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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte EX58 UD3R
- CPU
- X5650
- Graphics
- Asus RX580 8GB
- Mac
Question is relative to my legacy EX58-UD3R with a Xeon 5650 rig.
My best SMBIOS has always been MacPro 5,1. That was deemed unsupported in Catalina. I installed Catalina using Clover by switching to iMac14,2 SMBIOS. It works but does not function as well as MacPro 5,1 did. Especially in that the Base Clock only maxes out a 12x instead of the 22x of MacPro 5,1. So,
The Question:
If I switch to Opencore (much to learn there) will it allow me to use my MacPro 5,1 SMBIOS and circumvent the arbitrary Apple Unsupported limitation to run Catalina (and possibly Big Sur)?
In other words can Opencore spoof one machine to Apple and still support the actual hardware one is using.
My best SMBIOS has always been MacPro 5,1. That was deemed unsupported in Catalina. I installed Catalina using Clover by switching to iMac14,2 SMBIOS. It works but does not function as well as MacPro 5,1 did. Especially in that the Base Clock only maxes out a 12x instead of the 22x of MacPro 5,1. So,
The Question:
If I switch to Opencore (much to learn there) will it allow me to use my MacPro 5,1 SMBIOS and circumvent the arbitrary Apple Unsupported limitation to run Catalina (and possibly Big Sur)?
In other words can Opencore spoof one machine to Apple and still support the actual hardware one is using.
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