keep mac mini mid 2010 el capitan from shutting down

I always first installed win 7, installed bootcamp support drivers, then made the update to win 10. After a few days the windows file system always got corrupted so that it could not be repaired in any way. On my mac pro 2010 i initially had severe problems with win 10. When you update to windows 10, make a CLEAN REINSTALL. 😟 Since no current Mac has upgradeable hardware it is also something you cannot fix yourself in most cases. This may change in the future but this along with gaming is an area the Mac is very poor at due to Apple's failure to keep Mac hardware up-to-date especially with regards to video cards. If your requirement was with a view to doing Virtual Reality, none of the virtual reality headsets support any model of Mac at least in Mac OS X despite the fact that in theory some models of Mac might be fast enough.

It should therefore be possible to use a GTX 1080 for example in Windows 10 via Boot Camp but not on the Mac side. After than you should be able to swap over to the newer card, let Windows boot and auto-detect the new card and auto-download the new drivers, you will not see anything on the screen until Windows has booted since the Mac side will not support the card. You can use newer cards in Windows via Boot Camp, to do this you need first to install Windows using an older video card that Apple's Boot Camp drivers support.

At the moment the newer GTX 1080 is not supported at all in OS X either with Apple's own driver or Nvidia's own driver. I believe the AMD R9 280x is the newest AMD card you can use in your Mac Pro at least for OS X at the moment, for Nvidia cards the GTX Titan X is still the top but most expensive model the next and more common choice is the GTX 980Ti. If you use Apple software then AMD video cards are the better choice, if you use Adobe software then Nvidia cards are better. Do you use Apple Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, etc.

Keep mac mini mid 2010 el capitan from shutting down