IMac :: ATI Radeon Hard Drive 4850 GPU?

Oct 25, 2009

Loving the new iMac revisions and have placed my order for the Core i7 configuration with 8 Gigs of RAM, the only thing that slightly concerns me is Apple putting the ATI 4850 GPU in this machine as this card has been around for well over a year. Having a young family my iMac really has to last me (current Mac is my old but faithful 800Mhz G4 Angle Poise 17" screen iMac) so don't want to get caught out with an "old" GPU that within a 2-3 years won't be able to cope with current day demands placed on it. My usage is photo manipulation, a bit of FCP and I want to be able to play some 3D games etc. but I'm by no means some games enthusiast who requires the highest frame rate, highest settings. Figure I have two option:

A. Bite the bullet now - this iMac has almost everything I want - been waiting for Quad Core desktop chip and LED screen but icing on the cake would have been better GPU and Blu-ray option.

B. Wait yet another update (figure March / April 2010) in the hope that Apple put in a more current GPU and possibly Blu-ray option. HOWEVER I figure that this is probably a fools game as who knows regarding Blu-ray and obviously a more current GPU will be fitted but probably won't be the most extreme one as Apple tend not to figure that this is a priority on the iMac.

My inclination is that this update will probably be absolutely fantastic and my GPU worries are probably unfounded as I'll never want to push it to gaming extremes but interested what others may think.

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IMac :: It's The Radeon HD 4850 Better Than The HD 5670

Jul 27, 2010

Who are well aware of the difference but video cards is something that i am not familiar with. I'm deciding between i5 refurb or the new i3 i am more interested in graphics power than cpu btw

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IMac :: GeForce GT 130 Versus Radeon HD 4850?

Mar 3, 2009

I'm going to be ordering my new iMac within the next couple days but need a little advice first.

Obviously, the 4850 is more powerful, but if these two cards had the exact same specs, would ATI or nVidia be the better choice?

Which company is Apple leaning towards, which company produces better Mac drivers, how will OpenCL play into this, etc.

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IMac :: Won't Work With Radeon 4850 After EFI Firmware 1.4

May 30, 2009

I got my wife the new iMac with a Radeon 4850 to replace her ancient PC (and I meant ANCIENT) and she had massive issues with lockups due to overheating, especially when playing fullscreen 3D games like World of Warcraft in Mac OSX or any of her Windows XP games in bootcamp.

After the EFI Firmware Update 1.4 she's had far less issues, but she's still had 1 lockup (playing Diablo 2 stangly enough, a very old low detail game) and graphical glitches in WoW which caused her to stop playing out of fear of a lockup before it could happen.

Her computer temps are still extremely high but our house temp is only 72degrees.

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IMac :: Unable To Work With Radeon 4850 / Freeze

Apr 28, 2009

do you think the issue with the radeon is the hardware or do you think a simple update in the future will fix it?

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IMac :: Radeon 4850 Based IMac Froze More Than Once?

Apr 16, 2009

Has it frozen more than once since the time you've received it. Hopefully we can get some idea of what's going on. specify what CPU your system is running (2.93 or 3.06 ghz), along with info when you ordered the system, and when it was shipped.

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IMac :: ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB" Graphic Card Good To Run FCP

Jul 10, 2009

Will i have any problems running Final Cut Pro with these cinfigurations on my iMac 2009?3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 8GB Memory 1.0TB Serial ATA Drive ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB Is this "ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB" graphic card good to run FCP?

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Aug 10, 2008

I have bought a Radeon 4850 graphics card to play some games in Windows under boot camp. The card comes with a mini 6 pin power connector that connects to the graphics card and supplied lead has at the other end a 4 pin power connector to go into the computer's power supply by the looks of the diagram in the box. My question is do I need to connect this to the Mac Pro power supply? The ATI 2600 card in the machine doesn't look like it connects to another power supply.

If I do need to use this then I can only see two small power connectors on the motherboard near the fan, does anyone know anywhere in the UK that would sell a compatible power lead?

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PowerPC :: Can I Install ATI Radeon 4850 In To My System

May 4, 2010

I would like to ask you people is there any chance that I can install Radeon HD 4850 512 MB into power mac g5 late 2005 ? actually this one :

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Mac Pro :: Installing HIS Radeon Hard Drive 4870 512MB DDR5 In 2006 Model?

Jul 29, 2009

I bought HIS Radeon HD4870 512MB DDR5 for my Mac Pro 2006 1.1. The first problem I've found it that card will not fit to slot 1, because of too long screws. So I installed it in slot 2, leaving 7300GT in slot 1. The next problem was how to get rid of these power cables - I've tried the more elegant way taking that molex adapter under HDD trays, but cables where too short So I installed them on the right of Superdrive's tray. Now on Mac OS X I got kernel panic (probably the injector thing). On Windows Vista card is detected, but automatically disabled (probably not enough power or just PCI-EX 1x slot is not compatible). Here are photos from the operation. I'll try to install Accelero S1 rev. 2 with Noctua 120 mm fan and will see how things go I've also ordered two special Apple PCI-EX power connectors from Austria.

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IMac :: NVIDA Or ATI 4850?

Apr 17, 2009

so I have decided to get a new iMac 24inch 3.06. The question at hand is do I need to upgrade to the ATI Radeon HD 4850?

I dont play video games. I do edit large raw photo files with CS4 and I do use Final Cut Express for my video editing. What do you think. Thanks again in advance for your input.

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IMac :: Unable To Fix 10.5.7 For 4850's?

Apr 24, 2009

If 10.5.7 does not fix the belief that wifi is causing freezes (or whatever it might be), we will be further down Apple's care list.

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IMac :: 4850 Pc Review And Specs

Mar 10, 2009

I thought I would post this as the pc used in this review is very close to the top of the line imac. I included the pc specs below used in the review. Assuming the card in the imac is not the mobile version and the one listed in this review, those who wait are in for an amazing machine.

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Mainboard

nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI (eVGA) (1)
Intel X48 (ASUS) (2)

Processor

Core 2 Duo X6800 Extreme (2.9 ghz)

Graphics Cards
ati 4850 and 4870

Memory

2048 MB (2x1024MB) DDR2 CAS4 @ 1142 MHz Dominator Corsair

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IMac :: ATI 4850 - Desktop Or Laptop?

Mar 17, 2009

I wrote it in another thread, but maybe I went OT, so...Does anyone know for sure if the ATI 4850 is the desktop version or the laptop version? I'm going to order the iMac24 but I want to be sure that the ATI card worth the money.

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IMac :: ATI 4850 - Old Leopard Installation

Apr 15, 2009

this is my first posting but I am desperate and need some help Apple could not provide. Here is my situation:

- new iMac 9,1 2,93 GHz, 4 GByte, ATI Radeon 4850
- pre-installed OS: Leopard 10.5.6

I have access to a MBP and an older iMac. The MBP had a defective logic board some months ago so I decided to copy its content (after repair) to an external hard drive. I used this hard drive as my primary OS and used it with the MBP or iMac and did have the same data all the time - excellent time-saver for me. Now the new iMac was shipped yesterday. I tried to boot it from the very same external hard drive as well. It worked but there are some annoying facts I need some help to deal with: I cannot activate sleep mode with the new iMac. The graphics card seems not to work well: stuttering screen saver, slow high definition video playback, slow spaces etc. I cannot dim the monitor's backlight with F1/F2 keys nor the monitor setup. All these problems disappear when I boot from the internal HDD but that is not an option for me. It looks like the "old" Leopard installations lacks of some drivers. Is there a way to add them, is there another solution or will an update of Leopard 10.5.7 - at least most likely - solve the problem? Apple support did not feel the need to help for "exotic configurations". I was told a fresh installation of a retail Leopard copy on an external hard drive COULD work (no guarantee) but it would take me too much time to re-configure and I don't feel the desire to set up my system fresh and new like in old Windows days.

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IMac :: How Hot Do The 4850 Machines Run Compared To The 130 Or 120?

Apr 27, 2009

Has anyone done some sort of a comparison?

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IMac :: Nvidia 130 Versus ATI 4850

Jul 13, 2009

Is there much difference from a stock iMac with Nvidia GT 130 vs ATI HD 4850 for gaming? It would be nice to be able just to buy a stock machines rather than a custom with the ATI for $50.

My real concern is overall gaming proformance and heat produced by the two cards. Current iMac has the ATI 2600 HD Pro, which I think is pretty slow compared.

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IMac :: 5750 Slower Than 4850?

Jul 27, 2010

correct me if I'm wrong but the 4850 has 800 pipelines and a 256 mb bus width as apposed to the 400 pipelines and 128 mb bus width in the 5750?

step backwards in terms of graphics?

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Jul 29, 2010

I have an 2009 27inch imac with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 and was wondering if it is somehow possible to take the 5750 from a 2010 model and replace the 4850 with it?

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IMac :: Reinstalling OS X - Linked To 4850 Card

Apr 17, 2009

Those of you with the ATi 4850 card, is there any who have completed a reinstall and then still suffered with the freezing problem afterwards.

If so I am going to get back on to Applecare and demand a replacement.

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IMac :: 4850 EFI Firmware Update To Fix Freeze Ups

May 2, 2009

It's avihappy again and I have another survey for you all. As you can see, there is now an iMac 4850 EFI firmware update available via software update. So can you: Find a test that will cause the iMac to freeze up. Do the update. (make sure you actually run the firmware updater tool, it may not run automatically when you install the update from Software Update.) Switch to WiFi. Do the test again. See if the iMac freezes!

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IMac :: Finding A Quad Core Or The 4850?

Nov 17, 2009

I know 300 dollars for a bump from C2D/4670 to a i5/4850 is easily one of the best upgrades Apple has offered in a long, long time.... but would I really need it?

I was primarily going to be using the iMac for everyday stuff (word/browsing/etc) and for games occasionally by others. I don't need everything running on ultra with AA on or anything, just visually comparable to PS3/X360. I will be doing a lot of Photoshop/illustrator things as well and might get into video editing.

I was thinking maybe I could hold out on going quad core for a couple years until Macbook Pro lines get it at a reasonable price then I can just use the iMac as a gorgeous led and media hub in the background as I do my work on the Macbook Pro.

I've seen the benchmarks, but how does it work out in real world situations?

What would having Quad cores do for me except help me handle files/render a few seconds faster here and there? I'm sure it's a tremendous boost in things like encoding but how would it help when it comes to image editing?

Is the 4850 a huge bump in specs compared to the 4670? Is the performance gap similar to going from 9400 to the 9600?

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IMac :: Common Denominator With Lockups For 4850 ATI Version?

Apr 18, 2009

I don't mean to start a new Thread but I think this one could really pinpoint the problem if we could get some good feedback on this. What is the Common Denominator (besides having the HD4850 option) that could be causing the lockups that some people are having.

Examples Is everyone who is experiencing lockups :
1.) Installed Boot Camp and using Windows with this HD4850 option?
2.) Do you use Safari exclusively and not FireFox?
3.) Does it happen only when Surfing ?
4.) Does it happen only when playing a certain game like WOW?
5.) Does it happen only after you been using the iMac for a few hours?
so on. . .

See my point? Write down or make yourself notes to as what you were doing exactly when it locked up? Reply to this Thread and lets figure this out. It will be must easier if everyone could put their situation in this Thread and maybe we can get to the bottom of this.

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IMac :: 27 Inch Quad Core I7 HD 4850 Temperature?

Nov 18, 2009

I just wanted to share what's been going on with my i7 which I received last Friday. Immediately I was curious about what sort of temps I was going to be running so I installed Temperature Monitor. At idle my graphics readings hover around 40C. However, when playing Warcraft 3 my Graphics Processor Temperature Diode reaches up to 84C.

I don't really know what temps are acceptable, I was just wondering what other i7 HD4850s out there are running. To deal with this seemingly high temperature I installed smcFanControl and boosted all fan speeds by 50%. Noise doesn't seem to be proportional to fan speed at these levels so no probs there. Now I run at 64C at load and I am at peace with that.

Shouldn't the OS be increasing fan speed on its own?

Would like to know what you guys think and observe in your i7 machines

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IMac PPC :: Make Hard Drive Into An External Hard Drive

Mar 1, 2012

I've had a lot of problems with my iMac G5 power supply and since I have newer computers I've decided to get rid of this computer. 

I want to save the hard drive and put it in a case, then use it as an external drive on my other Macs. 

What sort of case do I need to shop for? Should I look for SATA or what exactly is the proper nomenclature. 

Is USB 2 the preferred choice, or Firewire, or what? Is there a USB 3? I use a mid-2010 27 inch iMac with the intel processor, and I needed to buy an adapter to use my older Firewire external drive. Is Firewire a dodo? 

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Windows On Mac :: Info Needed Regarding 27" IMac ATI 4850 In Windows7?

Feb 7, 2010

Can someone with a 27 inch iMac with the ATI Radeon 4850 video card running Windows 7 via bootcamp please look under device manager and let me know the driver version and date.

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IMac :: ATI 4850 Windows Drivers - Finding Current Status?

Jun 20, 2010

I gather there've been more than a few headaches getting working video drivers for the ATI 4850 in the iMac (windows side). A few posts have said that version 8.661 of the AMD driver (Catalyst 9.10) works, but other versions including newer ones, don't.

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IMac :: IMac 24'' - Replace Optical Drive With 2nd Hard Drive For Raid 0?

Feb 18, 2010

I was wondering if anyone had successfully installed and 2nd hard drive in their iMac?I have a 2 year old 2.8 24'' iMac and the performance just isn't cutting the mustard, it's all hard drive related and I already have a decent 1TB drive in there.I was thinking of perhaps swapping the optical drive with a second hard drive for RAID0, but not too sure if there will be space and was wondering if the optical drive is a standard SATA connector, or if there is some way I could run a SATA+power cables externally?

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IMac :: Swapping Hard Drives - Transfer Entire Contents Of Old Hard Drive On To New

Jan 25, 2009

I have a Imac 20 with a small 3.5 hard drive and I have bought a bigger 360 gig 3.5 hard drive to replace the old one. I have the new one in an external case with USB 2.0 right now. Is there some way I can transfer the entire contents of the old hard drive on to the new one and then swap out the old drive with the new drive and not miss a beat?

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IMac :: 24 Inch IMac Graphics Card To Ati Radeon

Sep 16, 2009

I recently read somewhere that I can actually change the graphics card on my mac. If so where can I buy the ATI Radeon 4850 graphics card? and how much will that set me back?And could I get this upgrade done by my local nextbyte retail store?If it is possible to have nextbyte upgrade my card would they send it off to apple?
I really just need this card so I can play aoe3 on all settings high and be able to handle games like cod4, quake and all those graphic hungry games.

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