if u can seriously afford 2 x4gb RAM modules you go out there and put them in.
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if u can seriously afford 2 x4gb RAM modules you go out there and put them in.
for the uses you specify, the 2600 is more than enough.
no one to date has successfully upgraded an iMac video card, even though it is an MXM card.
the current iMac maxes out at 4GB RAM. i don't know if anyone has tried putting a singe 4GB chip in to test the SR spec as they are currently prohibitively expensive.
key word: successfully
check the kodawarisan disassembly photos. the gpu is MXM, as in the previous iMac, but no one has gotten any other card to work to my knowledge. (and i'm pretty sure we'd have heard about it if they did.)
sooo the implementing of other MXM cards would have only been under OSX, right?? are u aware of them attempting to run them via bootcamp XP/Vista? because then in theory the drivers could be installed and the computer could run under windoze, under OSX there is no possible way (unless you can write your own drivers haha)
The 2600 can do 2D work such as Photoshop in its sleep, as can any card from the last xx years.
3D tasks, and were probably talking games mostly, are what need the horsepower.
The Radeon HD2600 is not 'poor' or 'outdated'. Obviously it's not a GeForce 8800, but it's an adequate card which can run modern games like Call of Duty 4 well and beefy games like Crysis reasonably.
Unless the iMacs have monster chips in them, people will always be complaining.
I'm hapy with mine, but I'm not kidding myself that it'll be able to hack it games-wise in 2 years time.
Simple, stick it on ebay and get the next iMac.
well it just gives people the option of running things (like certain games and 3D software etc) that cant be run on OSX. sure they mighnt like using windoze but what must me done, must be done
It's not so simple as just putting in a new card and loading some drivers. You'd need a compatible mxm card (I think they vary a bit, and apple's spec may not be standard). Then you need a mac compatible bios on the card - this would have to be hacked I guess. The drivers would be the smallest problem.
I'd like to know though if the new imac's 2600 card works in an older white imac. If that's the case, then there's surely the possibility of using a card from a future imac in the current one - IF you can find one. iMacs do break down sometimes though, so perhaps there will be some available on ebay at some time.
I'd like to know though if the new imac's 2600 card works in an older white imac. If that's the case, then there's surely the possibility of using a card from a future imac in the current one - IF you can find one. iMacs do break down sometimes though, so perhaps there will be some available on ebay at some time.
So, basically, the iMac card is not upgradeable, and its an MXM card ONLY because so that if your GPU breaks and you need to bring it into the store, they can easily swap it out for a new one without basically rebuilding the system.
I haven't seen anything that outright states that, but then again no one has tried (and wrote about it ) either. If you'd like you could take one for the team and find out for us.
I just dont understand it. there are laptops out there with 8700 SLI! Thats two 512 DDR3 cards!
shouldnt that be possible for the imac? it would also make it futureproof, even though some say that SLI is a waste of time.
Has anyone tried crossfire? No one talks about it, it seems.
shouldnt that be possible for the imac? it would also make it futureproof, even though some say that SLI is a waste of time.
Has anyone tried crossfire? No one talks about it, it seems.
I just dont understand it. there are laptops out there with 8700 SLI! Thats two 512 DDR3 cards!
shouldnt that be possible for the imac? it would also make it futureproof, even though some say that SLI is a waste of time.
Has anyone tried crossfire? No one talks about it, it seems.
A single 8800GT would probably be better in most situations than SLI 8700. Anyway SLI isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I just dont understand it. there are laptops out there with 8700 SLI! Thats two 512 DDR3 cards!
shouldnt that be possible for the imac? it would also make it futureproof, even though some say that SLI is a waste of time.
Has anyone tried crossfire? No one talks about it, it seems.
It would be useless since OS X doesn't recognize SLI or Crossfire. I highly doubt Apple would waste time working on support for it either.
When they replace it tho, they often upgrade it as they don't have the old parts to hand. I have a friend who refers to his Imac G5 as a rev A.b/c because his graphics card and motherboard were both replaced within a few months of one another in separate trips to the apple store, with parts from the Rev. B/C models that were out at that time.
So Apple can do it, even if no one's ever written of attempting it successfully on the web. If the new model has the same architecture and runs on the same OS, there have to be drivers out there for its parts somewhere.
If you're thinking of being able to switch it now then fair enough. If you're thinking of upgrading in 3 or 4 years time then it's a false economy.
I have a question: I was looking at ATI's driver page, and I could only see a driver for windows xp for radeon 2600. there was no driver for vista in boot camp.
does that mean that you cant use the 2600 pro/XT, in vista in boot camp?
does that mean that you cant use the 2600 pro/XT, in vista in boot camp?
