How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication. How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac. How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files. How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill. How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad. How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. Maybe I'll upgrade that to something solid-state, or maybe Thunderbolt for an additional performance boost. I keep my Home directory on an external drive. The internal SSD in my Mac Pro is dedicated to macOS and my apps since 512GB isn't enough for everything. It's weird how single-core actually went down, but that's no big deal. Wow, the CPU score went from 14200 to 30530. I then ran Geekbench to see the performances boost. Just booting the Mac up and launching all the apps that I usually have open showed a significant improvement. This is the most amount of RAM I have ever had in a computer. I booted the Mac up and launched About this Mac. I then put the cover back on and reconnected all my peripherals. That's if you can even get your hands on one. Every board in this machine costs hundreds to replace. Imagine slipping with a screwdriver and popping a cap off one of the boards. That was a pretty complicated upgrade, not to mention a little nerve-racking. It was then time to reassemble everything. I then applied some new paste to both sides. I installed the new chip and reconnected the retaining brackets. I removed the CPU retaining brackets and pulled the old chip. This is going to be a pretty complicated tear-down. I'm sure I have a few tubes lying around, but considering it's probably been a good 10 years since I built a PC from the ground-up, they're probably not any good. $300 used is a huge savings considering these still get listed on eBay for well over $500 bucks. The RAM is new, but the CPU is a used system pull. It's the most powerful CPU this machine supports. I picked up a 12-core 2.4GHz E5-2697 v2 Xeon. In order to push this machine a little further, I need to jack the RAM from the stock 12GB configuration and upgrade the stock 3.7Ghz 4-core Xeon. Whatever the case, I'm stuck with my Late-2013 Mac Pro for a few more years. Maybe I'll wait another 3 years and buy one used. I'm going to have to hold out for a few more years until Apple can come to their senses and either lower the price, or come out with something else in the $3000 range. 
That's still expensive, but with a little saving and selling off some old stuff on eBay, it was doable. There's no way I can justify $5000 on a base model. With the announcement of the new 2019 Mac Pro, Apple has effectively priced me out of the Pro market.
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