As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I still have one of the “cheese grater” Mac Pros around. It’s a 2009 that I upgraded somewhat with SSD, 6 core Xeon and a few other small goodies. As I split my time between Linux, Windows and macOS, I like having it around but can’t really justify getting a newer machine.

Anyway, I’m upgrading my monitor to wide screen monitor and the old graphics card (Apple branded AMD Radeon 7970) was unlikely to be too happy about it. Plus, I had a spare AMD RX470 lying around from upgrading the graphics card in my PC. The Hackintosh community seems to generally recommend AMD cards for newer versions of OS X, so I figured I’d give it a try. The RX470 is listed as a supported card in newer versions of OS X after all.