Intel HD3000 VRAM upgrade

[LongVCap]

Hi guys, new here and having trouble finding confirmation for my set up (with an up to date guide).

I have a 15 inch early 2011 MBP (8,2) that I managed to revive disabling the AMD GPU (by manually removing the resistor and the EFI variable) like described here: https://realmacmods.com/macbook-2011-radeon-gpu-disable/ . I was wondering if I will still be able to boost my vram to 1-2gb on Sierra(10.12.6)? Because it is clearly stated that the mod I did on my mbp will not survive a NVRAM reset. Btw, I upgraded to 16gb of RAM and have an SSD to boot + HD in optical bay.

Thank you all for the advice!

 

[MultiFinder17]

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