Thanks but I don't want a laptop; this machine houses 7 tb of hard
drives and (hopefully) drives at least two full-size monitors! A new
graphics card is a lot cheaper than another machine.
Having looked at them all in more detail, the only one that's less than
a few hundred quid is the first one, so I guess that answers my
question....first I'm going to upgrade an external disk via my macbook
air and see if I can cheat (it may just be the start up screen or
something that actually *needs* Metal compatibility).
cheers
J
On 28 Sep 2018, at 7:41, Derek wrote:
Alternatively, consider buying a second hand MacBook Pro that is
compatible.
Cheers,
Derek
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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
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