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marikian

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Refurbished 27-inch iMac 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 with Retina display
Originally released October 2014
27-inch (diagonal) Retina display with IPS technology; 5120‑by‑2880 resolution
16GB memory
512GB Flash Storage
AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory
Built-in FaceTime HD camera

What do you guys think of this setup? I was gonna get a 3tb but the pure flash drive sounds great. Also what external drive would you get with this set up?
 

yjchua95

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Apr 23, 2011
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GVA, KUL, MEL (current), ZQN
Refurbished 27-inch iMac 4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 with Retina display
Originally released October 2014
27-inch (diagonal) Retina display with IPS technology; 5120‑by‑2880 resolution
16GB memory
512GB Flash Storage
AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory
Built-in FaceTime HD camera

What do you guys think of this setup? I was gonna get a 3tb but the pure flash drive sounds great. Also what external drive would you get with this set up?
The lack of the M295X makes the setup somewhat hamstrung.
 

fathergll

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Sep 3, 2014
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It would lag.

5120x2880 is a lot of pixels and the M290X isn't really up to the job.



I haven't seen much of this on my M290X. To be fair i've heard lag issues on every model(it's been well documented) which makes this seem that it's software related and not hardware.

Also the M295X does run incredibly hot and it's been well documented from guys who do Apple repairs that they've seen heat as the #1 issue with them down the road.
 

RageDaddy

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Jan 7, 2015
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290X lag, pure BS. I got it and it's purely safari bug. If you use safari with multiple tabs open it will lag.

I use Firefox and no lag...non!
 

CWallace

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Aug 17, 2007
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What do you guys think of this setup? I was gonna get a 3tb but the pure flash drive sounds great. Also what external drive would you get with this set up?

I'd probably buy it as other than the 295X, it has everything my current 5K iMac has (and I would have preferred to wait for a refurb).

For external drive I use a Drobo 5D for media and a Western Digital 3TB for Time Machine.
 
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