1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:04,520 Every so often, and I hate to admit it, 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,420 even I run into some kind of an issue 3 00:00:07,420 --> 00:00:12,000 where the only viable solution is to use a Mac. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,220 In my case, it was that I was trying to work on a review 5 00:00:15,220 --> 00:00:18,360 of this archival tape storage backup system 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,080 and the Windows software experience was, 7 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:26,300 to put it as politically correctly as I can, awful. 8 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:30,680 So my solution, some kind of Mac machine 9 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,180 with 10 gigabit networking 10 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:34,180 and getting that going on the MacBook Pro 11 00:00:34,180 --> 00:00:35,060 wasn't gonna be a thing 12 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:37,140 because even though I found a network card 13 00:00:37,140 --> 00:00:39,360 with literally the exact same chipset 14 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,260 that is in the iMac Pro 15 00:00:41,260 --> 00:00:43,120 and plugged it into an external enclosure, 16 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,380 macOS just wouldn't pick it up 17 00:00:44,380 --> 00:00:47,560 because whatever, you Linus. 18 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,700 So I dug the iMac Pro out and then I went, 19 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:51,960 oh right, the whole reason we were opening 20 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,060 this stupid thing up in the first place 21 00:00:54,060 --> 00:00:56,100 was that iFixit sponsored us 22 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,220 to do a video on how to upgrade it. 23 00:00:59,220 --> 00:01:02,080 So I guess that's what we're gonna do. 24 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,340 We're gonna go from eight cores and 32 gigs of RAM 25 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:10,340 to theoretically 128 gigs of RAM and 18 cores, 26 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,140 all while saving $1,000. 27 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:16,320 Sounds pretty good, right? 28 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:25,380 Let's hope it works. 29 00:01:25,380 --> 00:01:26,800 Oh, you cut audio as well? 30 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:27,640 I did not cut audio. 31 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,480 You didn't cut audio? 32 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,320 No. 33 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:30,480 Okay, sorry, I don't think I have to re-sync. 34 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,440 But he did cut the audio. 35 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,080 So it's not gonna sound very good. 36 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,400 Sorry about that. 37 00:01:40,660 --> 00:01:43,360 Step one of any upgrade is to run some benchmarks 38 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,460 to establish a baseline. 39 00:01:45,460 --> 00:01:47,180 Oh, actually, no, hey, it's done. 40 00:01:47,180 --> 00:01:50,440 All right, so this gives us some idea of where we're starting. 41 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,120 Here's our 32 gigs of RAM. 42 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,760 We've got a Xeon W2140B. 43 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,420 So this is fairly similar, 44 00:01:58,420 --> 00:02:02,040 although not exactly the same as the 2145 45 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,500 that's worth about $1,100. 46 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,480 So our base iMac Pro upgraded 47 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,160 compared to buying a top-of-the-line model 48 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,600 from Apple in the first place 49 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,920 gives us a difference of about $250. 50 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:15,560 And we're still gonna have an eight-core processor 51 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,660 and 32 gigs of RAM to flip on Craigslist. 52 00:02:17,660 --> 00:02:19,260 We'll be using our iFixit kit 53 00:02:19,260 --> 00:02:21,920 along with one of their guides to complete our upgrade, 54 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:23,620 starting with cutting the adhesive 55 00:02:23,620 --> 00:02:25,160 around the edge of the display 56 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,540 and disconnecting the three ribbon cables 57 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:34,640 before carefully putting it aside. 58 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,300 And all without breaking it. 59 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:38,840 Take that, Anthony. 60 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:39,680 That's okay. 61 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,230 He knows what he did. 62 00:02:41,230 --> 00:02:45,070 First order of business is we remove the fan. 63 00:02:45,070 --> 00:02:50,600 You just need to turn them counterclockwise 64 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,000 until they start making that noise. 65 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,040 And they're gonna be retained 66 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,100 by the little rubber washers that are in there. 67 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:56,900 Now there's two little connectors here. 68 00:02:56,900 --> 00:02:58,820 One right there, one right there. 69 00:02:58,820 --> 00:03:03,430 Those power the fans and you can just pull these out. 70 00:03:03,430 --> 00:03:05,830 Be very careful around this power supply. 71 00:03:05,830 --> 00:03:09,040 No touching. 72 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:10,780 You could actually die. 73 00:03:10,780 --> 00:03:13,500 Next, we're gonna pull out Apple's excellent Wi-Fi card. 74 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:14,840 And we're gonna stash this out. 75 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,180 Stash those screws, 76 00:03:16,180 --> 00:03:20,030 along with this handy dandy little shield right about there. 77 00:03:20,030 --> 00:03:21,170 Is that it? 78 00:03:21,170 --> 00:03:25,140 Now all we gotta do is pull some of these other cables out 79 00:03:25,140 --> 00:03:27,200 and their covers. 80 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,960 And we can go ahead and pull this board out. 81 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,440 And all these little antenna connectors. 82 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,380 These guys are gonna come off too. 83 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:38,740 These are really fragile. 84 00:03:38,740 --> 00:03:40,200 RF shield or something down there. 85 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:41,780 That's getting in my way. 86 00:03:41,780 --> 00:03:43,800 I wonder if I could make my life easier 87 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,040 by making it temporarily much harder. 88 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:47,730 Let's pull this speaker out. 89 00:03:47,730 --> 00:03:49,130 This is kind of a do as I say, not as I do moment. 90 00:03:49,130 --> 00:03:57,160 We're having right now. 91 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,600 Boards out and I didn't get zapped. 92 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,660 So now that we've got this opened up for our upgrade, 93 00:04:01,660 --> 00:04:05,280 we can talk about what exactly in the iMac Pro is upgradable 94 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,500 because frankly, it's not much. 95 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:09,480 Over the years, Apple has gone from 96 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,860 with the original Mac Pro being very upgradable, 97 00:04:12,860 --> 00:04:17,860 PCI Express cards, CPUs, GPUs, RAM, storage, 98 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,600 pretty much everything, just like a normal tower, 99 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,060 to the new Mac Pro, the trashcan Mac Pro 100 00:04:24,060 --> 00:04:25,120 that theoretically had upgrades. 101 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:26,520 Upgradable GPUs, but I don't know 102 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,080 if they ever actually followed up with anything newer. 103 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,860 Had upgradable RAM and had upgradable CPU and storage 104 00:04:32,860 --> 00:04:34,920 if you were willing to put a lot of work into it, 105 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,100 to this iMac Pro where even, 106 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:42,820 so the GPU is actually baked right into the motherboard here. 107 00:04:42,820 --> 00:04:44,680 So that's where our Vega 56 is. 108 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,240 So that will not be upgradable to the storage. 109 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,460 So the storage theoretically can be pulled off and replaced, 110 00:04:51,460 --> 00:04:54,880 but because of this T2 encryption chip is actually tied 111 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,760 into the motherboard in such a way that 112 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,140 if you swapped them out, it wouldn't work. 113 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:05,140 And pretty much only the CPU and RAM are upgradable. 114 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,200 And I mean, the CPU is even a theoretical one. 115 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,620 I don't know if anyone has actually done a CPU swap on it yet. 116 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:15,560 It's possible that they've even locked out the BIOS. 117 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,900 So I'm not a hundred percent certain 118 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:20,300 if that aspect of this upgrade is going to work. 119 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:23,800 So let's find out then, shall we? 120 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,420 Let's take off these stickers here that were the problem. 121 00:05:28,420 --> 00:05:31,600 And the reason that Apple refused to give us 122 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,700 their replacement pricing on the logic board. 123 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:37,460 So technically it's not that they're denying us 124 00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:38,300 warranty service, 125 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:40,520 but they were definitely treating us differently. 126 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,960 Whether it is legal for them to treat us differently 127 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,260 because of a sticker having been broken or not 128 00:05:45,260 --> 00:05:47,940 is something that is very much an ongoing debate 129 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:49,800 and something that if you're down in the US, 130 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,680 you should probably contact your local 131 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,780 congressional representative about. 132 00:05:53,780 --> 00:05:55,080 So there's eight screws that we're going to use. 133 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,540 We're going to have to pull off. 134 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:59,760 Wow. There's a lot of tension on those mounts. 135 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,080 I'm having fun. You having fun? 136 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:11,030 Oh yeah. Good times. 137 00:06:11,030 --> 00:06:14,880 Actually it just goes right metal on PCB. 138 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:16,060 How interesting. 139 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:18,360 So you might not think that we'd have to remove the screws 140 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,860 from the GPU here, 141 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:22,810 but the reason that we do is actually 142 00:06:22,810 --> 00:06:27,560 because the entire cooling unit is one piece. 143 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:34,970 So it's connected by heat pipes between both CPU and GPU. 144 00:06:35,190 --> 00:06:39,730 So it's connected to these metal cooling fins here. 145 00:06:39,730 --> 00:06:41,370 Holy crap. 146 00:06:41,370 --> 00:06:44,180 Okay. I did not see that one coming. 147 00:06:44,180 --> 00:06:48,870 What the heck Apple. 148 00:06:48,870 --> 00:06:54,320 So they don't use the retention mechanism for the CPU 149 00:06:54,980 --> 00:06:57,640 that is normally part of the socket design, 150 00:06:59,020 --> 00:07:02,340 I guess to save some space on the board, 151 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:04,460 which means that when you take the heat sink off, 152 00:07:04,460 --> 00:07:07,440 it just rips the CPU right out of the board. 153 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,520 Fortunately that came out clean. 154 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,440 So I don't think we're going to run into any trouble. 155 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,400 And Apple expects even their authorized service providers 156 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,400 to get boards with CPUs, RAM and SSDs pre-installed on them 157 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,480 as a single unit, 158 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,680 even though they are socketed and they are not soldered. 159 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,140 So I guess this isn't supposed to be a problem 160 00:07:29,140 --> 00:07:29,980 for the end user, 161 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:32,900 but I'm still not a fan of designs like this 162 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:37,730 that just the thermal paste just pulls the CPU 163 00:07:37,730 --> 00:07:38,630 out of the socket. 164 00:07:39,650 --> 00:07:42,180 Go ahead and cut. 165 00:07:42,180 --> 00:07:43,180 Kidding. 166 00:07:43,180 --> 00:07:45,390 Anyway, enough about that. 167 00:07:45,390 --> 00:07:49,630 This is upgrade guide, not complain about the process guide. 168 00:07:49,630 --> 00:07:53,330 So right here around the CPU socket area 169 00:07:53,330 --> 00:07:55,150 is pretty much everything we can do. 170 00:07:55,150 --> 00:07:59,040 So we're going to pull out our eight gig sticks of RAM. 171 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:00,620 So we're going to be careful here, 172 00:08:00,620 --> 00:08:03,880 not to have them pop out of the slot, 173 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:04,880 because if they did, 174 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,820 they could accidentally bend the pins in the CPU socket. 175 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:11,240 Then we're going to go ahead and take our 18, 176 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,000 18 core CPU. 177 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:18,340 Currently Intel's highest end workstation chip. 178 00:08:18,340 --> 00:08:19,160 There we go. 179 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,380 So they haven't done anything funky 180 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:22,320 with the spec of the socket. 181 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,210 Just goes in a little something like that. 182 00:08:25,210 --> 00:08:28,260 Now we get to crack open the seals 183 00:08:28,260 --> 00:08:31,080 on two grand worth of memory. 184 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,920 Look at all the DRAM packages on this thing. 185 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:37,590 Line that bad boy up. 186 00:08:37,590 --> 00:08:47,420 One, two, three, four. 187 00:08:48,630 --> 00:08:49,550 The only thing I regret, 188 00:08:49,550 --> 00:08:52,460 is using a green PCB. 189 00:08:52,460 --> 00:08:57,460 So now we get to pippity pop our cooling solution back on. 190 00:08:58,770 --> 00:08:59,610 Going to have to, 191 00:08:59,610 --> 00:09:01,650 we're probably just going to reuse the thermal compound 192 00:09:01,650 --> 00:09:02,490 for the GPU, 193 00:09:02,490 --> 00:09:05,850 but this CPU situation might need a little bit of help. 194 00:09:05,850 --> 00:09:08,630 I got to like pry this baby out of here. 195 00:09:08,630 --> 00:09:09,470 Oh, okay. 196 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:12,170 Well that was easier than it looked like it was going to be. 197 00:09:12,170 --> 00:09:13,010 Alrighty then. 198 00:09:13,010 --> 00:09:18,550 We'll put on some new thermal compound here. 199 00:09:18,550 --> 00:09:19,390 What? 200 00:09:19,390 --> 00:09:20,730 Just pop that on just like that. 201 00:09:20,730 --> 00:09:21,590 Oh, oh, oh. 202 00:09:22,910 --> 00:09:25,090 Okay. We made one small mistake. 203 00:09:25,090 --> 00:09:28,670 We're going to have to put in these two RAM sticks afterward. 204 00:09:28,670 --> 00:09:29,510 Hey, don't blame me. 205 00:09:29,510 --> 00:09:31,350 You guys subscribed to this mess. 206 00:09:31,350 --> 00:09:37,830 Pop that back in there. 207 00:09:37,830 --> 00:09:42,730 Go ahead and turn this over and get that bolted down. 208 00:09:42,730 --> 00:09:44,170 Now with our upgrades done, 209 00:09:44,170 --> 00:09:45,570 we're going to flip the machine back over. 210 00:09:45,570 --> 00:09:48,750 Now it is really important because of the way that CPU 211 00:09:48,750 --> 00:09:51,190 is just going to pop out of the socket. 212 00:09:51,190 --> 00:09:53,560 If we move the heat pipe cooler, 213 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:56,200 we're going to make sure we hold that in place. 214 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:57,630 Oh boy. 215 00:09:57,630 --> 00:09:58,550 Oh boy. 216 00:09:58,830 --> 00:09:59,670 Yep. 217 00:09:59,670 --> 00:10:01,550 Hold that in place against the board. 218 00:10:01,550 --> 00:10:02,390 Oh, good. 219 00:10:02,390 --> 00:10:03,690 Our CPU didn't pop out. 220 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:08,620 Then we're going to go ahead and put our mounting bracket 221 00:10:08,620 --> 00:10:10,700 on the back, back on. 222 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,340 Now this is a little bit tricky here 223 00:10:13,340 --> 00:10:16,680 because there are two different kinds of screws 224 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:18,320 and you need to make sure you put the right ones 225 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:19,700 in the right holes. 226 00:10:19,700 --> 00:10:23,120 So the ones with the kind of built-in standoff on them, 227 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,180 those go the orientation we were looking at the board here, 228 00:10:26,180 --> 00:10:28,920 top left and bottom right. 229 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:34,810 The ones with the much shorter posts, 230 00:10:34,810 --> 00:10:38,490 those go top right, bottom left. 231 00:10:38,490 --> 00:10:40,730 If you screw this up, best case scenario, 232 00:10:40,730 --> 00:10:42,930 you've got kind of wonky mounting pressure. 233 00:10:42,930 --> 00:10:45,550 Worst case scenario, you will damage your board. 234 00:10:45,550 --> 00:10:47,710 Boy, this is a lot more pressure 235 00:10:47,710 --> 00:10:50,210 than I'm comfortable putting on a motherboard. 236 00:10:50,210 --> 00:10:52,570 I hate these mounts. 237 00:10:52,570 --> 00:10:54,560 Okay. 238 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:57,390 Gorgeous. 239 00:10:57,390 --> 00:10:59,190 Now the GPU is not nearly as scary 240 00:10:59,190 --> 00:11:01,690 because there's no pins that you can accidentally 241 00:11:01,690 --> 00:11:04,870 rip the CPU out of and then accidentally put it in sideways. 242 00:11:04,870 --> 00:11:06,710 You don't have to mangle them up or anything. 243 00:11:06,710 --> 00:11:08,750 Oh, by the way, I'm sorry, off camera, 244 00:11:08,750 --> 00:11:11,010 I did wipe the thermal compound off the GPU 245 00:11:11,010 --> 00:11:13,190 and I did reapply, but I'm not gonna pull this back off 246 00:11:13,190 --> 00:11:14,590 to show you guys that. 247 00:11:14,590 --> 00:11:16,550 So to put our GPU cooler back on, 248 00:11:16,550 --> 00:11:19,550 see these little cutouts right here? 249 00:11:19,550 --> 00:11:21,970 So just look at these two holes here 250 00:11:21,970 --> 00:11:23,790 and then the shape of the components underneath them 251 00:11:23,790 --> 00:11:27,900 and you won't be able to screw up which one goes which way. 252 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:29,960 In this case, all the screws are the same. 253 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,280 So we just go ahead and position these bad boys 254 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,550 and then screw them down. 255 00:11:35,550 --> 00:11:38,110 Once again, applying far more pressure 256 00:11:38,110 --> 00:11:40,070 than I am super comfortable with. 257 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,400 Beautiful. 258 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:50,180 That is our upgraded logic board. 259 00:11:50,180 --> 00:11:53,320 And they said it couldn't be done. 260 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,600 Now to put it together and find out if it works. 261 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,960 One thing we're gonna do to make our lives 262 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,540 a little bit easier compared to when Lewis and I did this 263 00:12:01,540 --> 00:12:03,500 is we're gonna pull out the speakers, 264 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:07,800 put those back in after we've installed the logic board. 265 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:09,280 Let me see. 266 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:13,740 There we go. 267 00:12:13,740 --> 00:12:15,700 Actually, that should be fine. 268 00:12:15,700 --> 00:12:17,160 All right. 269 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:18,960 One of the keys at this stage is making sure 270 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,000 that you don't accidentally cover up some of the connectors 271 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,340 that you're gonna need to plug back into your motherboard. 272 00:12:24,340 --> 00:12:27,840 Now the last thing we wanna do is accidentally scratch 273 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,860 the PCB with one of these standoffs here 274 00:12:30,860 --> 00:12:34,480 while we're inserting the board. 275 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:35,900 This is one nice thing about the design. 276 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:37,040 They've got this rubber stopper here 277 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,700 so you can't let it fall down or anything. 278 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:44,940 Now let's go around and do our motherboard screws. 279 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:47,240 Gonna arbitrarily pick this one to start with. 280 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,280 We want those as centered as possible 281 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,840 because it can affect the alignment of your rear ports 282 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,980 if you don't have the board in perfectly. 283 00:12:54,980 --> 00:12:57,480 We're gonna need to lift up this side of the board here 284 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,400 a little bit. 285 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,750 Perfect. 286 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:06,200 I'm gonna do these power ones now. 287 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,580 There we go. 288 00:13:07,580 --> 00:13:08,420 Oh, beautiful. 289 00:13:08,420 --> 00:13:09,260 Okay. 290 00:13:09,260 --> 00:13:11,050 One little trick, guys. 291 00:13:11,050 --> 00:13:14,580 This speaker connector right here has this little loop here. 292 00:13:14,580 --> 00:13:19,060 So we're gonna go ahead and put that on just partway. 293 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:21,300 We're gonna plug it in. 294 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:23,430 Shoop. 295 00:13:23,430 --> 00:13:25,820 Then we're gonna tighten it down. 296 00:13:25,820 --> 00:13:26,660 While we're at it, 297 00:13:26,660 --> 00:13:32,540 we can start connecting some of the back ribbon cables. 298 00:13:32,540 --> 00:13:34,140 There we go. 299 00:13:34,140 --> 00:13:35,740 All right, we're gonna check our rear port alignment 300 00:13:35,740 --> 00:13:36,780 at this point. 301 00:13:36,780 --> 00:13:38,160 Looking pretty slick. 302 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:39,280 All right. 303 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,060 Now we're gonna throw in our other two power screws. 304 00:13:42,060 --> 00:13:44,080 Tighten those up. 305 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,440 Don't wanna lose connection here. 306 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,340 There we go. 307 00:13:49,340 --> 00:13:51,240 And we can start connecting the rest 308 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:56,990 of the connectors on the back of our board. 309 00:13:56,990 --> 00:13:58,310 We can go ahead and put our speaker back in 310 00:13:58,310 --> 00:14:02,300 at this point too. 311 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:04,360 How's that cable managed? 312 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:05,380 Feeling good now. 313 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:11,580 Now we're gonna hook up all the antennas. 314 00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:14,380 These are really fragile connectors. 315 00:14:14,380 --> 00:14:16,890 Please be careful. 316 00:14:16,890 --> 00:14:18,990 Now we're just gonna stick this shield 317 00:14:18,990 --> 00:14:22,500 into its little cable management slot here. 318 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:23,340 There we go. 319 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:26,800 It should sit on kind of a little hinge like that. 320 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,290 Then we're gonna adjust these antenna wires 321 00:14:31,290 --> 00:14:34,310 and screw it in. 322 00:14:34,310 --> 00:14:35,690 Now this motherboard mounting screw, 323 00:14:35,690 --> 00:14:38,400 we're gonna have to take out temporarily. 324 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,640 We're gonna put this little shield in place. 325 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,240 Screw it back in partway. 326 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,580 Screw in the other side. 327 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:47,020 Being very careful not to drop it. 328 00:14:47,020 --> 00:14:49,730 Undoing all of the work we just did. 329 00:14:49,730 --> 00:14:52,050 And we can go ahead and tighten down our motherboard screw. 330 00:14:52,050 --> 00:14:53,510 All right, now we're gonna throw the speakers in 331 00:14:53,510 --> 00:14:58,290 and we are almost home free. 332 00:14:58,290 --> 00:15:00,580 So where did this go? 333 00:15:00,580 --> 00:15:03,500 Yep, there it goes. 334 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:07,660 Now we've got a somewhat obnoxious task ahead of us. 335 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:09,760 Because the display is glued on, 336 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,120 it means we've gotta remove all of the old adhesive. 337 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:19,940 So this will take a little while. 338 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:20,780 On there too. 339 00:15:20,780 --> 00:15:24,600 That won't hurt. 340 00:15:26,780 --> 00:15:28,700 Now that that's all off, 341 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,880 I'm gonna stretch out my ARM a little bit here. 342 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,620 All that is left is for us to put on new adhesive strips 343 00:15:37,620 --> 00:15:39,840 and put on the screen. 344 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:41,140 Be really careful with these. 345 00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:43,280 You don't get two cracks at them. 346 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,020 So you can see they got this little hole up here 347 00:15:45,020 --> 00:15:49,490 for alignment, whatever it's for. 348 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:51,400 Nailed that one. 349 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,230 Onto the next. 350 00:15:53,230 --> 00:15:55,930 These last two along the bottom are the trickiest 351 00:15:55,930 --> 00:16:00,490 just because this kit was designed, as far as I can tell, 352 00:16:00,490 --> 00:16:04,030 with the original Retina iMac in mind. 353 00:16:04,030 --> 00:16:06,070 And there might be just some slight, 354 00:16:06,070 --> 00:16:08,010 ever so slight differences. 355 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:11,070 So you're gonna have like this little tab doodad here 356 00:16:11,070 --> 00:16:12,790 that kind of doesn't really go anywhere. 357 00:16:12,790 --> 00:16:14,350 It's not a big deal. 358 00:16:14,350 --> 00:16:16,690 Or I don't know, maybe it goes along this thing here. 359 00:16:16,690 --> 00:16:18,670 That really doesn't matter. 360 00:16:18,670 --> 00:16:20,580 There, boom. 361 00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:22,180 Minor detail. 362 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:26,650 Guess I better put the cooler back in. 363 00:16:26,650 --> 00:16:27,490 LOL. 364 00:16:28,980 --> 00:16:32,990 And also these two screws right there. 365 00:16:32,990 --> 00:16:33,630 Now. 366 00:16:33,630 --> 00:16:36,370 The trickiest part. 367 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:38,530 Removing the adhesive strips, 368 00:16:38,530 --> 00:16:40,250 putting the display back on. 369 00:16:40,250 --> 00:16:43,400 We're gonna put on these three cables first though. 370 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:44,660 Apple's gonna be watching this video. 371 00:16:44,660 --> 00:16:45,500 They're gonna be like, 372 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:47,980 we want to recruit Linus 373 00:16:47,980 --> 00:16:50,360 to be an Apple authorized service provider. 374 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,940 Looks like it goes right there. 375 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:52,780 Yep. 376 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:55,190 And then put the latch down. 377 00:16:55,190 --> 00:16:56,210 Boop. 378 00:16:56,210 --> 00:16:58,860 Oh, it looks like that one went in super easy. 379 00:16:58,860 --> 00:17:01,960 And this guy. 380 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,280 Never a problem, you know? 381 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,980 Now. 382 00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:08,360 This is not attached. 383 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:11,950 This is very scary. 384 00:17:11,950 --> 00:17:15,960 But I want to know if this thing powers on 385 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,280 before I waste my adhesive and an hour of my life 386 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,500 peeling it all back off and reapplying it again. 387 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,300 So let's go ahead and get this plugged in 388 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:25,260 and see how she goes. 389 00:17:25,260 --> 00:17:32,080 Ooh. 390 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:33,080 Ha. 391 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:33,920 Okay. 392 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:34,760 Jesus. 393 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:41,700 Had me going for a minute there. 394 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:42,900 I don't use Macs much. 395 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:45,940 I don't know how long they take to boot up. 396 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:46,780 Whatever. 397 00:17:46,780 --> 00:17:48,300 Let's get this keyboard and mouse hooked up. 398 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:50,760 Let's see how much performance we got. 399 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,090 Whoa. 400 00:17:52,090 --> 00:17:53,990 Now we're not out of the woods yet. 401 00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:55,770 There's a distinct possibility 402 00:17:55,770 --> 00:17:58,610 that some of our stuff might not have been detected. 403 00:17:58,610 --> 00:18:00,450 So, okay, nevermind. 404 00:18:00,450 --> 00:18:03,770 That ruined the suspense and anticipation 405 00:18:03,770 --> 00:18:05,170 because there it is. 406 00:18:05,170 --> 00:18:08,050 Intel Xeon W2195. 407 00:18:08,050 --> 00:18:10,030 That's our 18 core processor 408 00:18:10,030 --> 00:18:14,670 with 128 gigs of DDR4 memory. 409 00:18:14,670 --> 00:18:19,010 So let's run our benchmarks, shall we? 410 00:18:19,010 --> 00:18:21,910 So a quick Google search online tells me it should be 411 00:18:21,910 --> 00:18:26,240 in the neighborhood of 50,000. 412 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,650 Come on, show me the big score. 413 00:18:30,650 --> 00:18:31,670 There it is. 414 00:18:31,670 --> 00:18:36,410 So we just crushed our old performance. 415 00:18:36,410 --> 00:18:38,410 We are right up there 416 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:43,410 with the regular factory Apple iMac Pro with the 18 core, 417 00:18:43,550 --> 00:18:46,390 but we saved ourselves a bunch of money 418 00:18:46,390 --> 00:18:49,790 at, of course, the expense of our time. 419 00:18:49,790 --> 00:18:50,870 Fantastic. 420 00:18:50,870 --> 00:18:53,850 This thing is now officially tricked right out. 421 00:18:53,850 --> 00:18:58,020 And, of course, this video wouldn't have been possible 422 00:18:58,020 --> 00:19:00,500 without iFixit sponsoring it. 423 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:04,040 So a massive thank you to iFixit for sponsoring this video, 424 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,660 sending over the RAM upgrade, 425 00:19:05,660 --> 00:19:07,480 sending over the adhesive strips, 426 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,300 their tool kit that was perfect, 427 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:10,900 had everything we needed in it. 428 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:13,260 You guys can check out iFixit.com. 429 00:19:13,260 --> 00:19:14,660 They've got tons of great guides, 430 00:19:14,660 --> 00:19:17,840 as well as, of course, their comprehensive lineup of tools, 431 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,560 replacement parts, and all that good stuff 432 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,740 at the link in the video description. 433 00:19:21,740 --> 00:19:22,640 So thanks for watching, guys. 434 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:23,680 If you disliked this video, 435 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:24,560 you can hit that button. 436 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,180 But if you liked it, hit like, get subscribed, 437 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:27,820 maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff 438 00:19:27,820 --> 00:19:30,620 we featured at the link in the video description. 439 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:31,960 Also down there is our merch store, 440 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,300 which has cool shirts like this one, 441 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:36,440 and our community forum, which you should totally join. 442 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,960 If you noticed that we had some audio issues 443 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,380 for part of this video, you can thank David. 444 00:19:41,380 --> 00:19:43,240 You can thank him in the comments. 445 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,160 I can't be in the video. 446 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,000 Can't talk about it. 447 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,080 I can talk about whoever I want. 448 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,240 I'm the CEO of the company. 449 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,880 That's a good one, sorry.