[tech] Gothamburg upgrade

[Andrew Adamson]

This chain got started in the wheel@ list as part of another conversation, 
and doesn't need to be a closed one. Edited for relevancy.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:13:32 +0800
From: Melissa Star <melissa at netexperts.com.au>
To: James Cox <james at cox.cx>
Cc: Wheel <wheel at ucc.asn.au>, committee-only at ucc.asn.au
Subject: Re: [wheel] Wheel application process

Hi James,
Reading up about it now on MacRumors… 

To run Mojave without “graphics issues” we would basically need a “small metal video card” and then Mojave patcher :)

Small, so it fits, and doesn’t overheat the machine, and supporting the metal API. 

Possibly, something like this:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HP-Nvidia-GeForce-GT630-2GB-DDR3-128bit-PCIe-x16-Graphics-Card-DP-DVI-702084-001/202508328689?hash=item2f266fdef1:g:OOsAAOSw0qdceHRo 

There are also mixed reports with the GT710, and Nvidia CPUs. I could buy one to try it out.


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      On 12 Mar 2019, at 8:10 am, James Cox <james at cox.cx> wrote:

Gothamburg is an Xserve 3,1 and on its max supported OS. (I've just updated the wiki)

Since it's not a production system I don't see anything wrong with upgrading it past supported territory...

But to get to Mojave we would need a new GPU.
I'm not sure there's any point upgrading it only as far as say High Sierra?

[RME]~Coxy

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 01:56, Melissa Star <melissa at netexperts.com.au> wrote:
      That issue aside, I would love to bring Gothunberg up to date and have an X-Serve I could actually use on campus. If I could have decent user privileges there, and you agreed, I could get it up to a more recent
      OS/X, and put irc and other relevant apps on it, and would actually end up using it a lot in addition to Ashera.

      I’m not sure if it otherwise gets used very much.