OCLP Advice: Maxing out my imac 11,2 (21.5" 2010) - Am I doing it right?

DISCLAIMER: Please be gentle. I know this is an old machine - before people tell me it's not worth it or whatever I just want to say that the whole project cost me less than $100, and I hold a strong personal belief that saving old hardware is important. Keeping that in mind here's my situation:

Someone gave me an old imac 11,2 for free. It's stock except for upgrading the ram to 16gb and it's currently running OCLP Sequoia. I have acquired the following upgrades: 256gb ssd, xeon L3426 (4c/8t), AMD wx4150 4gb (flashed with modded EFI-GOP MAC bios).

Goal: Have Sequoia installed with all the hw upgrades and dual boot win11.

My plan is below. Does my plan make sense? Is there anything I'm missing or not understanding? I guess I'm just a little nervous about everything and don't want to take it apart like 100 times. Any advice or stories would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

My plan is:

  1. Install all the HW upgrades (except GPU)
  2. Do a fresh install of macOS with OCLP doing all the usual OCLP steps
  3. Run OCLP gpu patcher for the AMD gpu upgrade
  4. shutdown, and install the gpu and boot
  5. Once the gpu is working then install windows
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