Gigabyte Z490 Vision D (Thunderbolt 3) + i5-10400 + AMD RX 580

[egroys]

Hey!
Strange question: Just helped a friend update to the z490 Vision D but he wanted to keep his old Nvidia GTX 970. It's working but only showing up as a generic display with 8mb. I figured since it's such an old card, it's supported natively - but is there any way to get it to fully work in 10.15.7?

Thanks in advance!

 

[1Revenger1]

Hey!
Strange question: Just helped a friend update to the z490 Vision D but he wanted to keep his old Nvidia GTX 970. It's working but only showing up as a generic display with 8mb. I figured since it's such an old card, it's supported natively - but is there any way to get it to fully work in 10.15.7?

Thanks in advance!

900 cards have no support in Mojave, Catalina, or Big Sur. If you want to use Nvidia, you'll need to use 700 series nvidia GPUs (those with Kepler cores). Otherwise, you're stuck with AMD for Mojave+

If you want to use the GTX 970, you'll be stuck on High Sierra using the web drivers.

 

[johnvid]

Does anyone know if I can use 2x 970 EVO Plus 500GB in raid 0 on this mobo and use it for BigSur?

I want to achieve the fastest read/write speeds as possible.

*I know there are sometimes issues with Samsung NVME cards.

 

[hughythomas]

Chaps, I want to upgrade to Big Sur. Usually, I'm very much from the school of thought to do a clean install and format SSD but have got some audio plugins that I may not be able to retrieve again from Catalina.

Is it safe to do just a normal upgrade through system preferences? I'm on latest Catalina (Opencore 0.6.4) atm.

Anything need doing to Opencore or good to go?

 

[MACAK]

Chaps, I want to upgrade to Big Sur. Usually, I'm very much from the school of thought to do a clean install and format SSD but have got some audio plugins that I may not be able to retrieve again from Catalina.

Is it safe to do just a normal upgrade through system preferences? I'm on latest Catalina (Opencore 0.6.4) atm.

Anything need doing to Opencore or good to go?

Every system is different, having said that I followed @CaseySJ's guide carefully on my install and THEN followed his guide for upgrading to Big Sur. So it was painless for me. See this.

 

[Higgie]

Chaps, I want to upgrade to Big Sur. Usually, I'm very much from the school of thought to do a clean install and format SSD but have got some audio plugins that I may not be able to retrieve again from Catalina.

Is it safe to do just a normal upgrade through system preferences? I'm on latest Catalina (Opencore 0.6.4) atm.

Anything need doing to Opencore or good to go?

Just did the exact same thing for the exact same reason. No problems to report here, although every system is different. If you have a bootable backup you can always retrieve your previous configuration if the upgrade doesn’t work out.

 

[mm2margaret]

Just a short note to mention that both Catalina and Big Sur are running just fine on a newly compiled OC 6.5. Same config, both releases (well, I should note that I am on 11.2 beta of Big Sur (20D5029f), just to be completely accurate).

And, I found another OC plist editor app that I like a lot: https://github.com/ic005k/QtOpenCoreConfig/releases

Curious what you and some others think. Works great for me (at least so far).

 

[hughythomas]

Sorry to be a pain but I'm getting this message on trying to update to Big Sur from Catalina:

Google it obviously and tried a few different things but nothings worked so far...

Actually have the same problem on a real mac of mine (MBP 2014)

 

[WhenMusicAttacks]

Does anyone know why i can't see f7b and f6 on gigabyte page anymore? I was looking for updates, i'm on f7b atm with no issues

 

[trs96]

Actually have the same problem on a real mac of mine (MBP 2014)

The updates to Big Sur had been bricking some 2013/14 MBPs so Apple was not giving those models the BS update to prevent this. Google it and read about it. Supposedly this was fixed but you may still need to apply a fix from Apple.

If you can’t install macOS Big Sur on certain 13-inch MacBook Pro computers from 2013 and 2014 - Apple Support

Follow these steps if you can't install macOS Big Sur on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) or MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014).

support.apple.com