Installing NVidia GT710 afterwards?

[Nicoth2709]

Hey Guys,

I gave 2 Questions and maybe you can help me with this.

I have ordered a GT710 today and I want to place it in my Mac. The Mac is a HP Z240 Workstation with i7 6700, 8G RAM and 120GB SSD...

Is there anything I have to take care of, when plugging a GT710? Does it need any optimisation In opencore config.plist or will it work plug and play?

The 2nd thing is my SSD. I installed a 120GB SSD and now I think I need more space. What is the best practice to upgrade ssd? Clone it via clonezilla or reinstall MacOS?

 

[Edhawk]

When you add a Discrete GPU to your system, no matter which Bootloader you are using, you need to change the DeviceProperties for the IGPU to a Headless (Empty) framebuffer. In place of the framebuffer you are currently using, which is set to drive a display.

With your Coffee Lake UHD 630 IGPU that means that the AAPL,ig-platform-id entry needs to be changed from <07009B3E> to <0300923E>.

AS the GT 710 is natively supported that is all you need to do.

I would recommend you use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to Clone your current macOS drive to a new larger SSD. This can be undertaken in macOS. CCC offers a 30-day trial.

You will need to copy your working OpenCore EFI Folder to the EFI Partition on the new SSD, once the Clone has completed.

 

[Nicoth2709]

Thank you very much. This is all I need to know

I will try it tomorrow and hopefully it will work

 

[kanu86]

Thank you very much. This is all I need to know

I will try it tomorrow and hopefully it will work

Did you face any issue post installing GT710, If yes then was above solution worked for you

I have a Nvidia GT710 with me but post installtion GT710 and selecting the relevant HDD to boot screen goes in Infinite loops and macOS Catalina doesn't boot up.

 

[Edhawk]

@kanu86 Which version of the GT 710 are you using, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI or Zotec etc? Some makes work better than others in Catalina and Big Sur.