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1. Apple boot camp 2.1 how to#
2. Apple boot camp 2.1 mac os x#
3. Apple boot camp 2.1 update#
4. Apple boot camp 2.1 driver#
5. Apple boot camp 2.1 upgrade#

I settled on the Radeon HD 2600XT for boot screens, but also left my flashed 5670 in place, since it’s several times faster than the 2600 and *drumroll* supported completely under Snow Leopard (just no boot screens), while only needing PCIe bus power (albeit with no boot screen), but I have gotten around the aesthetics of that easily. Additionally, since the 980Ti will not work in Snow Leopard and since both aux PCIe taps are used by the 980Ti, that limits the list somewhat of what GPUs you can use with Snow Leopard in tandem. This card eats up both of your PCIe auxiliary power taps on the Mac Pro logic board, and while there are ways around this to get more power taps, it does require a bit of extra work and I was content to just use other GPUs that did not require additional aux power taps. Great power like that is not without its own drawbacks though.

Apple boot camp 2.1 driver#

The GTX 980Ti requires Yosemite, but cannot go beyond High Sierra (10.13.x) due to no NVidia driver support beyond that point, but that point is moot on the Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 since El Capitan is the maximum, so you’ll be running a 980Ti in Yosemite or El Capitan if you want to use it on a Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1.

Apple boot camp 2.1 upgrade#

The GeForce 980Ti is the perfect GPU upgrade for the Mac Pro 2,1 when you’re running Yosemite and it’s current unofficial maximum (El Capitan), since with dual quad-core 3.0 GHz Xeons for the Mac Pro 2,1 and this GPU, you then have a very powerful machine on a budget that is not only competent for modern Windows gaming and even VR (my son has a refurbished Oculus Rift on the way that we’ll all check out soon that I can write about – Mark also did this with his 2,1).

Apple boot camp 2.1 how to#

Fellow LEM writer Mark Sokolovsky chronicles how to get a GeForce 980Ti installed in his Mac Pro 2,1 in his article Install an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 TI in Your Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1. How can you expect to play modern games and squeeze the most life out of your applications with an official Apple AMD Radeon (X1900, HD 2600 XT, 5770/5870, etc.) or Apple NVidia card (7300, 8800, GT120, etc)? While these were all competent GPUs in their day and generate boot screens, they are now getting too long in the tooth for many things – especially for use with gaming and some of the most recent web applications. From the point I got my OSes where I wanted, sure – I could have just used one EFI supported GPU and called it a day, but that would not do.

Apple boot camp 2.1 mac os x#

So how did I do it personally to get the absolute most out of it with three different OSes that have different needs? I have Yosemite and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on one SSD and Windows 10 (64-bit) on its own SSD for Boot Camp (getting 64-bit versions of Windows also requires a bit of a hack but is completely stable). The point of this article is how on Earth can one get the absolute most out of this machine in a Tri-Boot scenario of OSes that have different fundamental requirements?

Getting an unofficial version of OS X on the Mac Pro is not the point of this article though, as much has already been written about hacking Mac OS versions beyond Lion on the 1,1 and 2,1. At the very least, Google’s Chrome browser (version 81.x as of this writing) is still supported for now on Yosemite, as well as Office 365 (Office 2016), along with a myriad of other things that should keep Yosemite somewhat relevant for a few more years.

Apple boot camp 2.1 update#

The only drawback is that the 1,1 and 2,1 max out unofficially at Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan (and you need to avoid installing a specific security update for El Capitan which breaks the 1,1 and 2,1 from booting into El Capitan any longer), but how can one complain running 14-year old hardware that was supposed to have reached the end of its line at Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which was released 9 years ago?! I have Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite on mine, which is perfectly stable for now and worlds ahead of Lion.