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- #Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly drivers#
- #Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly full#
- #Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly pro#
You can’t see it easily but I decided to secure the riser to the GPU with a bit of wire and a cable tie because every time I removed the card the riser was left in the Highpoint, which then had to be removed to take out the Highpoint. So I cut the hole in the case to make some room and (maybe) help with airflow to keep the card cool as it has no direct fans.Ĭard in. They just stuck out a little too much for me to leave alone. Now I know the gap - some precision engineering.Īnd fitted to the Highpoint first, then screw to the case.Ĭard in. So found some card risers (think that’s what they are called) and screwed them into two holes I drilled into the case. If I was not going to be moving the case around I would have let it float but as it might take some knocks I wanted to screw it to the case. With Highpoint card in place there is a roughly 12mm gap between the card and case. Soldered and heat shinked a couple of female pins I had lying around. Splashed a bit of matte black paint on to stop the rust. Sounds simple enough but took a while to get the 105mm x 105mm hole pattern all lined up for the fan. It was just 2 bits of aluminium bent at 90 degrees and pop riveted to the case. Do not do this! You will see why at the end.Ĭase cut, and bracket for the cooling fitted. Note the markings for the Thunderbolt cut out. Okay now that pop rivet is gone - final test fit prior to case cut part 2.
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Waste of time - they go everywhere! Blew it all out with an air compressor. You can see I wrapped the whole thing in plastic to try and contain the spread of metal filings. They were never going to be needed!Ĭase cutting. Also, I removed the USB, audio and switch loom from the bottom centre of case. Pop rivet near the Made in China prevented me from test fitting it fully. Note pen marks for cut out.Īnd the flip side with riser poking through. PCIe riser from Silverstone case and BONUS thunderbolt end plate from Highpoint. Stripped down Highpoint with modular molex connected. He pops up occasionally to give you a size reference. Tried to work out the best place to feed hoses through the space that is usually occupied by the motherboard. Ran Resolve and it recognised the card and rendered at approx 3 times the speed of the non eGPU render. Rebooted the laptop and there was the 980 ti in the OS X systems report. php ?/ forums / topic / 7989 - script - automating - the - installation - of - egpu - on - os - x - inc - display - output /.
#Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly drivers#
Downloaded the latest CUDA drivers for the laptop and ran goalque’s installation script https :// com / index. I had to make some educated guesses about dimensions and only just got it right. Not carrying to work on the bus any time soon.įirst up are some images of the Highpoint card with visual measurements.
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Silverstone Milo ML08-H - looks like its about the smallest case to fit a 10.5” card, ridiculously oversized cooling system, PCIe card and power supply. Silverstone SFX-L 80+ Gold 500W Modular Power Supply - got it because I new it would fit and the modular cables keep the case neat.
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And the finished results with the parts supplied looks very neat. Highpoint RocketStor 6361A - have had some success with Highpoint in the past and liked the neat power hook up via molex connection.
#Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly pro#
The eGPU is to run on either a MacBook Pro Retina, 15in Mid 2015, AMD Radeon R9 M370X, and a iMac 27in Late 2013, Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M.ĮVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid - Wanted a quite card and the Hybrid is spec’ed a little higher than a standard GTX Ti.
#Imac 27 late 2013 disassembly full#
My eGPU requirements are solely for daVinci Resolve on OS X to boost render times and size of files that can be rendered without the dreaded GPU Is Full message.