Radeon 6790m from PC-NB to iMac?

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  1. Mackata, Apr 30, 2018

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    Hey,
    can anybody tell me if its possible to take a 6790 videocard from Win-Notebook and place i in a 2011 iMac 27"??
    Will the effect be that I have no bootscreen only or what will happen?
    Does anybody know a way or description?
    Excuse my simple english
     
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  2. biffuz, Apr 30, 2018

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    You can't take the videocard out of a notebook, for the simple reason that notebooks don't have a videocard. Everything is just soldered.
    There are some rare notebooks with a videocard, but the iMac has no connector for it.
     
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  3. Mackata, Apr 30, 2018

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    I have it in front of me... No doubt and it has the same connector as the old Mac vidcard.
     
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  4. biffuz, Apr 30, 2018

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    Damn, I've been into Macs for 15 years, repairing, refurbishing and upgrading them and I never noticed that some iMacs had MXM slots.
    Anyway, it looks like the card needs to have an Apple firmware or it won't work at all. Guess you can try, it shouldn't hurt.
     
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  5. Mackata, Apr 30, 2018

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    I normally upgrade Mac Pros here in Germany and iMac is not my business. If you got interesting things for the MP please contact me again
    Best Regards,
    Franz
     
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  6. boy80, May 3, 2018

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    If its from a dell it will work. Just grab the correct firmware from techpowerup and flash. Get the correct 1g or 2g video ram to match yours and flash. I used a dell alienware laptop to flash mine. But u can pi or a ecternal programmer. Once flashed it will wirk like a Apple video card should
     
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