Fusion 4X card with two of the NVMe's in a RAID 0 config and you WILL get MINIMUM 5k R/W speeds from using it (in the 16X slot of course). CPU has nothing to do with it when the card needs no bifurcation supported MB. THAT is the key. Pricey card but worth every penny to me with my work. But thanks for being a cMP geek like me and for sharing your info.

[@PCGoblin]

Good video, looks like a pretty great upgrade. It would have been nice to see more than 2 synthetic benchmarks to see how it improved the system. Also the mac pro 4,1 and 5,1's do not have logic/mother boards, they have a backplane board(where you plug your drives and pcie cards into) and then they have the CPU board that plugs into the backplane board. Thanks for the video, ive been wondering about how to improve my own 5,1.

[@jefgirdler7232]

Your unbridled excitement for the System Report window was heartwarming. That's a HELL of a computer, my dude.

[@Telecasterland]

Hey Luke, I can verify that something went wrong with the Compute Benchmark in Geekbench 4. I can even pinpoint the vicinity of when that happened. On April 18th 2019 I received 176,083 on my Vega Frontier edition card in Open CL in MacOS Mojave. My highest score ever was 187,624 but that was on the previous MacOS back in Sept 2018. There is a little performance loss from Metal running the desktop in the background so I take that as acceptable. However on June 4rth I suddenly started seeing 136,285 and scores like it after one of the Mojave point updates. So thats 40,000 points lost. That is still the case as of today 7-18-19 as I just ran a test at 132,088. So I can 100% confirm that something is wrong with the calculation in Geekbench 4 that happened somewhere between April and June in point updates of MacOS. Note I boot Windows 10 (that took some effort) on a different drive and I receive 206,891 in OpenCL on the same machine. My highest score in Windows is 216,682 as different patches of Windows 10 and AMD drivers also impact the performance. Note your actually damaging your performance running 128 GB as that chipset was designed for Tripple Memory support. So you should be running 3 sticks of ram in each of the 2 packages. Thus 96GB of ram for full speed Tripple Channel Ram support. Try pulling slot 4 and 8 and doing some benchmarks in Tripple Channel mode and see what you think as your memory will switch from dual channel to triple channel mode. Your card should push 270,000+ in OpenCL in MacOS btw if that compute was running right. I just fired up Heaven Extreme just as you did and I also am running twin 3.46GHZ Xeons but with 96GB and a PCIE Samsung NVME for MacOS. I pulled 75.7 FPS with a 1907 Score in Heaven 4.0 Vega Frontier Edition. Update: One of the Catlina updates corrected geek-bench numeric plunge. I am now running the final edition of Catalina before Big Sur. I am also messing with Open core. Hit me up if you want to compare notes.

[@thebread1034]

I’d suggest putting a RX 580 in since it’s only like 150 to 200 bucks and it has 8 GB of storage. I got like 131k with Geekbench 4 on windows.

[@ncavis]

I just updated my 5,1 to a Vega 56 without the power supply mod and it has been awesome!

[@Sasfatu]

Hey Luke, thank you very much for this series. I really enjoyed your work and I can't wait to catch a 5,1 at ebay. I'd like to ask you for two things in the final video of this series: Can you do a real life comparison between the 5,1 and contemporary Mac? Let's say a FC Pro comparison? I would be also interested in a future outlook. Will this 5,1 be able to run Catalina? If not is there a way to make Catalina run on it anyhow? Thanks and cheers Oliver

[@MacSoundSolutions]

mcavidcards just announced they will be selling flashed RX 580s and more newer AMD cards to come. You will be able to send them a card to have them flash it for boot screen or buy direct from them. That being said I am currently stuck in High Sierra with my flashed 980ti.

[@r1ch4rdw4gn3r]

I get 130000 compute on an RX580 8GB on my 4,1 flashed to 5,1

[@MrRadicalMoves]

I bought my 5,1 Mac Pro last year when the prices were stupid low off a guy that thought his computer was broken (and I thought I could fix it... turned out to be a bad power cable... yeah... like the one that plugs into the wall) for a mear $500. It was a worthy investment as the computing power this thing has is just next level. That being said... I have a GTX1070 and have been looking to switching to a Radeon card because of the aforementioned driver issues. So these videos are very welcome to see. To anyone wondering... I did manage to get Mojave installed despite having a GTX1070... but there is no hardware acceleration so it is running off the original Radeon 5770 that's still in my machine... this makes using OSX almost impossible as it is so incredibly slow... I don't recommend doing this.

[@mrbibble5072]

My man. This is what we’ve all been waiting for, but the Best natively supported card in the machine and see what happens! You about got me ready to sell my maxed out 2015 5K iMac and build one of these.

[@lukemiani]

If I had to choose between the two, the Mac Pro definitely takes the cake. As long as you have a nice monitor to take advantage of it, these things are great content creation workhorses

[@mrbibble5072]

Luke Miani how awesome to pick up my phone and see that Luke personally responded to one of my comments! Been watching you for about a year, and you’ve definitely become one of my favorite KZbinr’s. I do content creation and gaming, teaching my little kids about all that stuff as well. And for years now I always buy old Macs for cheap, fix them up and flip them, or set my family up with awesome performance at a killer price. Your channel really shines a light on great options for people on a budget. Keep killing it, and I’ll try and get first on the June 20th final review! 😁

[@lukemiani]

@@mrbibble5072 Thanks for the support! I'm glad you enjoy!

[@enzymebp]

I have multiple 2010 Mac Pros and using the stock Radeon 5770 cards did not prevent me from installing Mojave. You lose Metal features, but Metal isn't a requirement.

[@edgarteran1366]

Luke great video very interesting how you pushed to the limits this great machine, would you consider to build a hackintosh? I mean sort of a competition for the new Mac Pro or the best next thing

[@DL-1]

How much money would this project cost today? How would it compare to a new Mac pro? Can you put stronger cpu's in it? Can you do 4k and or 8k editing with it? What would you do to make an older Mac Pro outperform a new Mac Pro?(great video. Thanks for your response if you have time.)

[@mariusberger3297]

Love the 12“ PowerBook in the background :D

[@ralphmiranda2077]

Put a VII in a Hackintosh, it's a beast. Got an RX580 for the MacPro, works out of the box.

[@frankthespank]

“We’ll do some games, some benchmarks” You sure are fun uncle Luke 🤓

[@jpphelps3663]

are there any more specific videos that show how you test & what software you use & how to do it? great videos. thanks

[@jordanallison7105]

Great video with explanations of possible hurdles

[@rbnjr]

I have decided to change out my nvidia titan x graphics card for the Radeon VII you installed so i can update the OS level to a more recent level., great videos!

[@Noah-fs2bq]

Love these vids bro

[@mi7hxn]

Now this was a great attempt Luke! Can you try installing Windows in this Mac Pro so you can do gaming??

[@SunnyAustria]

He showed Win10 :D

[@00700556]

would perform so much better

[@vallii3012]

The dual cpus kill gaming

[@razvanzot6297]

Video editing test 🙏

[@ManleyPower1]

Hey Luke! Basically brought a 2010 mac pro because I have been watching you video, so appropriate that, awesome videos! do you know if a MSI 970 gtx 4gb (white tiger) metal compatible? thanks

[@dangs4m230]

You're halfway to a hackintosh...

[@Gabe_A]

Great video series!

[@radiansinus8126]

The card looks sharp! I'd love to see how well it runs CS:GO

[@oscarcampbellhobson]

Does a vega 56 natively support high Sierra?

[@timdanaher]

Hi, Luke... great video! Can the Radeon VII be flashed to show the boot screen?

[@michaelrayguitartech]

Thanks for your videos my man. You definitely know how to get the best out of a Mac without having to buy the latest and greatest. Personally, Im looking a new Mac (DAW) for my music studio so it been hectic trying to figure out if it worth getting something new me used. It leaning in the base model iMac 27” but maybe I can get a used elder model it get more for the money.

[@PixelguardianGame]

THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!

[@WhataLoadofBull]

I've just installed a Radeon Pro VII, but I'm getting a loud high pitch squeal. Found this video, which led me to the psu mod. I'm going to do that and hope it fixes the squeal

[@drewrobertson6286]

Wonderful videos as always, with the Vega 56 or 64, do you need to perform the mod for the power on the gráficos card, or is it good to go?

[@anthonycampagna7732]

Hey Luke, great video! I'm currently doing this upgrade myself and found this really helpful. One question, do you have to have Mojave installed already or can you use the VII on High Sierra to upgrade to Mojave via recovery mode or something?

[@JanAndhisfiets]

Any major performance increases since this video got uploaded?

[@Onlypcgaming]

Thanks for the video! Bought a mac pro 5,1 2x 2.4 w/ 16 gigs of ram from a local guy on craigslist recently for $400. Tonight, bought 2 x5690 for $223 and spent $25 on amazon for the hex tool, thermopaste, and some cleaner. Once the CPUs are upgraded, next project is the GPU. I already have a 1080 but since Apple is not allowing Nvidia to release drivers for Mac OSx 10.14, thinking of switching over to AMD card. We know 10.15 will not be supported on 5,1 even tho ppl are able to mod the beta to run. Wonder if I should wait on a GPU to see what will be supported in 10.15. If I can't wait, looking at a Radeon VII or Vega 64.

[@PierreBurnaugh]

SaltyT3xan, I’m thinking about getting a MP2010 and upgrading. So the 2x5690 is the CPU, is that what will make the machine be able to run current OS like Catalina and should I be concerned about this as long as I can run the programs I use for photo and music? My 2011 iMac isn’t supported by Catalina and the graphics card just went out (notorious on this model). I don’t care about Catalina but should I? I’m not a gamer or builder hobbyist just kind of confused. I see the guy Luke doesn’t answer most questions so thought I reach out to a commentator or two.

[@visuellemontage]

Thanks for sharing your experiences about maxing out a MacPro! As a long term mac user, one of my main reasons using this brand is mainly because of reliability. Working in media professionally, the need to meet deadlines is crucial; therefore a mac never let me down ever the last 20 years! How reliably is your maxed out MacPro, what would you say? Would you trust your system working on a very important project with a tough deadline, where a greater amount of money (or better responsibility!) is involved? (I am thinking e.g. about the way getting power to your Radeon VII, which I read seems not healthy damaging the wires?!) How would you rate your system on a "reliability scale"?

[@RandomTreeProductions]

Think you could do a video about your modded PSU? Don’t think I’ve ever seen good videos on it before in the past.

[@lukemiani]

Hrutkay Mods has a good video, and House of Moth has a great step by step. Just Google ‘Pixlas mid’ and it’ll be the first result

[@10veryintelligentlevels35]

I have the same card with in eGPU with MacBook Pro. Very solid. But in your system the CPU can hold it back sometimes. You should use triple channel memory for an extra 5% system performance. Don't waste time with Geekbench on the Mac. They are giving lower and lower scores nearly every month. I think Geekbench is reducing the scores on the server side. Windows version of Unigene uses Direct X. Mac version uses old OpenGL. Another waste of time benchmark. Only use optimised Metal tests.

[@MarcoASeveriano]

I like these videos I even watch all the ads without skipping

[@molinkie]

So, no boot screen, but no startup chime either?

[@AERoVALKYRiE]

I love this kind of projects. please make more.

[@jbghumanjr]

I have the (exact) same setup as this. Can you give your expert advice and tell me if it's worth going with CATALINA vs MOJAVE? Like, does CATALINA enable more core usage or speed up the card? I'm rendering / exporting with Premier Pro so anything that'll push my 5'1 into even higher power, I'll do. But can't seem to find any takes on this online. Love your videos ps!! (also, is there faster RAM to use in this set up or is the 13333MHz the fastest there is?) Thank you sooooo much for helping us like you do!!!

[@briandalmeida1722]

Did you end up figuring this out? I mean putting in the Radeon VII? I have the pixlas mod and my Radeon is clearly on but gives no signal out from any of its ports.

[@ellag8885]

The bottom line, is this a more economical option then buying a 2015 and newer machine?

[@nickk6109]

Compute would be affected by the PCI and it's also DDR3 RAM which may slow down texture uploads. The biggest issue is definitely the immaturity of the drivers. Looking at upgrading to a Mini with 32GB with an R7 in the eGPU (it's bottleneck is the TB3). The double floating point performance of the R7 blows away the Vega series.

[@robertoaguiluz7350]

Heya! thanks for the upload, out of curiosity i ran a geekbench and got 210609 OpenCL Score, using a 1080ti, 32 RAM, one x5690 and High Sierra.

[@stevesteve8098]

you should take out 2 ram boards from your system... if every ram slot is filled , your computer actually accesses ram slower. The last 2 slots are cross linked to hte other ram, so it reduced the ram band width....

[@whitHD1]

I like this idea, but it gets to the point where the RAM/Motherboard are maxed out. Just put a VEGA 64 in my 2010, but only increased scores by 26% over my old Nitro Rx 580. I was expecting more to be honest, but still added a boost to FCPX rendering. With no support in Catalina, I bet my 2010 will be dropped in next FC update. 9 years has been a very good run.

[@80-80.]

This machine is like a tribute to Steve Jobs

[@jstrangm]

I’m really intrigued by your terrific videos! I realize this is a little different your build but that being said I’m building a humble pie, 2,1 Mac Pro and want to find better processors and an additional video card to run three monitors. I currently have32g of ram (max?) …. Thanks in advance for anything you can offer in terms advice or pointers. Cheers, Jeff

[@Chris-pd2uv]

Thanks a lot for your precious video. Question, Henrique i upgrades like this , i must Change the Ram too, and which measure of gb?

[@LastStarfighterAJ]

Awesome mod. I have one of this gen Mac Pro and I’m torn between using a patcher to upgrade or just buying an i7 Mac Mini which supposed has better cpu performance....

[@TechnoLadz]

If you’re still on the edge I’d recommend getting the i7 Mac Mini and then getting a eGPU

[@JasonChurch1992]

Luke, I have the exact setup (CPUs, RAM, NVMne boot drive). Except I have a RX Vega 64 FE. Love to compare score with you. Thanks! Love your videos... big reason I got into the Mac Pro 5,1.