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    upgrading new iMac is it possible?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by tyronne, Sep 28, 2008.

  1. tyronne

    tyronne Notebook Evangelist

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    is it possible to upgrade our new iMac we just bought a few weeks ago? not happy with performance under vista trying to play games such as secondlife.

    the graphic is horrible we had to turn most good options down or off because the video card couldnt handle the game.

    We got the Ati card in our iMac and its freaking horrible ihate hate hate hate ATi cards.
     
    tyronne, Sep 28, 2008
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    may be some driver issue...ati 2600 should be more then enough for secondlife
     
    Xirurg, Sep 28, 2008
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  3. MYK

    MYK Newbie NBR Reviewer

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    Are you running Vista with Parallels or Boot Camp?

    You can upgrade the rams easily but I doubt you need more than 2GB. Like Xirurg said, it's probably a driver issue. Or that you're running Vista as a virtual machine which won't fully benefit from the video card.
     
    MYK, Sep 28, 2008
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  4. John B

    John B Notebook Prophet

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    John B, Sep 28, 2008
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