macOS Sierra 10.12 installs onto a 4,1 (with 5,1 firmware) just fine

6/14/2016

Just wanted everyone with a 4,1 or 5,1 to know that we have slipped under the knife one more time.

The 3,1 will require a few tricks to work with Sierra but so far the 4,1/5,1 are easy breezy.

Hopefully they don't titghten things down in the final GM.

In other good news, Nvidia has already released a Web Driver for 10.12 (see our drivers page) and it has HINTS of Pascal support. So I'd say it's a fair bet that we will be seeing GTX1080 and GTX1070 running on cMP soon.

Hats off to Nvidia for standing by us as Apple continues trying to become a toy company.

8 Comments

Brian Dunstone

6/15/2016 07:35:22 am

To hear of two potential pieces of good news simultaineously is wonderful indeed. I`m sure that I speak for many who look forward to yet another major reincarnation of our much loved Mac Pro`s.
Truly, what other machine has had such an almost incomprehensible following? Thank you MacVidCards and Nvidia for giving us the chance of breathing much more digital oxygen for the future.

Norbert

6/15/2016 07:49:38 am

I'm waiting too :) keep up the good work

TheJ

6/15/2016 11:17:02 am

I have a MP 3,1 with SSD and was waiting for AMD's Polaris cards (now announced) so that I could get Metal support. I wasn't expecting an other concerns with Sierra!! :-(

If there are any details on the "tricks" to getting Sierra installed on a MP3,1 (and any recommended hardware upgrades) please post the links !!!

Christian Anndersen

6/22/2016 01:35:22 am

try
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-12-sierra-unsupported-macs-thread.1977128/

let me know how you go you will need a new wifi/bluetooth card but you can get it from macvidcards

MacVador

6/17/2016 05:48:41 am

That's sound like great news! Hoping we will have the real opportunity to get that stuff working in our tuned cMPs.

There is a misprint in the news: we have to read 10.12 for web driver and not 10.11 ;-)

The Iron Giant

7/12/2016 10:49:29 am

Does the GTX 1070/1080 include EFI boot support necessary to show the Apple logo, or will it require flashing as in previous series cards?

MVC

7/14/2016 01:54:31 pm

It will require flashing.

Rukiri

8/15/2016 07:38:08 pm

Nvidia should know about the hackintosh community, so why not keep developing drivers for those users? And maybe get Apple to use decent cards.

macOS Sierra 10.12 installs onto a 4,1 (with 5,1 firmware) just fine

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