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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey Well, now it looks like I'm screwed. I was just tootling along, playing around on my computer, when it locked up. Now I don't seem to be able to boot it at all... not from the main drive, not from the cloned backup drive... not even from the Unibeast Catalina install USB. I've tried...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey Hmm. I managed to get my current Mojave install running with iMac15,1 + PEG and multi-monitor turned on in the BIOS. It seems to be working just fine. But trying to install Catalina that way still stalled at the point where it normally loads the graphical language select screen...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    Cool, thanks. I'll back up the existing (i.e., auto-generated) one and modify it.
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey Any insight here would sure be appreciated. I've attached the config.plist from the Unibeast Catalina install USB. For whatever reason, it says iMac14,2 and injects Nvidiaweb, near the bottom.
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    SATA SSD vs M.2 SSD for System drive

    With a single HP NVMe on 4 lanes (i.e., not SATA) I'm getting 2.8GB/s read, 2.6GB/s write using Blackmagic Disk Speed test. All checkboxes green. My SATA performance is, about as expected, a bit less than 1/4 that. If you have a 4-lane short PCIE slot you can get an M.2 PCIE adapter card for...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey Okay, you lost me. I don't know how to set the SMBIOS to 15,1. I'm just trying to do a fresh install of Catalina, using vanilla unibeast method and so far I have not been able to get it to boot to the language selection screen. Do you mean you set it manually in the Clover options...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey My PSU is 1000W. I got a beefy one because I have 4 x 4TB HDDs. Thinking about getting #5 now. Regardless, I have a new problem. My RX Vega 64 is installed and working great in Mojave. All I needed to do was remove Cuda drivers. But Catalina install stops now right after I tell...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @slim.jim Yep. I've already bitten the bullet and ordered an RX Vega 64. Not top of the line, but should be good enough for my purposes and no struggle to drive 3 monitors. Certainly better performance than the old 2GB 680 anyway. I look forward to fewer hackintosh hassles.
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @slim.jim Yes, I know. I also know it's supposed to be possible, and others have made it work. But it just isn't working for me right now. In fact this card seems to be an edge case... it has really been a hassle the last few years when I've gone to upgrade OS X or MacOS. So I'm switching it...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @itwas Maybe it's a combination of my card + motherboard. I don't know. But it's a 2GB card, yet MacOS is only seeing 1GB. I've tried DVI, DVI, HDMI and DVI, DVI, Display Port. Conceivably I could drive 2 DVIs from the Dual Link DVI socket, with a Y adapter, giving me 3 DVIs. But I got tired...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    @jaymonkey Looks like I'm out of luck. I got my third monitor. So far I have only been able to get 2 to work at a time in Mojave. From what I've been reading, getting all three requires Nvidia webdrivers, but there are no webdrivers for Mojave. If anyone has a fix for this problem, I'd sure...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    Thanks for the considered response. If I can install Catalina on a new drive with Lilu + WEG I might just go with my old card for now, and wait and see about the rest. Pretty obviously I'm going to have to upgrade before long. And the fact that the NAVI cards are causing problems on native Macs...
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    << Solved >> Do the Samsung 970 EVO Plus drives work ? New Firmware Available 2B2QEXM7

    The Z97 boards only support gen 3 x 2 lane PCIE for the M.2 socket. BUT... You can buy an M.2 PCIE card and get the full benefit of a drive's 3 x 4 PCIE. The boards are inexpensive (mine cost about $15 online) because they don't have any electronics. It's just an M.2 socket and PCIE slot...
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    General Graphics Card Question

    I have an ASUS Z97-Pro (Wifi AC) with Intel i7 4790k. I had Mojave running on this board with my GTX 680 graphics card, which is Metal-compatible. Then I had a hard drive issue, and have had problems getting the system running again using the GTX 680. I want to upgrade to Catalina. And no...
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    << Solved >> White Circle/No Catalina Install Info

    I'm having the same problem, but this is with the upgrade from Mojave, so no USB. On the first reboot, it gets most of the way through, then freeze and circle with line through it. I should add that this is an Asus Z-97 Pro board, with i7 4790k and on-board graphics. Help, anyone. I have a...
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