MP 6,1 Getting my hands on a Mac Pro 6.1 8-core D700

[polaxgr]

Hi all, as I was reassured this Mac Pro works well(hopefully), made in 2017/2018. It's got 64gb RAM and 1TB SSD. I am gonna keep it as it is watching benchmarks and reading some stuff on the web, the 8-core is one of, if not the best choice. Anyways, wanted to ask some things. I wanna run WIN10 via bootcamp so I wanna know the best drivers out there (ESPECIALLY for the gpus) - where to get them, and another important thing is to keep the temperature down so I would like also a program to do that in windows (iStat or Macs fan control for macOS) - any input for those? ideal rpms for the fan? temperature? Basically w/e you can share, please do. I am a novice!!

 

[hwojtek]

Just your regular legacy AMD driver from https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp-previous

Great if you have it for free, just know that since it does need Open Core to run a recent MacOS (just like the predecessor, the 5,1) - the lack of expansion compared to the 5,1 and known issues with cooling make it a much less convincing alternative to a 5,1 than it used to be.

 

[polaxgr]

Just your regular legacy AMD driver from https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp-previous

Great if you have it for free, just know that since it does need Open Core to run a recent MacOS (just like the predecessor, the 5,1) - the lack of expansion compared to the 5,1 and known issues with cooling make it a much less convincing alternative to a 5,1 than it used to be.

Not for free, no. No need to expand it, just as is. Thanks a lot!

 

[avro707]

Not for free, no. No need to expand it, just as is. Thanks a lot!

You should be able to run 12.6 Monterey without Opencore.

Assuming rest of computer is healthy you have a nice little machine.