Imac Mid 2011 GPU Fix

[Kylepineds03]

Hi,

I have Imac 27" Mid 2011. The GPU is dead. Is there any way to fix it or any other options like adapters to use external GPU? i have seen this photo but can't find any thread that this will work.

Hope you guys can help me. Thanks in advance.

 

[alberto.garciasa]

I advised reballing graphics card. It's a good solution.
Another option install graphics card compatible and Flash software.
I don't know if external gpu can be installed

 

[Kylepineds03]

Thank @alberto.garciasa. will note your advice.

 

[joevt]

There is a thread for upgrading the GPU
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

There was a kickstarter for a eGPU for MXM slot but I don't think anything was ever sold.

 

[Kylepineds03]

There is a thread for upgrading the GPU
2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

There was a kickstarter for a eGPU for MXM slot but I don't think anything was ever sold.

I've seen this thread also but it seems this project is a dead end.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sp...yWpGm&id=599010631937&ns=1&abbucket=17#detail Thinking to get this one. just wondering maybe someone had tried to make this work in their previous projects.

 

[joevt]

I've seen this thread also but it seems this project is a dead end.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?sp...yWpGm&id=599010631937&ns=1&abbucket=17#detail Thinking to get this one. just wondering maybe someone had tried to make this work in their previous projects.

I don't think I've seen that one before. If you get it to work, then let the folks at egpu.io know about it.

 

[OCD-FREAK]

hey guys,

i have an imac 2009 and an imac 2010 both need graphics card replaced.

can you please list all the supported graphics cards? i need the cheapest ones, the imac is just gonna be used for office stuff, so even 256mb of vram is great.

thank you all

 

[Nguyen Duc Hieu]

hey guys,

i have an imac 2009 and an imac 2010 both need graphics card replaced.

can you please list all the supported graphics cards? i need the cheapest ones, the imac is just gonna be used for office stuff, so even 256mb of vram is great.

thank you all

2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

iMac 2009 to 2011 MXM3 graphics card upgrade (Lastest update 10/13/2023 - this is the official documentation page - you found it finally!) This is the single and only documentation post. During the last years we constantly updated this post to reflect the lastet development of vBIOS and OCLP...

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[roolaing]

Hi all,

First-time poster.

I have this machine and installed a pre-flashed k1000m (2gb) which works great.
You can find numerous videos on YouTube to help step-by-step. I'm no pro, but followed 'Tech it Out' to the letter and replaced SSD (kinda hard), GPU&CPU (very hard) and RAM (easy!).

All this means I have Big Sur running great on a ten-year-old machine.

It's worth doing!

All the best!

 

[Silencio]

Hi all,

First-time poster.

I have this machine and installed a pre-flashed k1000m (2gb) which works great.
You can find numerous videos on YouTube to help step-by-step. I'm no pro, but followed 'Tech it Out' to the letter and replaced SSD (kinda hard), GPU&CPU (very hard) and RAM (easy!).

All this means I have Big Sur running great on a ten-year-old machine.

It's worth doing!

All the best!

The 2011 27" iMacs are still pretty good machines aside from the slow, unreliable GPUs.

Where did you get the pre-flashed k1000m? What processor did you have before, and what did you replace it with?

 

[roolaing]

The 2011 27" iMacs are still pretty good machines aside from the slow, unreliable GPUs.

Where did you get the pre-flashed k1000m? What processor did you have before, and what did you replace it with?

I have the 21.5”

I bought it from eBay. Really top job and came as described, I can pass on the shop if you like.

I have an i7 2600s (65w) which runs great 👍