This Trash Can Mac Pro Was Cutting Edge in 2013, Can It Run Games & EMUs In 2023?

The trash can Shaped Mac Pro was cutting edge tech in 2013 but how does it hold up in 2023? In this video we see how well the 6 core Mac Pro handles PC gaming and emulation. We have Windows 10 running on the Mac Pro and we test out games like Injustice 2, God of war, the Witcher 3 and more. And of corse we need some emulators so PPSSPP is used for PSP, PCSX2 for PS2 and Dolphin for Wii emulation on the Mac Pro shaped like a trash can.

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00:00 Introduction
00:21 overview
01:52 Trash Can Mac Pro Specs
03:16 Overall Windows 10 Boot camp performance
04:04 benchmarks
04:39 Injustice 2
05:12 GTA 5
05:42 Witcher 3
06:06 Street Fighter 5
06:33 God Of War
07:02 PSP emulation PPSSPP
07:28 PS2 EMulation PCSX2
08:01 Wii Dolphin Emulator
08:27 Final Thoughts

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[FuelTastesBad]

Would love to see Steam OS on this. I mean it kind of looks like one of those early 2000s concept console designs, so a console-like OS would be quite fitting.

[srvuk]

I remember seeing one of these in the corner of an office and the way it was positioned it actually looked just like a bin. So much so that one of the people coming to a meeting threw his polystyrene coffee cup into it. The cup was not empty!

[moonpost]

I turned mine into a headless server using Docker and it's running three different tools 24/7 with no noise and pretty low power.

[Ancient_West]

I can picture my kids using this as an actual trashcan.

[JeremyPeeples]

It's fun tinkering with old Macs to see what kind of performance you can get. I bought a 2012 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and a 516GB SSD and was surprised at how well it ran whatever I threw at it.

[rbus]

Bought one of these a few months ago, 64GB RAM & 12-core Xeon, for $189 on eBay — been my main workhorse system since and as an ollama server host I can access from anywhere via phone. Rock solid performance, never makes a sound, excellent audio drivers for low latency FL Studio use.

[pum]

I'd love for you to try and game on other mac computers like this, like the mac pro 4, 1 and 5, 1, retina display macs from 2012 with an igpu, and maybe even use linux on them as well

[ptdavidson]

Used one of these for years at a professional post house. Not the fastest but super stable. Had the D700’s. I still have one and use it for encoding super low priority stuff. Just set the encodes and let it go. Not fast by any means but quiet. And if your like me and have a lot of older legacy thunderbolt raid arrays and capture cards in nice to have those ports.

[shadw_a]

i waited for this longer than u can imagine

[stevenbaumann]

Cool video I always like seeing old tech reviews because it shows that just because its old doesn't mean its no good anymore.

[acwbit]

Use custom GPU drivers that may fix the issues you’re having

[exodous]

My brother got one of these and used it for two years before replacing it with a notebook that was twice the specs for a lot less. They do look really cool but man they were pricy. I kinda wish they would make a trashcan mac mini, it does look really cool but the new apple chips don't need what this was designed for, cooling.

[DerekDavis]

Mac Pro trashcan with AMD graphics was a good gaming machine, back in the day.

Today, Mac Studio or Mac Pro with M2 processor are terrible for gaming! And today, it is impossible to
use an AMD or NVidia graphics card on a Mac with M2 Ultra.

Mac Studio: over $5000 USD
Mac Pro: over $8000 USD

Both machines are dead-end, no upgrades. Disposable computers.

[AlexandreLollini]

I have one with a 150w Xeon E5 2687W V2 (8 cores but higher clock speed turbo sustained) and it works very well. I use mac os Mojave 10.14.6 I use it to maintain compatibility with some older mac apps. It's 64gb ram and 2tb OWC Aura Pro X2. I works fully with full icloud support. It's the ideal bridge machine between older and newer machines. The M2 pro mac mini would destroy it very much but it can not run Mojave. I wonder if the D700 is much of a difference ? the Mac Pro 2013 trashcan is a collector machine in my mind. Maintenance requires re-paste of the CPU every 5 years.

[johncnorris]

I usually find experimenting with old hardware kind of fun especially when it was something I noticed but couldn't afford back in the day. With Apple hardware I'm still left a little blah because of an experience I had when I went to an Apple store to buy a high-end workstation for video editing and the Apple Dude wouldn't let me practice edit some raw high-def video from a DVD I brought in. He said, "It wouldn't be a fair test of the computer" and couldn't let me evaluate whether I should spend a lot more for a Mac or just build a PC. Thanks for steering me away from that cult I say now!

[victorfigueroa]

I think you could use an egpu on the Mac if I'm not mistaken.

[RedSoul]

I would be interested in using one of these as a pfsense firewall or as a plain media server since it has dual gigabit ports, and cheap parts like DDR3.

[teddym]

If you want a good intel mac the best overall was the imac pro with vega 64 or 64x. The 10 core model specifically as it maintains boost clock without thermal throttle, 4ghz on all 10 cores in windows. It still works great in OS X and RPCS3, Switch emu, all of it works perfectly upscaled to 1440P or more.

[Akg.Rachet]

Ngl i might actually buy this pc to switch it up cuz my dell alienware aurora r6 legit just died on me so i wanna switch it up perhaps try a solid pc that can run MacOS and windows and i am quite impressed that it can run god of war

[eobet]

1:10 what’s the USB bootable OS mention here? I can’t make it out and neither can the closed captions…