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It too have an expresscard slot.īoth 2570P and 4530s are available for low prices on ebay.Product Description DIY Bundle 500GB Mercury Electra 6G SSD And HDD Kit For iMac 27-Inch (Mid 2011) Size 250GB
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Alternatively consider a 12" HP 2570P, the most powerful tiny machine that can function as a full desktop replacement in upgraded i7-quad form. It can have the LCD self-upgraded to 1080P, has extensive Hackintosh support and best of all, has iGPU an expresscard slot making NVidia eGPU implementation inexpensive and easy. I'd recommend you consider a 15" HP 4530s as a iMac replacement instead. So negative is you'd be running 2 LCDs, positive of that is that all pci-e bandwidth would be for video graphics processing.Īn eGPU would be possible but I'd recommend you evaluate the costs involved (Thunderbolt-to-pcie adapter) to see if it's worth it even before you consider the technical challenge to get it going. Best you could do is connected a second LCD to the output ports on the eGPU video card's LCD ports. As there is no iGPU you can't use NVidia Optimus or Lucid Logix Virtu to be able to render a image using the eGPU and display it to the internal LCD. You have a "AMD Radeon HD 6970M (Apple)" dGPU. I'm attaching AIDA report to this message.
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P.s I am ready to spend about 500 bucks for the egpu upgrade (without cost of a gpu itself) Maybe it is better to upgrade ram/hdd/sdd first and then begin building egpu? Or maybe someone has a complete recipe for my case? What can you recommend?ĭid i forget to mention something crucial about eGpu installing?. (as i have mentioned i will do RAM upgrade, could this parameter change due to ram upgrading?) Anyway, i did everything like it was described in faq, but i don't have any entry with eight dights.
Mid 2011 imac hard drive replacement install#
I tried to figure out my imac's tolud to understand is it possible or not to install egpu without all this reallocating thing. Is it possible without heavy losses in performance? Of course i want to play games on native 27" imac's display without connecting other displays. This is really not a problem, but as i have read, this device reduces the speed of Thunderbolt connection form 10 gbit/s to 5? Is that true? And - if it is - how bad is this reducing? Will i recieve significent improvment in performance if i change my dGpu amd 6970m 1gb to nvidia 760 4gb, but connected via thunderbolt ? Imac doesn't have a pci-e slot, but it posses thunderbolt. And without answers for these questions i'm afraid of starting the huge project like this (yeah, it's huge for me, i'm not an engineer, just a beginner screenwriter).
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it's very complicated for me.Īfter reading manuals and posts i understand that i have 5 very imprortant questions. The first 3 points are pretty simple or easy to-do, following the instructions, but when we speak about eGPU. ġ) changing my HDD (the apple pays for the party, thanks to imac seagate hard drive replacement program),Ĥ)That is the most difficult part - creating eGPU system. (too many words i suggest)īut i hope it is possible because i want to upgrade my imac.
So the first - and the main question - is it possible? If not, just tell me and dont read this crap. I didnt manage to find any information about possibility of creating egpu system for iMac mid 2011. I've posted the description of my problem to "egpu experiences 2.0" thread, but i think it's a better idea to start a new thread.
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