I Supercharged This Old Mac for AAA Gaming

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I recently bought this 14 year old Mac Pro 5,1 from eBay. It’s tricked out with modern graphics, SSD storage and 48 *gigabytes* of RAM. Let’s check it out!

0:00 Introduction
0:18 Mac Pro Passion
1:17 An eBay Find
1:25 Tech Specs
2:12 Baseline Performance Tests
3:01 Let's Upgrade!
4:52 Boosted Performance
5:34 Large Language Models
6:18 A Borderlands Blunder
6:40 A New GPU!
7:28 GPU Installation
8:14 Testing AAA Games
8:55 Apple Arcade
9:21 Windows 11 for PC Gaming
10:01 Cyberpunk 2077
11:12 Closing Thoughts



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