All right
So today we're gonna be bringing the Mac Pro up to date for Mac OS Mojave
So it's gonna be a less formal video. I don't have my normal camera set up already, but let's jump right in
Alright, so this is my
2009 4 comma 1 Mac Pro that I upgraded the firmware to 5 comma 1 and
Basically turn this into a budget editing machine. So this thing has a 6 cores ian at 3 gigahertz
3.33 actually as well as 16 gigs of ram bunch of hard drives
So the graphics card that I put in this machine is an r9 380 and I just started having issues with this card
Now what's really strange about this is that I only started
experiencing these issues
after I updated the computer so you can see we've got all to all sorts of graphical distortion going on here the
screen is
it apparently is a responsive right now, but
It kind of goes in and out. Sometimes it crashes while I'm trying to login
I haven't successfully logged in with the new upgraded graphics card with the r9 380
Plugged in so we'll see if it logs in right now
But you can see more graphical distortions the computers frozen of the screen just flickered
now ordinarily I would think well this this is pretty emblematic of
graphics card failure that's you know
Literally textbook examples of what happens when you have kernel panics graphics card failure that sort of thing
However, in this particular case, I know that that is not true because I have bootcamp installed on this machine and the computer runs flawlessly
with boot camp running
Yes, so a couple of minutes has passed and we appear to be past the login screen
Which is further than I've ever really gotten since I updated this computer, but we still aren't actually in
so
this is not something that I really know how to fix and
It also brought up the more
important issue at least in my book of
Future support for machine with Mac OS Mojave these older Mac pros are still supported
However, they do need specific graphics cards. The the stock graphics cards on this the 2009 as well as the
2010 and 12 that have
5770 in them are
Not metal supported so I don't think they're gonna run
Mojave on them at least without a patch er now with all that in mind. I went on eBay and I bought this AMD rx
560 because the 560 is
Definitely going to be supported. This is the same GPU family that Apple uses in the IMAX. They have the Radeon Pro 5
75 80 the MacBook Pros also use Radeon pros which are basically the same
GPU die they're just slightly different because they have the Radeon Pro instead of the rx but
Because these are pretty much the same cards that are used in
currently sold Mac's they work out of the box in the Mac Pro and they will also support metal because the
Graphics cards aren't the same essentially as the Radeon pros. Additionally you can get these used on Amazon for around
$100 which is a really good deal and actually less than the r9 380
That's in there
Goes for so the r9 380 was in there because I already had it and I didn't want to go out and buy another
Card, if I had one that worked just fine, but of course now it is not working just fine
So we're gonna go ahead and put this in the Mac Pro and see how that does
Alright, so we're just gonna go ahead and slap this card in
Apologies for the camera quality here. This is more of an informal video
So I didn't want to pull out all of my camera equipment, but you can see
Just how easy it is to replace these graphics cards
All you have to do is slide this little notch here and slides over that'll unbolt
Whatever is in the PCI ports now the r9 380 that I have here
Wow, that's really hot considering that. I just, you know, turn the computer on and that's it
So that's not great
anyway
you can see that I actually had to put two power adapters for this a
graphics card because it requires external power the
560 does not require that it just runs off of the PCIe slot so I can remove these and it'll also
reduce the power draw of this computer, which is good because
The power supplies in these Mac Pro's are not that great and the r9 380 is a pretty power hungry card
so I'm not too broken up about this being a
slightly less
Powerful card than the 380 the 380 is ever so slightly more
Powerful, even though it's an older card
It's not it's not a perfect comparison and the 560 does excel in some areas
but for right now, I just want to be convenience and the out-of-the-box support that this thing has
These little brackets are really annoying to take out. Well, whatever. I'm just pulling it down. Oh
It's a big boy these these things take up a lot of space
also, a lot of heat comes out of that card this this computer does get pretty toasty and as you can see, especially with three
Normal desktop hard drives. There's not too much space in here. So hopefully the 560 will run a little cooler uses less power
It's got some benefits to it
Don't need these power cords anymore
Ok, so let's grab our new card and
I'm doing this one-handed which is not ideal
alright
So new card is in here as you can see it takes up a lot less space than the old card and you know
Honestly, this this isn't my favorite design for the heat shroud
it's kind of the MSI's standard that that there's some 10 80s that use this same exact cooler design and
The problem at least for me. Is that look how tall this thing is. I mean, this is a humongous card
It's really long and it's really tall which makes it really hard to work with and tight spaces
But you know, whatever it does what it does
Anyway, now we're back here. We're just gonna lock that in place and I'll just tighten some of those thumb screws
But yeah, I mean you can see I really didn't use any tools or fancy equipment to get this done
It really is so easy and effortless to work on his machines
Uh, I wish that you could buy a more modern Mac Pro that has this kind of upgrade ability
Holy crap. Apple come back. Come on
Give us one of these
And we are ready to go let's turn this thing on
Hopefully it should just be as easy as that
Put those off to the side and I'm gonna go get this thing pull out back in. Alright, so now that we have our
Cables plugged into the monitor we're gonna go ahead and turn it on
now as far as I know we should not have a boot screen because most of the time when you use
Custom graphics cards, even if they're natively supported. You're not gonna get that Mac OS boot screen, but we'll see what happens
And looks like we are in I don't see any graphical distortion so we should be good to go
Logging in and it logs in absolutely fine. No problem whatsoever this I mean this is why I love these things
It's just so easy. Look at that Radeon
rx5
64 gigabytes. It just works. I mean you don't have to do anything. It's so easy. Oh, this is why I love these computers
They're just so great
So I guess we could let's just run a benchmark. Shall we let's fire up csgo see how it runs steam is not optimized
Yeah, I don't care. Alright, so here I am in csgo running at about a hundred and ten hundred and forty fps
Yeah, we're pretty much pushing the limit here
Now one of the things that you'll notice is there are some like weird flickering artefacts on the screen
this is something I want to point out because
This is not a graphics card issue. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Graphics card Oh No, okay
Well, I died there. But either way there's there's nothing wrong with the graphics card
sometimes
For whatever reason, I'm not entirely sure why there can be these sort of graphical issues
usually all you have to do is restart the computer or start it up with the
The standard the stock GPU and then switch to this one
But just be aware that there are some wrinkles when you install your own graphics card. It doesn't run flawlessly
However, you know once I do that, all I have to do is really restart the computer or something along those lines
We are still getting a pretty solid over a hundred FPS
pretty much
Most of the time so this is definitely very playable
And one of the other things I want to point out is I went into the system
Information graphics and displays and looked at the RX 560 and I look down here and it has metal supported
so that means that this GPU is confirmed to work in Mac OS moma B because that's what the
requirements States
So this will run Mac OS Mojave
Which means this nine year old Mac Pro is now fully supported in the latest operating system
With a hundred dollar graphics card that you'd probably want to do
Anyway, if you just had this computer with the GT 120, which is garbage, so that's pretty incredible
I'm very happy about this and I will keep you guys updated so
You know, this video was kind of informal obviously because I'm not appearing on camera and I'm just filming with my phone
But you guys told me in my welcome back video that you wanted to see more of just like the goings on behind the scenes
And what I'm doing on a day to day basis, and this is an example of that
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