El Cheapo Dell 790 & 7010, NVidia GT710, Opencore 0.6.4 Big Sur

For those with a Dell Optiplex 7010 i3,i5,i7 lying about, I got it to work with Opencore 0.6.4 and an SMBios 15,1. I even did a bit of playing around and got it to work on my Dell 790. This must be done in UEFI mode. Don't forget for the older Dells and HPs, the UEFI is the half-baked UEFI 1.0 version, so when you format the drive and create the EFI partition and APFS partition, it cant read the EFI partition because it is created in GPT. (Therefore it won't boot because it won't see your...

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Author: TimMak