Hello friends. I am new here but in the last few months I've irreparably fallen down the rabbit hole in regard to the 4,1/5,1/xserve update. Now, I'm not going to go down that long list of community contributions as it far exceeds Santa's naughty/nice list. You all as a community have shared the knowledge.. Thank You.
In the spirit of all things Mac.
A dell oem 2gb card circa 2017 based on the Polaris 21 gpu and 14mn. pn/ 02H81
It's price varies but is around $100 give or take on eBay.
"The AMD Radeon RX 560D does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 65 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort. Radeon RX 560D is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 interface."
-link to article-
supposedly native support with Mojave. There maybe a clearance issue for anyone especially the few who have dared the sata port mod. (not linked due to high risk) That in mind I attempted to to look for some sort of alternative heatsink.
- link to amazon listing - the availability is may 6th. But I am pretty certain that this one is based on the Lexa GPU and isn't natively supported. Maybe that heat sink's fan wiring soldered directly to the oem rx560d or even a side mounted connector would suffice. I'm not trying to mass produce these so just a straight 30w soldering iron should do it for the novices out there.
There is a write up about a link to another writeup unlocking the rx460d that someone used to unlock a rx560d on redit
-link to article-
I might do that after the heatsink modification to double check but I believe that would increase the voltage draw and my main goal was to have a capable AMD card for Mojave (inside) an xserve without having to use Nvidia web drivers or spend the money for a AMD rx560x mxm just yet. I have set a few of these oem dell cards aside for when/if the community does efi flashing, for boot. Thoughts?
In the spirit of all things Mac.
A dell oem 2gb card circa 2017 based on the Polaris 21 gpu and 14mn. pn/ 02H81
It's price varies but is around $100 give or take on eBay.
"The AMD Radeon RX 560D does not require any additional power connector, its power draw is rated at 65 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort. Radeon RX 560D is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x8 interface."
-link to article-
supposedly native support with Mojave. There maybe a clearance issue for anyone especially the few who have dared the sata port mod. (not linked due to high risk) That in mind I attempted to to look for some sort of alternative heatsink.
- link to amazon listing - the availability is may 6th. But I am pretty certain that this one is based on the Lexa GPU and isn't natively supported. Maybe that heat sink's fan wiring soldered directly to the oem rx560d or even a side mounted connector would suffice. I'm not trying to mass produce these so just a straight 30w soldering iron should do it for the novices out there.
There is a write up about a link to another writeup unlocking the rx460d that someone used to unlock a rx560d on redit
-link to article-
I might do that after the heatsink modification to double check but I believe that would increase the voltage draw and my main goal was to have a capable AMD card for Mojave (inside) an xserve without having to use Nvidia web drivers or spend the money for a AMD rx560x mxm just yet. I have set a few of these oem dell cards aside for when/if the community does efi flashing, for boot. Thoughts?
