With a CPU that's actually capable of handling some real work, let's upgrade your SSD. So with that, we've got a one terabyte SSD. I think it's time to see if this thing actually works. Matt, would you like to do the honors? Yeah! Oh, it'd help to take off my Powered By EVGA. Nah, it's fine, it's powered by EVA. Oh! See a little RGB going here? Yeah. Hey, it works!

There you go! Alright. So we go up to about this Mac. We see, there you go. Two 3-gigahertz six-core Intel Xeons. Hey, 64 gigs, okay cool. So all of our eight gigs are showing up. So for reference, we're going from a quad-core Xeon all the way up to a pair of six-core CPUs and we're going from eight gigs to 64 gigs of RAM.

Now Geekbench I think should show a fairly substantial difference, especially in the multicore. 27,734, 20,000 on the multicore! So single core obviously is not that impressive. I mean, it's essentially a 10-year-old processor. But 20,000 on the multicore for a 2010 system. That's ridiculous.

So for reference, before the upgrade, the single core was 2,175 and the multicore was 7,600. Wow, that is a huge difference. Next up, we have Cinebench. Now not only will this test the CPU but I'm also curious to see how much higher the GPU score is. Especially when you consider that this started out with a 5770. I mean, a 580's going to be five, six times faster, eight times the memory. I mean, it's a massive, massive difference.

So we're going from 43 to 59. That's not that good. Oh dude, look at that! I never get tired of seeing like a million threads spin up for Cinebench. So you know what's crazy with this? It's not actually that expensive when you consider it, right?

I mean, I've seen the original chassis go anywhere from 250 to about 450. The six-core CPUs you can get for like 180, which is bananas how cheap that is. And then the 580s I've seen for 175 brand new. So realistically, all of the upgrades we've done to this system are about $1,000. Maybe a little bit more considering that we have the one, well okay, the 14 terabyte drive is like 500.

That's overkill. We're gonna ignore that part of it. To really put this to the test, we have our resident editing man, Jimmy Champagne. That's me! I'm here. So we are editing off of an external SSD. So we're using this little Samsung T5 which is plugged into Matt's USPC card.

So that's pretty standard. Yeah, which is what we edit all of our videos on. But it seems to be fine. So now we're gonna try and sync the footage, see how quick that goes. That went as quick as it does on the iMac Pro. We'll do better quality. This is unrendered 4K pro-res right now.

Oh, we're getting your texts. Uh oh, this is bad. Is this a woman? (laughing) Oo, Matt got quiet fast. Background render is a little slower than the iMac Pro. Wait, so basically, you have a 10-core iMac. Yeah. Which is obviously faster.

But when you compare it to something like a MacBook or an iMac, this is still more powerful. I'd say it's noticeably faster than the MacBook but noticeable slower than the iMac Pro. So it's falling somewhere between. Which is pretty impressive for a nine-year-old desktop which we just Frankenstein-ed together with like less than $1,000 worth of products.

So that my friends is building the ultimate Matt Pro. For something that's this old, the amount of power we were able to get especially considering the price is super, super impressive. So if you'll excuse me, I'm going to buy a lot more of these and have some fun. That actually sounded really ominous, like as if I'm going to build some super computer out of Mac Pros.

I'm actually not going to buy any more of these.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin!And today it is time toupgrade Matt's 2010 Mac Pro?- Yeah, 2010.- Okay so, Matt has had anunfortunate incident recentlyin that his dog broke his iMac screen.So, to hook him up, we'regonna do a little bitof a project and see whatwe can actually upgradewith his original Mac Pro.Also, if you guys don'tknow Matt, he's the onewho runs This Is and makesfun of me on Mystery Tech.- It's true.- This is not a stock 2010 Mac Pro, right?It still works right now,but you wanna basicallysee if you can get it alittle bit less garbage?- Yeah, like, I've donesome modifications with it.These are all USB two and there's no wayto really change that.So then I needed USB three,so I got this card here,which has worked really well for mebut it needed dedicated power.It wouldn't run off the PC IE.- Wait, so did you,this came with an optical drive right?- It has two optical bays.The door doesn't like to close.(laughing)Turns out, there's nothingmeant to be right here.- So you've upgraded this several timesover the years thatyou've owned the Mac Pro.- Yes.- So what areyou doing with the Mac Proonce we're done rebuilding it?- So I do video editing.- When was the last time you cleaned this?There's literally like an inch of duston your graphics card.- Probably never.- Woo!- This was an off road, uh.- Off road?- Yeah, so when I--- So actually, you travel with this?- Yeah.- So can you run me throughthe spec of this guy?So this is 2010, is it a quad core?- It is a quad core,I think 2.6 gigahertz Xeon.- The first thing is,we should upgrade the CPU.If you're rocking the quad core,this goes up to, what isit, like 10 cores, 12 cores?- It can do 12 cores maximum.- You've already got the hard drives.I think maybe we just swap out this SSDfor something that's justa little bit more modern,a little bit quicker.So we've got a task here.So I think the next step isI need to do some googlingand find some partsand let's see if we canget this upgraded and back to 2019 specs.So it has been about, what, two weeks now?- Two weeks.- And we have everything we needfor the ultimate Mac Pro.- Matt Pro.- The Matt Pro, apologies.So, the way that the Mac Pro works,is that while you can guy the CPUs,you can also buy the entire tray,which essentially is the motherboard.- We could have gone to a six corewith a little bit better clock speed,but the real upgrade isgoing to the dual socket.- Yes, so essentially what we have hereare a pair of six core processors.Now it might not sound super impressive,thank you very much,in this sort of modern era where we have,you know, what, 32 cores in Threadripper,but 12 cores was a lot of power,especially for 2010.One of the interesting things about thisis that the entire upgradewas actually not that expensive.So we were able to get the tray,which of course, is the motherboard,as well as the two CPUsfor a little bit over $500.Now this is like a what?Like a $6500 configwhen it first came out?- Yeah, and that's not includingthe memory we got with it.- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.So we also had to get, wegot 64 gigs as you can seeby my giant pile of dents here.I mean I guess you do have the limitationthat single thread isprobably not gonna besuper impressive, butwhat we're using it foris primarily like editing.- I do play the occasional game on it.- Well you'lldefinitely be able to game.- Oh yeah, I love my Civilization.- Boom, so with that,we have upgraded from aquad core to a 12 core.And this entire setup with the new tray,the dual CPUs, the 64 gigs of RAM,still cost us only about $700,which obviously is a fair bit,but considering that ifyou would have bought thisin 2010, it would have beenat least 10 times that.Really not a bad upgrade.- So we went with a RX 580 AMD card.This is pretty much the maximumthat the system can handle.- This is the original connector.It's a pair of six pins.- Correct.- And you've adaptedthe six to an eight, which.- Already is bad.- Alright, let's pull the 760 out.So this is actually builtin support for a longer CPU.- Mm hmm, yes.- Oh, interesting.Actually, have we even measuredto see if the Strix card will fit?- On paper.I mean, it, I eyeballed it.- It'll be fine.- It looked like it'll be.- It'll be fine.Oh we didn't clean this out.Why is there already a 14terabyte hard drive in here?- I got excited.- Well okay then, so apparently,Matt's stealing company propertyand installing a 14 terabyte hard drivein his Mac Pro.- So when we started this project,it was running Sierra.And so we wanted to go to Mojavebecause we needed that forthe graphics card support.But it wouldn't let us upgrade ituntil we upgraded thefirmware of the motherboard.But there's a fun littleproblem with that,is the only way to update the firmwareis if you have theoriginal EFI graphics card.So we found a guy in townwho had one and let us borrow hisjust to update the firmware.You're covered in dust right now.- I know!Why didn't you clean your dirty computer?- I thought that's what you were doing.- No, I'm upgrading it withlike 12 cores and stuff!I'm not cleaning.Do I look like a cleaning service?- Full service, man.- What, that's (mumbling).So with that, we have our 12 core CPU,16 gigs of RAM, and our RX 580.Next, let's upgrade your SSD.So with that, we'vegot a one terabyte SSD.I think it's time to see ifthis thing actually works.Matt, would you like to do the honors?- Yeah!Oh, it'd help to takeoff my Powered By EVGA.- Nah, it's fine, it's fine,it's powered by EVA.Oh!- See a little RGB going here?- Yeah.- Hey, it works!- There you go!Alright.So we go up to about this mac.We see, there you go.Two three gigahertz six core intel Xeons.Hey, 64 gigs, okay cool.So all of our eight gigdems are showing up.So for reference, we'regoing from a quad core Xeonall the way up to a pair of six core CPUsand we're going from eightgigs to 64 gigs of RAM.Now Geekbench I think should showa fairly substantial difference,especially in the multicore.2734, 20,000 on the multicore!So single core obviouslyis not that impressive.I mean, it's essentiallya 10 year old processor.But 20,000 on the multicorefor a 2010 system.That's ridiculous.- So for reference, before the upgrade,the single core was 2175and the multicore was 7600.- Wow, that is a huge difference.Next up, we have Cinebench.Now not only will this test the CPU,but I'm also curiousto see how much higherthe GPU score is.So, especially when you considerthat this started out with a 5770.I mean, a 580's going to be,five, six times faster,eight times the memory.I mean, it's a massive,massive difference.So we're going from 43 to 59.That's not that good.Oh dude, look at that!I never get tired of seeinglike a million threadspin up for Cinebench.So you know what's crazy with this?It's not actually that expensivewhen you consider it, right?So what do you think it would have costto first of all buy youroriginal Mac Pro chassisand just do the tray upgradewith the memory and stuff?- I mean, I've see the original chassisgo anywhere from 250 to about 450.The six core CPUs youcan get for like 180,which is bananas how cheap that is.And then the 580s I'veseen for 175 brand new.- So, realistically, all of the upgradeswe've done to thissystem are about $1,000.Maybe a little bit moreconsidering that we have the one,well okay, the 14 terabytedrive is like $500.- That's overkill.- We're gonna ignore that part of it.To really put this to the test,we have our resident editingman, Jimmy Champagne.- That's me!I'm here.- So we are editingoff of an external SSD.So we're using this little Samsung T5which is plugged into Matt's USPC card.- So that's pretty standard.- Yeah, which is what weedit all of our videos on.But it seems to be fine.- So now we're gonna tryand sync the footage,see how quick that goes.That went as quick asit does on the iMac Pro.We'll do better quality.- This is unrendered 4k pro res right now.Oh, we're getting your texts.Uh oh, this is bad.- Is this a woman?(laughing)- Oo, Matt got quiet fast.- Backgroundrender is a little slowerthan the iMac Pro.- Wait, so basically,you have a 10 core iMac.- Yeah.- Which is obviously faster.But when you compare thisto something like a MacBookor an iMac, this is still more powerful.- I'd say it's noticeablyfaster than the MacBook,but noticeable slower than the iMac Pro.So it's falling somewhere between.- Which is pretty impressivefor a nine year olddesktop which we justFrankensteined togetherwith like less than$1,000 worth of products.So that my friends is buildingthe ultimate Matt Pro.For something that's this old,the amount of power we were able to get,especially considering the priceis super, super impressive.So if you'll excuse me,I'm going to buy a lot moreof these and have some fun.That actually sounded really ominous,like as if I'm gonnabuild some super computerout of Mac Pros.I'm actually not gonnabuy any more of these.- Aw.