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  • - Hey guys, this is Austin.

  • A lot of things have changed around here.

  • My facial hair has changed, the vines have changed,

  • but what will never change is our ideas

  • of making really, really dumb things

  • slightly less dumb.

  • So this is a 2018 6-Core Mac mini.

  • Now that part is actually pretty solid.

  • But the rest of the components

  • leave a little bit to be desired.

  • Thankfully though, this is one

  • of the only Mac computers you can buy today

  • that's actually somewhat upgradeable.

  • That is where this comes in.

  • So with the Mac mini,

  • thankfully you still do have SO-DIMMs,

  • but the only issue is

  • that when go order it straight from Apple,

  • as always, it's very expensive.

  • But if we do it ourselves, it's only gonna cost about 200.

  • The only downside, is that ya have to open this up,

  • and I don't think it's as easy as some previous Mac minis.

  • So I've never done this before.

  • I know previously you would just rotate this little guy.

  • Oh that's already a not.

  • I literally have no idea what I'm doing,

  • but I know the old Mac minis this would just rotate.

  • Oh, you just lift it.

  • That's much easier, okay.

  • Oh (laughing), well yeah,

  • before this was pretty much all you had to do.

  • So we have the antenna cover outta the way,

  • now we can see the very small fan, and heatsink.

  • But what I don't see is RAM.

  • Alright, and there is our fan.

  • So we're getting closer, I see our CPU socket,

  • and what looks to be our heatsink.

  • And this looks like the power supply over here.

  • So now comes the part

  • where I actually remove the motherboard,

  • so if I just press it, oh.

  • That's not so bad.

  • So that is pretty much everything we need to do,

  • wait, where's the memory?

  • Oh it's underneath here.

  • I was about to say come on.

  • So we pull out the old eight gigs of memory,

  • we can put in a full 32,

  • and this should be a decent way

  • along the Mac mini ultimate front.

  • Alright, so we now have 32 gigs of RAM in our Mac mini.

  • So with that out of the way,

  • now it's time to upgrade our display game.

  • So this is the giant LG 34 inch UltraWide.

  • Now we took a brief look at this at CES,

  • but what's cool about it is

  • it's actually a 5K by 2160 monitor.

  • So think like UltraWide 4K.

  • The best part of this guy is that it does take advantage

  • of Thunderbolt 3,

  • although I think we've got

  • some slightly more ambitious plans in mind.

  • We drop it on the stand here.

  • We've got a massive display.

  • Now importantly, in addition to Thunderbolt 3,

  • it also does support HDMI as well as DisplayPort.

  • I am excited to give this a try.

  • Gimme some Thunderbolt action, ay, alright.

  • So there we go, we got our 5K display up.

  • But is that enough for the Ultimate Mac mini?

  • Come on.

  • Unfortunately I can't actually log in yet,

  • because I don't have my keyboard.

  • The Logitech Craft, I had that upside down.

  • So this is actually a sort of an interesting keyboard,

  • and it has a little, what do they call this dial?

  • The Creative Input Dial?

  • It's kinda like the, what, the what, the Surface Dial?

  • Except it works on Mac.

  • Okay, we have the keyboard up and running.

  • This is a super nice keyboard.

  • I've actually never seen one of these in person.

  • Not only does it charge via USB-C,

  • but you've got the back lighting.

  • I'm curious about how the dial, oh

  • that just works as a volume by default.

  • But we need a mouse, which is where uh (throat clearing)

  • which is where this comes in.

  • So this is the BenQ Zowie EC1-A.

  • So now that we're into Mac OS,

  • if I pull up about this Mac, we can see that we have

  • our 32 gig showing up,

  • we can see that it is the Core i7 version,

  • but the next issue is storage.

  • Because this only has what, 512 gigs, something like that?

  • I think they do have a two terabyte option,

  • but it's like $1,000.

  • So instead we have this.

  • So this is the Pegasus R4.

  • Now if you guys have been watching the channel for awhile,

  • you know that we actually bought this for a project,

  • oh but it was probably like three years ago or something.

  • So this is actually so old it's still using Thunderbolt 2,

  • with an adapter, we can get

  • an additional fast nine terabytes of storage

  • into our Mac mini.

  • So we plug this into our second Thunderbolt port.

  • It should light up, yes it is,

  • I'll give it a little less slack on that cable.

  • So something I forgot to mention earlier

  • is that this Mac mini does have not only the Core i7 inside,

  • but also importantly has the 10 gig ethernet update.

  • So we've actually switched a lot of our editing PCs

  • over to these Mac minis,

  • and one of the main reason we can do that

  • is because we're working on a 10 gig server,

  • so this is actually one of the main reasons why

  • we have such a small and tiny computer running things,

  • 'cause it's way cheaper than stuff like iMac Pros,

  • or building some giant 10 gig box,

  • when we can use this guy.

  • So we're looking pretty good at this point,

  • but we still have a couple of Thunderbolt ports left,

  • which means that it's time to upgrade

  • to actually one of my personal favorite accessories,

  • the CalDigit Thunderbolt dock.

  • So what I like about this guy

  • is that with a single Thunderbolt cable,

  • I can do stuff like, for example if I had

  • a Thunderbolt powered laptop, power it with up to 85 watts

  • of USB power delivery, there's a ton of USB-A ports,

  • you've got SD cards, you've got a Thunderbolt out,

  • so you go to say a 5K display like this,

  • and then you also get ethernet built in,

  • you've got DisplayPort.

  • This thing is absolutely killer

  • if you have a Thunderbolt enabled computer.

  • So this is actually looking pretty good.

  • But the problem is is that we're still running

  • on an internal GPU, right?

  • I mean nothing against Intel UHD 620 graphics,

  • but well that uh, not gonna quite cut it.

  • So what if we take advantage of our last Thunderbolt port,

  • to install a GPU?

  • That is where this comes in.

  • So this is the GIGABYTE RX 580 Gaming Box.

  • So we've actually done a couple of videos on this.

  • So one of the nice things is

  • is that especially when you're dealing with Macs,

  • this is one of the best GPUs to go with.

  • But on top of that, it should give us a lot of extra power

  • with our Mac mini.

  • If I can find my cable here.

  • Oh, what?

  • Well that was easy.

  • So now we have our 5K display running off of our RX 580.

  • Yeah, so go to about this Mac,

  • we now see that we have the Radeon RX 580 showing up.

  • This, this is looking promising.

  • I like how our resolution is so high.

  • If we try to scale it to 4K,

  • it gives us a low resolution warning (laughing).

  • So, we fire up Unigine here.

  • Okay we're getting 33, 34 fps,

  • that's certainly nothing crazy,

  • when you consider that typically

  • you're running Unigine on a PC,

  • it's a full gaming setup.

  • Right now we're running on a Mac mini

  • with an external Thunderbolt GPU.

  • And that's actually one of my favorite parts

  • about something like the Mac mini.

  • With all these Thunderbolt ports,

  • you actually do have a lot of potential to expand.

  • But what if, what if my friends,

  • we took expansion to a whole new level?

  • - Our friends at GIGABYTE,

  • are fans of the Ultimate Series.

  • - Okay.

  • - And they thought it'd be really cool,

  • (laughing)

  • if we plugged in four of these external GPUs.

  • - So if you look at the back of these gaming boxes,

  • they do have three USB-A ports as well as one quick charge.

  • But okay, let's cut this in for a second,

  • and see if we can even get them to spin.

  • 'Cause we've got one 580,

  • it works fine, it's pegged.

  • So let's see if we can plug in a couple more,

  • if it actually is able to see that or not.

  • Oh, GPU spinning, spinning, spinning.

  • All the lights are on.

  • - [Matt] That is a massively good sign.

  • - Okay, yes, they're all flashing green.

  • Now if we get our monitor up, oh well that--

  • - That's interesting, but...

  • - Okay well we're just gonna ignore that.

  • - I'll take that. - Uh, yes, okay,

  • monitor leave me alone.

  • I mean they're all spinning uh...

  • What it shows up when, ay, look at that,

  • four RX 580s, right out of the box.

  • - Perfect, yes. - Dude.

  • - Nothing really takes advantage of four GPUs.

  • Even though they all come up.

  • - Shh. - Although,

  • We found one program that did.

  • - Okay, so it sees our Core i7 8700.

  • It sees the 630 inside.

  • But we also see RX 580 one, RX 580 two, number three

  • as well as number four.

  • So this is a bad idea.

  • I'll just be real with you right now.

  • This is a bad idea because the thing is,

  • yes, you do have all of these Thunderbolt ports,

  • but they're all sharing bandwidth.

  • So inside the Mac mini, I believe

  • there's two Thunderbolt controllers, right?

  • - Yeah, it's one and three, two and four.

  • - Yes.

  • - So, in no scenario is all four of these

  • getting the proper amount of bandwidth.

  • - I will say while this benchmark is running,

  • the GPUs are getting a little toasty, I'd say.

  • The Mac mini itself is also very warm.

  • - Yeah, so. - So maybe don't do this.

  • This is a little danger... - On what?

  • - Oh (laughing).

  • - What we got here...

  • - that's for laptops.

  • - Good old laptop charger. - Chiller.

  • - Yes, chiller. - Laptop chiller.

  • - What'd I say? - Charger.

  • - Charger, yeah.

  • That's the cable.

  • So one of the biggest problems with this

  • is not the cost associated with it,

  • the ridiculousness, the bandwidth.

  • It's that in order for external GPUs to work,

  • they need super short cables,

  • and this is pretty much as far away as we can get.

  • - 54,201, that, I don't know, uh...

  • - For record...

  • - Yeah, can you, what's like a 2080 gonna get you?

  • I bet this is not as good as a 2080.

  • - I don't know what a 2080,

  • I can tell you what it did without the GPU.

  • - Okay, sure.

  • - With the internal GPU only,

  • it was 1,982, whatever unit of measurement this is.

  • - So it's 25 times better by adding four GPUs?

  • - Yes.

  • - So in conclusion, should you build the ultimate Mac mini?

  • Probably not.

  • But I will say one thing, this Mac mini

  • is a lot better than a lot of people give it credit for.

  • And if you go maybe a little bit less extreme

  • than what we did here, you can actually get

  • some pretty solid performance.

  • - Yeah, I was looking way weird.

  • (beeping)

  • (laughing)

- Hey guys, this is Austin.

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打造終極Mac Mini (Building the Ultimate Mac Mini)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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