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any Mac with core2duo and on handles it fine. To spot the error I use an old-time game i play to check. See if you can compare on an older machine in the hood. For what you want to do it should word OK. Compare the result with an older core2duo iMac before you buy into the: it´s not a gaming machine, OS X is not for gaming etc. My experience is that some iMacs from this generation underperforms to the extreme when it comes to real time rendering with lots of lighting. It is not for the faint hearted to do so. The gpu on the 2011 iMac is indeed replaceable.

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An awful lot less than your GPU upgrade and it's a dedicated gaming machine. Almost 2 years ago, I picked up an XBox360 120gb for the UK equivalent of about $130. Now the PS4 and XBox One are here, you can buy previous models for a very competitive price. I'm not big on gaming, but I do like to play occasionally. Keep your iMac for other tasks and buy a secondhand XBox360 or PS3 to play games on. Yes, you can play a bit of WoW or App based games without problems and some big-name games have been converted for Macs with others available on Steam, but if you are looking to run high powered, graphic intensive games (you mention BF4, which is a good example) at reasonable framerates, here is my advice:

Yes, the graphics circuitry is soldered to the main logic board (motherboard in PC speak) - your iMac is the same model as mine.Īlthough changing the GPU is theoretically possible, it would be very costly (several hundred dollars or equivalent in your local currency, even if you can find somewhere that can/will do it).Īt the end of the day, previous posters on this thread are quite correct - most Macs (yours included) are not really built for gaming. So, the iMac you have is never going to be a high powered gaming computer. The GPUs need to be specifically for an Apple iMac.

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Only within their respective model years.ĪND you cannot install any old Sockted GPU chip that is currently available in the market place for Windows PCs, either. The options for these model iMacs were 1 GB or 2 GB VRAM GPUs.Īll the various GPUs I mentioned are NOT interchangeable between othe iMac model years. It will be very difficult replacement/upgrade if you are a complete newbie to doing computer system hardware upgrades and newbie to Macs.įor late 2009, 27 inch screen iMacs, the only other installable GPU options was a 512 MB VRAM GPU chip.įor 2010, 27 inch models, the base models had 512 MB VRAM GPUs with the only other GPU option of a 1 GB VRAM GPU.įor 2011, 27 inch screen iMac models, these came, also, with a base 512 MB VRAM GPU chip. While the doing is difficult, you can only install a upgrade GPU that was one of the other GPU options offered for that iMac model year, only.įinding these optional, higher VRAM GPUs will be very expensive to obtain and very difficult to install. The 2009-2011, 27 inch screen models have a socketed GPU Chip ( similar idea of the old ZIF socketed CPUs of older, more upgradeable Macs of the past). So, no way to swap out a GPU in these models.

The 21 inch screen iMac models always had their GPUs soldered to the logic board.

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does being 32 bit affects gaming performance and rendering performance (in sony vegas) and if so, how grat would be the performance from 32 to 64? to see if it is worth it to pay the 300$ apple charges me to replace the SuperDrive.

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i have a 'hack' tho that makes it able to use the rest of the ram (it does work) but my CD reader is being sissy and it wont accept me any disk other than movies or music CD's, it used to read everything, but i don't know if damage or software updates made it puke the disk every god **** time and that is why i cant go up to 64 bit. If this is not doable, would someone like to buy a mid-2011 iMac? xDĪn other question, does having windows 32bit can affect the gaming performance? Specialy in BF4? I have 4 gigs of ram, i know 32bit can only access 3.2 or so. Does the iMac has a PCI or PCIe where the graphics card goes or it is a custom mother board with the graphics soldered to it? I intend to use it on bootcamp, if this is doable, would bootcamo have problem recognizing it? I want to upgrade to an iMac's graphics card, not any card like a GTX 780, but just a better version of this mobile card with at least 512mb on Vram.

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I mean that 256mb of Vram is absolutley ridiculous, barely any game is satified with that vram this days, i only can play battlefield 3 at 1080p in low settings at 25 fps, and at 720p at 50, in god **** low settings, so, it is pretty ****** up, now, i can't play BF4, shure, i can play and plays well, except for sudden lag, or freezing, the FPS drop down to 0 and stays there for half a seccond to 3 secconds, then i can keep playing (barely) Is it possible to upgrade the mid-2011 iMac's graphics card? What i mean by this and wht i intend to do with it.

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