“Well, not everyone can have the same level of technical knowledge. Create Pro asked for DSM2 for comment about his cards… It turns out that DSM2 wasn’t prepared to lose his intellectual property by just selling modified Titan Ridge card, he would only sell them if you signed an NDA agreeing not to share the firmware he had developed to make this work. There is also a thread on the Mac Rumours forum, which is in English. You may recall we posted an article back in March 2019 entitled Mac Pro 5,1 Cheese-grater With Thunderbolt - The Impossible Is Now Possible in which we showed, with the help of Create Pro that it was possible to use a Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge Thunderbolt Card with the caveat that you had to boot the Mac Pro into Windows 10 to load the Windows drivers before rebooting in the macOS to continue working.Ĭreate Pro then discovered a conversation on a German Hackintosh forum discussing a custom firmware one member, DSM2, had created allowing for native compatibility for the Titan Ridge card in macOS.

It is turning out to be a challenge to implement, but we continue to update this article as new information becomes available. Back in late February 2020, we heard that there a solution has been found, which enables MacPro Cheese-grater owners to install a Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 card into a Mac Pro 5,1 and to be able to use Thunderbolt 3 in macOS.

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