Any one please share your upgrade experience?
Any one please share your upgrade experience?
How much performance benefit we will get?
I am a game programmer and working with Unity game engine and xCode in combination daily.
what kind of boost I will get after upgrade? I read all messages exist over this thread.
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To start off which system you have will make a big difference on what is possible!
As an example: If you have iMac i5 2.7GHz system the CPU is soldered to the logic board and would require a full logic board swap out!
If you have iMac i5 2.9GHz system then you can replace the CPU chip alone! But you are limited to what Apple offered iMac i7 3.1GHz system.
Now while the iMac i5 2.9GHz system only needs a chip is the performance improvement worth it? Is the risk of damaging the system to high? Just opening the system is tricky! Many people damage the display in the process as its not easy!
Frankly, if you need performance for serious game programing this is not the best system. I would go with a 4.2 GHz Core i7 (I7-7700K), 3.6 GHz Core i9 (I9-9900K) or 3.2 GHz Apple M1/M2 system if your applications support Apples processor.
Maybe you should look as a laptop system using an external display for now like a 13" MacBook Pro 3.2 GHz Apple M1/3.49 GHz Apple M2
or wait a bit as its likely the 24" system will get the expected M2 upgrade or a more Pro/Max version iMac or Mac Mini/Mac Studio system
par Dan
@danj Thank you for your reply :)
I have this model of iMac Late 2012: 2.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
I have already opened my iMac 2 times, and checked what processor exist, its i5-3330S, as like normal PC processor.
So that I considered it for the upgrade and round $120 to $150, I will found processor from the market.
As per support, it will support i7 3770s processor.
I have already upgraded with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM within my iMac and I don't have performance related issue.
To make it work more better, Is it worth to spend more for processor?
par Siddharth
I converted your question into its own as you had dropped it in someone else's question which is a different system, so all of the examples I posted above don't apply!
par Dan