We put a 1tb SSD in our $400 iMac!
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In today's video Noah and I are upgrading out cheap iMac with a 1tb SSD, possible thanks to the very cheap prices since the SSD crash a little while ago! Let's see how it goes...
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Just an FYI for anyone looking to do this and maximise the performance of SSD, the Optical drive connection on the MotherBoard is only capable of SATA II speeds (3Gb/s ~ 300MB/s), the connection meant for the HDD is a full-fat SATA III bus capable of the the full 6Gb/s (~600MB/s) data transfer rate. You can get both running @6Gb/s but you need to get a proprietary cable and take the MLB completely out to plug it in (iFixit sells the tools and cable). These most, if not all, of these iMacs meant to have the option of having a regular 3.5" HDD + SSD (which could be mounted underneath the ODD [optical disk drive] ). Again, this requires you to get the extra cable so that you can populate the plug on the backside of the MLB. In the end, this gives you (should you so desire) 1 SSD + 1 HDD + 1 ODD; you can have your cake and eat it too!
removing the DVD drive may negatively impact the airflow. The flow may be designed with the drive in mind so the air pass-thru like an air duct. Think about the air ducts in your home. Without it or if there are leaks, the air doesn't flow properly.
I found this to be the case as well, when I took mine out. An SSD would be good in that spot anyway. (:
@@WarriorsPhoto If you connect a SSD to the DVD's SATA-connector, it will still run on SATA2 speed for some reason. At least at mine set-up. Better keep the DVD and buy one bigger SSD in stead of 2.
luxembourger Great point. I could also use it as a spot for an older SSD with a Fusion Drive. Wait I already did. ;)
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Agreed.
Once your Mac's power cable is unplugged, wait 5 to 10 minutes for the capacitors in the power-supply to discharge. If you're worried about getting shocked, this should eliminate the risk. The caps will be charged in the power supply only if the cord has recently been plugged in.
I have this same machine, purchased off a guy about three years ago. He had already had an SSD installed and 12 gigs of memory. Unless you need some heavy processing power it's a great, fast computer. My first Mac, an SE in '88 was over the hill in two years. And it was like that with macs for a long time. The past several years though it can be a long time between upgrades.
The past decade has shown the upside of a decrease in Moore’s law, you can comfortably use a 7/8 year old machine nowadays. Sure, the pace of innovation is slower but products have a much longer lifespan
You should definitely wear gloves when trying these types of upgrades. Luke didnt emphasize how dangerous that power supply can be. Even after turning off the machine, the power supply can still hold a charge. So be extremely careful to not touch that power supply without proper protection.
He also criticized the airflow going through the PSU but it needs cooling as well so that airflow design was intentional.
The fact they didn't power cycle it to discharge as much from the caps makes no sense to me. It's tech 101
@@jasonpoole7073 @ the iMac took a shit lol
That is why at my shop, I make sure my guys discharge the power supply, and discharge all the capacitors, by unplugging the iMac, and holding the power button for about 40-60 seconds.
No gave a "Fat Like" for Noah. 😂
There's 8 now. XD
I don't understand why you disconnected the motherboard to install a SSD, couldn't you just have plugged it in like a normal drive?
@Matthew, I just upgraded the hard drive on my iMac to SSd. I did not have to remove the logic board.
but is it possible to boot up from the SSD as an external drive?
Paolo Ambrocio. Yes, as long as it has an OS installed. Just hold down the Option Key during boot up to select a different boot drive. They had to tilt out the MLB to run a SATA & Power cable from the back of the MLB, so it’s a 2nd drive, as opposed to replacing the original drive, which is much easier to do.
Have you thought about maybe 3d printing a shroud that directs the output of the gpu fan directly to the heatsink? I feel like the fan is kinda far away from the heatsink. It might also give you a place to set your SSD securely
With how tight the space will be in there between the fan and the GPU heat sink (once the screen is back in place) I imagine the air flow will be just fine to the heatsink.
@@MegaTechpc I'm looking at 13:33 and see there is a gap off to the left of the SSD and towards the hard drive that doesn't lead directly to the heatsink. I was thinking some air could get trapped there and the cooling wouldn't be as efficient. Especially if he's using a GTX 980m, efficient cooling is going to be really important.
@@ymxb6253 Judging by how much air seems to currently be exhausting from the CD-slot, I imagine that once they seal that up the GPU heat sink will be getting plenty of airflow.
@@MegaTechpc alrighty. I have no experience with imacs, just my two cents
Optical drives are not dead.
Trusteft yeah, they should buy a usb SuperDrive look alike housing and have it connected via usb at least.
Compared to 8-10 years ago, they're completely dead.
Before you used CDs for movies, installing OS, Installing drivers with your new products, Music etc.
These days all of those things can be downloaded over the internet.
You never used CDs for movies. Well, in some Asian countries VCD was a thing, but for the most part of the world it wasn't a thing.
WAIT, you mean in 2018 you can actually download drivers from the internet? What's that?
Trusteft Movies on CDs was huge 10 years ago... I’m just gonna assume you’re some random troll.
Oh the irony.
Just install a fan control program. Then you can control the fan speed manually until you reinstall the sensor.
Why not replace the old HDD with a second SSD and put the two SDDs in a RAID 0 configuration? Also, didn't you replace the thermal paste while you were in there?
Charlie P hell they should’ve upgraded the CPU while going in there.
haikutoru to what? It’s already got the i7 2600
@@lukemiani Yeah, I need to know (what CPU model number) - because I'm considering doing what you guys are doing. Pray tell !
@@lukemiani As far as I know, the i7 2600 "Sandybridge" CPU is the highest spec CPU these iMacs can have. That said, if you have an i5 instead then go ahead and get the i7 Sandybridge.
I have taken apart one of these too many times to count. If you screw up and forget the sensor, just install Macs Fan Control and set the fan speeds problem solved. You are better off getting a bracket and ditching the old drive and putting in that new one. For those uncertian, this is an A1412 27" 2011 iMac with a 3.4ghz quad core processor. They are cheap because the graphics cards are garbage.
Doesn’t OWC sell a mount for the ssd, so it doesn’t have to sit in an awkward spot?
So I got my 2011 imac this week. With a 256 GB SSD and 16 gigs of RAM and a 2 gig gpu, all of which seems to be pretty performant. I am concerned about the cooling though so taking out the optical drive looks like a good first move. Maybe changing the thermal paste and pads. Looking forward to seeing that.
If you remove the optical drive, you will have to install fan control software to manage the fans. Macs Fan Control will work. Changing out thermal paste on the GPU requires special thermal paste or special pads.
should have replaced the HDD with the SSD and left the optical drive - theres also no need to take out the board for that and its a super easy job...
looking forward to the grafic card update - wondering what you can replace it with - have the same iMac!
Agreed.. Although there was an option that came with SSD, and it was mounted behind the DVD drive from the factory.
DVD drives are like floppy drives now. I used my external drive maybe 3 times last year....to rip blue ray movies. The extra cooling is far more useful.
ninline2000 The DVD drive is there to create better airflow through the heat sink from the fan.
@@TarynnElizabeth619 The DVD does nothing for airflow. It's just there and the air flows around it. It might not hurt to leave it in but as long as you block the disk slot it won't hurt to take it out.
use dosdude tool to install Mojave on this as it is unsupported I think. :)
Most people don't know, that there was an option all be it very expensive, for SSD on these from Apple, and it was mounted behind the DVD drive. I've had 2 in for repair with that option, One was a 21.5 inch 2011, the other was a 27 inch 2011.
Why leave the original HDD in there? Doesn’t the noise and heat coming off of the spinning disc kinda take away from the idea of upgrading this machine to something modern on a budget?
Enjoying the new format!
When you nix the optical drive, are you going to block off the old slot for air flow?
Nevermind - I got to the part of the video where you said you'd do it. As you were!
I wasn't expecting to hear a Cavetown "This Is Home" remix on a tech video but here we are.
Me either and I want that remix! Do you know which one it is?
Hey Luke, I bought that same SSD over the summer. I put it in a 2010 white unibody for my son to use. It’s been good so far, using it 2-3 times a week.
Good video and I am excited for that GPU upgrade video. Have a good holiday.
I also put in a 1TB Crucial SSD in my 2010 Macbook. A SECOND one. The first died in...7 DAYS! Hopefully, the current one will last for a while..
Really? A Crucial drive died that fast? That’s genuinely surprising, you must’ve gotten unlucky there
@@lukemiani That's exactly what their support team said :)) (power-cycling didn't help). In any case, I returned it and got a brand new one from Amazon. The first one was from a third-party seller, not Crucial themselves, so it could have been a refurbished device marketed as new...or it could also just be bad luck, as you suggest. I just saw the spinning beach ball in Xcode, had to turn off the laptop, and then...no SSD.
Why don't you use a caddy for the SSD it'll be safer and easier than taping and stuff like that.
Probably because it would block airflow more
@@johnj8639 he means ditch the main crappy drive and put the 1TB in a caddy and in the HDD spot. it would not block anything.
Because we still want the 2tb drive for file storage, alternatively if you meant an optical drive caddy because they run at slower speeds
Luke Miani The odd is sata3 so its the same speed. And i did some tests about cooling with and without an odd, and its better with one installed. I guess it directs the airflow better to the heatsink.
@@lukemiani
First, I applaud you're trying to upgrade old hardware to make it more "usable" with today's apps and websites. I like the vids so far (I've seen maybe half a dozen you have produced). Thank you for doing them.
But, two things guys - and I give this as free advice because I know you're not hardcore geeks so maximizing the system is not as big a deal to you. But if you truly want to get every bit of performance out of this old machine with SSD's and RAM upgrades then consider:
1. Everymac.com (see bitly*) will show you that you can upgrade the RAM to 32Gb's (I use 16GB's in my 2012 MBP and I still max it out almost daily) * bit.ly/2zjUbUs
2. as seen in the YT vid I reference here: czcams.com/video/HDWZLPoq__4/video.html
you can see that buying 2 SSD's and setting them up into a RAID 0 configuration (watch the whole vid - it's pretty easy) will LITERALLY almost DOUBLE the I/O speed of your SSD storage! BAM! That right there will make the ol' spinner hard drive look like a piece of toast!
Yeah. You're welcome. ;-) LOL :-D
Nope!!! I still want my optical drive in 2018!!! Who else is with me???
I want to replace my DVD drive with a Blu-ray drive.
@@AppleReviews I just don't consider a PC complete unless it has an optical drive (mine is a Samsung BD player). PC's are supposed to be versatile so I want as many options for media as I can get, even if its true that I rarely use it. The point is that I might NEED to use it, so I can.
MegaTechpc depends on everybody and how they use the PC,my pc case doesn't even even have a 5.25 bay for a dvd
Still have a Super Drive which I can connect to my MacBook Air if I want to watch a DVD movie :)
I have this same machine, I hardly use the optical drive but it does come in handy for offloading family picts and such. Nice to have them on a hard media for posterity. If you remove it you can purchase a plug in one for about $30 so no biggie.
The cable to the new SSD? Not sure if I missed something, but on the video it was in fast forward whilst you started to remove the logic board, this continues for sometime, and then magically the logic board is ready to be screwed back in. Where did the cable come from/connect to? This part if the video is rather important and seems to be missing. I am very happy to be corrected if my old eyes missed it.
You do have to cover that old DVD slot.. The graphics card depends on that airflow....And do not remove that foam divider wall. It's what forces the air through the GPU heat sink. Then out the top...
Great video and teardown, the other reason people get those machines is to double the throughput by doing a Raid 0 with two SSD’s It makes the applications wicked fast, my mid 2011 is at 980 MBs read speeds. By the way how are those cheap SSD’s?
Ohhhhhh....well that was hella complicated! Maybe one day when I have absolutely nothing on my agenda i might attempt this! Meanwhile I'll just settle for replacing the existing drive with a new on and leaving the SSD upgrade for another day!
Great video guys!
Is t coming any updates of this machines this year? Just bought one of those with i5 and can´t wait to watch more of your upgrade! Thanks for the video !!!!Awesome!
interesting guys, how you made this video with the camera attached to a kangaroo who kept jumping all over the screen, it gives you a head ache.
a this is home remix as the intro music?? goddamn
I want to see data transfer speeds bench marks with the new SSD installed. I look forward to seeing Windows running on this iMac, and the new graphics card with 8gb vRAM.
It's sata 2 bro, so your probably looking at 250 megabytes per second. The iMac will not achieve full writing speeds or reading speeds that the SSD is capable of.
thanks for the tip @@trustme2001
Just wanna be sure, is this a 2011 27" imac?
It is
Great video guys...I might follow a lot of your queues on my 2011 iMac.
Could you consider getting a nice shotgun mic for your GH4? Maybe something like the Shure VP83F Lenshopper? Audio quality would go way up with a nice mic.
I’m using a condenser mic from Blue, the acoustics in this room are horrendous so there wasn’t much we could do, I assure you we tried
@@lukemiani thanks for your videos.......last year i buyed a late 2013 27” iMac, not what i wanted, i wanted this 2011 because they are simpler to open, but the 300€ the seller asked was a offer i can’t refuse.
Now i’m looking for a 2011 to upgrade, the 2013 is stock, but i have a big doubt, what is the problem of touching the power suply, even with the power cable unpluged ?!
Best regards.
TECH NOVICE here! What older model iMac would you recommend for an online college student who must watch lots of videos in addition to typical word processing stuff, email and web browsing? If so, what kinds of upgrades would you advise? When shopping, what should I look for?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Why leave the spinning rust (HDD) in, it kinda makes the whole exercise redundant.
Because its still great for games and file storage in general. Its more reliable too. And its 2 (TWO) TB!!
Uhh... Storage. I believe you could even use it as a Time Machine backup if you didn't need the space... or go full Mac and convert the SSD+HDD into a Fusion drive.
Storage drive???
Luke, you saide you make lots of research for the upgrade’s, what type of Gpu can i install without having to install other controllers for the graphics ?!
Best regards.
First, I applaud you're trying to upgrade old hardware to make it more "useable" with today's apps and websites. I like the vids so far (I've seen maybe half a dozen you have produced). Thank you for doing them.
But, two things guys - and I give this as free advice because I know you're not hardcore geeks so maximizing the system is not as big a deal to you. But if you truly want to get every bit of performance out of this old machine with SSD's and RAM upgrades then consider:
1. Everymac.com (see bitly*) will show you that you can upgrade the RAM to 32Gb's (I use 16GB's in my 2012 MBP and I still max it out almost daily) * bit.ly/2zjUbUs
2. as seen in the YT vid I reference here: czcams.com/video/HDWZLPoq__4/video.html
you can see that buying 2 SSD's and setting them up into a RAID 0 configuration (watch the whole vid - it's pretty easy) will LITERALLY almost DOUBLE the I/O speed of your SSD storage! BAM! That right there will make the ol' spinner hard drive look like a piece of *toast!*
Yeah. You're welcome. LOL :-D
might double, but at the cost of potential catastrophic failure. Better to have SSD and backup to hard drive connected via SATA than to USB drive.
I would like to see real world tests of the SSD speed like boot time and apps launch time, also simulated SSD tests would be great too. I was tipped that this iMac is only SATA 2, is that correct ? Was the original internal SATA HDD 7200RPM in this iMac ?
I have an 2008 iMac with a 1TB SSD in it, it's pretty darn fast
*watches on mid 2011 imac*
Not make any sense why didn't you just replace the hard hard with the SSD drive less work and you keep the cd drive.
Nice to see that Noah took my advice from the last video, :D.
Luke, I think if you had the microphone closer to you, the audio wouldn't sound echoey.
Trust me we tried to get the audio better, there’s a mic about 2 feet from me, just out of shot, and we brought pillows and blankets for soundproofing. The acoustics in that room are simply atrocious (I won’t be in there much longer though so don’t worry)
Would a microphone close up to you say like a earphone microphone work anybetter?
OWC has a kit for 2011s with a custom heat sensor that fixs the fan problem.....$130 for a 1TB upgrade kit with a custom SSD bracket.
Hello!!! first of all thank you for all your videos, they help a hell of a lot :). Just one question as I want to upgrade mi iMac mid 2011 . I don't really know if it is possible to have a 1tb ssd externally or does it have to be a 500gb one.Thank you ever so much!
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Luke and Noah bonding time 😅😅
Simply adding hard drive does not work. First, iMac BIOS maximizes its fan throttle when thermal sensor input (temperature) does not exist. Second, iMac 27 2011 model has three SATA connectors, so the SSD should be connected one of them - One for SATA hard drive, the other for DVD, and the third for extra (mostly connecting the third one for an additional SSD). The followings are missing: thermal sensor to attach sata connector and SSD surface, SATA cable which has power and data, and a frame to hold the SSD. when you don't find SSD frame which should be under the SSD, use highly sticky double-sided tape to put the SSD on iMac 27 frame very tightly. I hope you will revise the video because still iMac 27 2011 users are there (many many) and still a powerful and useful iMac 27. Also, when you upgrade CPU to i7 2700K, iMac 27 2011 will be much better in terms of computational power.
Hey my dad just gave me one for free to use for my 7 year old daughter to use for school. I really want to upgrade as much as possible since it’s so upgradable.
Graciano E Matos .....check this web site out ..enter serial number an it will tell you what you need to do ...... www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/aboutus.php... ope this helps
I don’t think he knew he took out and put the logic board back in without doing anything and he could just unscrew the hard drive and plug in the SSD
Card 6750 6770 (21.5 2011) can be used for a long time, 10-15 hours a day? 4-5 years I read that the 6970 card is on fire. Now I bought 21.5 (2011-6750) and I don’t know when it needs a replacement and whether it’s a good purchase. Thank you
Why is the Hard Disk still in there? 30 Bucks more for 256 GB SSD isn´t too much. Best Regards from Germany
Er hat doch schon eine 1TB SSD verbaut. Was meinst du mit 256? Außerdem ist meines Wissens nach in der HDD noch ein Temperaturfrühler verbaut den man nicht einfach so entfernen sollte. SSD + HDD hat ja jetzt gemeinsam 3 TB. Ich finde das ist schon ordentlich 😃
123tuffi ich meine ich hätte die Olle uralte Festplatte die drin war auch gegen eine ssd mit mindestens 256 GB ausgetauscht, z. B. für Mac OS, die 1000er soll ja zum zocken für bootcamp bereitstehen, der temperaturfühler war ja nur aufgelegt( wurde beim Bau durch Apple eh vergessen zu verkleben) also kann der prima auch auf eine ssd geklebt werden, diese wird eh nicht so heiss. Wenn die Kiste schon offen ist tausche ich doch soviel wie möglich gegen aktuelle Hardware aus
So I upgraded my 2017 iMac today from fusion to SSD, and now the microphone is VERY low. I understand it's located under the glass on the bottom bezel to the right of the Apple logo. Is it possible the problem is with the screen adhesive tap covering over the microphone holes in the chassis? Have you experienced this?
Have extra connector for sata in motherboard , y no need cancel dvd drive.✌🏻
I wish I had that last name
hi what year this the iMac 27
Mid 2011
Hi Luke, I purchased a mid 2011 iMac from eBay, cost me £750, I feel I got ripped off because I was not told that I could not upgrade to the latest running gear, it’s on high Serra, it’s got a 5 Tb hard drive, and 16 gigs of ram, what would I need to do with the iMac to be able to run the latest version of iOS.
Suggestion: Tape off the hole on the side of the case where the optical drive was for MUCH BETTER cooling now that the drive is removed! Otherwise some of the added airflow will not be quite as thorough. Just a suggestion... it's what I did!
- Update - I made the above suggestion before I saw the entire video. I noticed you suggested taping off the optical drive case slot at the end of the video... as I recommended!
Luke and Noah are Best Friends Forever.
Why ssd caddy? Id just double sided stick it as i do in all my pc’s
Luke, was wondering if you could do a review of mid 2012 macbook pro retina in 2018
Please please Review the new gigabytes aero 15 studio 8core i9 2080 rtx , i am witting for you professional review before I buy it, or Switch to MacBook Pro
Should I buy a MacBook Pro with a touch bar or without
Your boy is awesome lol.
btw why do you only have 36k.. that's messed up. you bring some good content, you're at least on snazzy quinns level.
Ok so basically CLONE the drive to a 1 TB SSD-then make it boot from that SSD and Velcro the drive to the back of the IMac…I THINK THAT WOULD BE MUCH MUCH EASIER!!!!!!!
Oh no you have one of the models where the logic board has to be removed to get to the GPU :(
Don't even joke about touching the back of the power supply. If you bridge the wrong contacts with your skin you can end up in the hospital or worse. If you have to remove it, always handle by the edges.
Hi Luke, Great tutorial. I'm running a 27 inch Mid 2011 iMac. Please excuse my ignorance, but if I replace my optical drive with an SSD drive can I transfer my operating system and everything that's now on my Hard drive to run off the new SSD drive ? Would that be the best option or should I just leave everything on my hard drive and do a new install (latest OS) onto the new SSD drive and then transfer across selected files as I need them ? Thanks for your help. Darren from the UK.
I'm going to get an SSD installed which is a clone of my old HDD in my 2011 27inch iMac.
I need the remix to home at the bogging on this video
hey luke i like all your videos but doesn't seem counterproductive to move the logic board to put an ssd in just to take it out to put a new gpu in i mean i know you said it has boot problems with a new gpu or something but it just seems like more to do
As I said in the video you have to set up your boot configuration before upgrading the graphics because you lose the efi boot screen, and some people reported issues with switching to Windows 10
Hello, is there a big enough difference between the mid 2012 15” non-retina 2.3ghz i7 vs the 2.6ghz MacBook Pro for photo and some video editing. I also do focus stacking with photoshop with their creative cloud service? Thanks in advance, love your videos!
I have the Mid 2012 15" Macbook Pro 2.3 ghz now with a 1TB SSD and 16gb RAM it runs a little hot but I am now able to use Photoshop and Animate 2020 on it. I don't think I would have tried before the upgrade,
Luke, since you’ll be reopening the iMac. Why nit change the HDD to another SSD too?
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Luke Miani 😢
What is the deal with all these extra ssd nerds??? Hes got a TB ssd already, keeping that 2TB HDD as a dedicated storage drive is perfectly fine. You only need the speed of an ssd on your system drive. It's like people think everything HAS to be ssd or the computer will be slow! Smh...
RAID 0 them!! It will DOUBLE the I/O rate of the Storage!
MegaTechpc I really thought so. Since if you have files on HDD it would be slower than having everything on SSD.
Probably have to find one of those temperature readers so the fans not blasting
Macs Fan Control
Nah we’ll just nab the sensor off the optical drive, it’s taped on
Looking forward to the gpu
Linus: But can you run Crysis?
I think you have to use SSD instead your main drive (hdd). Dont know how it work in Macs, but windows laptops usually use SATA 3 for internal storage and SATA 2 for optical drive.
Valeria Levenets this particular iMac spies SATA 3 at the optical drive interface. I did this to my MacBook pro mid 2012 and the ssd does 6gbps at the optical drive interface.
hello! i have late 2013 imac 21.5 inch, 8 gb ram, 1tb hd. Run really slow using fcpx, what you rekon? should i update ssd or ram?
SSD
Iamrazg ....try this site to establish what you can upgrade too ..... www.macupgrades.co.uk/store/serial.php?mod_num=MC813LL-A#specs
See you got a G27 in the background ;)
Please direct all “fat likes” here.
I bought onw of these a few months back and I absolutely love it. The only thing is that as far as I know these models won't get further support from November 2020 or 2021 and you can't, officially, upgrade them to Mojave. Would that be an issue in the long run?
If you use TurboTax it may be an issue.
ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/mojave-os-for-apple-computers-is-required-for-2020-thousands-of-2011-apple-computers-will-be-unable/00/954810
Use Mac Fans Control.
Ohh and one more thing the imacienstign!
😞 Sound sucks 😞
My wife is getting about half the speed on her 2009 iMac from the 850 EVO
Dennis W that’s because the negotiated speed in those machines’ SATA interface is 3gb/s. These ones have SATA 3/6gbps
14:18 this may be why Luke made an onlyfans…
What is the link to this I Mac
here is one because google is hard: www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-iMac-ME088LL-A-27-Desktop-Core-i5-4570-3-2Ghz-16GB-Ram-1TB-HD/202541908034?epid=172610993&hash=item2f28704042:g:qNQAAOSwa55cGXpJ:rk:5:pf:0
I found a used MXM RX480 card online, will that one be installed into this machine?
Li Lester the GTX 980 is more powerful than the RX 480 despite being older. RX 480 is more comparable to a GTX 970.
iMac from 2011 is known for bad gpu
What iMac is $400 is it a fake ?
Its second hand and he must have got a lucky hand.
Bogdan Lazar but why doesn’t he ever put the link. Like that’s a good steal
Brownskin Mani what link? He bought it at an auction on eBay. It’s not like there’s a guy with a sitting warehouse full of these at that price point.
@@ItsJustTuesday You can find equivalent deals on 2011-2012 iMacs, you just gotta do a little searching and be patient...
yes its a #screamer
Audio!!!!!
I cant hear anything, horrid
I will just leave this comment here
Chinese SSD
Yeah, a bit scary. Those can die soooo quick. Even with a TM backup it can still be a headache.
$400? 🤨 You can get a Crucial MX 500 1TB for $99 on amazon.
20 minutes to take out your imacs mother board? Ha i can do mine in five! (My imac is exactly the same as yours and I've disassembled it like twenty times soo yeah)
Weird flex but ok
Guys, please mic yourselves. Un/listenable/watchable.
Hmmm, I managed to be able to watch and listen to the video just fine. These millennials have no idea what CZcams used to be like 10 years ago!