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get a smaller one for your OS + common apps and a used nvidia gpu from a newer mac. an ssd is a completely different paradigm. it's night and day, even on an
by beachstartup 10y ago
get a smaller one for your OS + common apps and a used nvidia gpu from a newer mac.
an ssd is a completely different paradigm. it's night and day, even on an old sata bus.
this shoudn't even be a question. hdd computers are completely unuseable to me now. i sat down at one the other day and i thought it had crashed and almost rebooted it, but it was just chugging the disk.
- m_eiman 10y agoHard to switch GPUs in an iMac, isn't it? I have considered switching out both the HDD and the DVD drive to get space to build a Fusion drive, but I kinda want to keep the DVD drive; it's the only one we have in the house. Hm. Maybe I should build a Fusion drive and add an external optical drive...
- beachstartup 10y agonot really. it's just a pci card. just make sure you get one with a mac compatible firmware.
- m_eiman 10y agoIt's just a PCI card, buried beneath 51 disassembly steps: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+GPU+Card+Replacement/6272 https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+G... A bit more complicated than I'd like :)
- beachstartup 10y agoi was referring to mac pros. i don't use imacs because of this reason.