Alternatively, consider buying a second hand MacBook Pro that is compatible. Cheers, Derek
Sent from my iPad > On 27 Sep 2018, at 22:18, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear hardware gurus > > Much to my irritation Apple say my Mac Pro can't do Mojave because the > graphics card isn't supported. This is extra annoying for two reasons - > firstly they didn't even provide a link so I had to type in the URL and > secondly I just bought a second graphics card to install for extra monitors > which is identical to the one I have! It's on my desk at the moment, waiting > for me to sort it out... > > Ok, so to business. Could one of the hardware gurus offer advice on whether > any of the following list have good standing/should be avoided? > https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208898#cards > > These specific third-party graphics cards are Metal-capable and compatible > with macOS Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012): > MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDRR5 > SAPPHIRE Radeon PULSE RX 580 8GB GDDR5 > SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition > NVIDIA Quadro K5000 for Mac > NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Mac Edition > > > Some other third-party graphics cards* based on the following AMD GPU > families might also be compatible with macOS Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and > Mac Pro (Mid 2012): > AMD Radeon RX 560 > AMD Radeon RX 570 > AMD Radeon RX 580 > AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 > AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 > AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 > AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100 > AMD Radeon Frontier Edition > > (I think we can dispense with the second 'maybe' list). > > Also, I would like to run three monitors (inc an e-ink one I recently got) so > any hard-won knowledge/experience would be very welcome on this (the machine > is supposed to support three but via the most convoluted methods that I never > got working). So I may want to install two cards to get the set-up I want... > > thanks for any help > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
