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Gaming on a 21.5 inch Mid-2010 iMac in 2014

nosirrah123

I've been on steam for 3 years, and I discovered my love for PC's a little over a year ago. Unfortunately, I live in a family of mac-lovers. My family members are woe-fully under-educated about computers (despite my efforts) and insist on using terribly slow computers until they run them into the ground. We bought this piece of crud 4 years ago for 800$, and while it comes with a 1080p screen, it has trouble running games like Garry's Mod and Half-Life 2 (WHICH CAME OUT IN 2004 BTW) at 720p on decent settings. Since I cannot run benchmarks for fear of frying this horrible machine, here are some screenshots of the way I need to play just to run AAA modern games. *cue violin music*

 

 

PS I decided to put this in review because I'm reviewing the iMac

- "some salty pretzel bun fanboy" ~ @helping, 2014
- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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Still way better than my rig can do.

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Amazing tech review, and using peer reviewed sources as well! The objective criticism is a new and (before) unseen way of interpreting current tech related news.

Oh wait

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Yeah, I'm on a 2009 iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHZ, 8gb Ram, 1TB HD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 512 MB.  It struggled at times with Half-Life 2.  :(

Case: NZXT H500i. Motherboard: Asus Prime Z390-A. CPU: i7 9700k OC @ 5.0GHz. GPU: EVGA 2080 FTW3 CPU Cooler: NZXT X62. Memory: G. Skill Ripjaws 32Gb 3200mhz. Storage: 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD /  120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD  /  WD Caviar Black 3TB / WD Caviar Green 4TB. . PSU: Corsair AX760. Monitor: 2x Acer XB270HU. Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB. Mouse: Corsair Glaive. 

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Yeah, I'm on a 2009 iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHZ, 8gb Ram, 1TB HD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 512 MB.  It struggled at times with Half-Life 2.   :(

your rig with a non-existent processor begs to differ

- "some salty pretzel bun fanboy" ~ @helping, 2014
- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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your rig with a non-existent processor begs to differ

 

You must have missed the, Coming Soon part.  You know what that means right?

Case: NZXT H500i. Motherboard: Asus Prime Z390-A. CPU: i7 9700k OC @ 5.0GHz. GPU: EVGA 2080 FTW3 CPU Cooler: NZXT X62. Memory: G. Skill Ripjaws 32Gb 3200mhz. Storage: 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD /  120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD  /  WD Caviar Black 3TB / WD Caviar Green 4TB. . PSU: Corsair AX760. Monitor: 2x Acer XB270HU. Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB. Mouse: Corsair Glaive. 

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You must have missed the, Coming Soon part.  You know what that means right?

Pssh, reading? Isn't that what nerds do?

- "some salty pretzel bun fanboy" ~ @helping, 2014
- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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this thread smells like something a bull might do in a field after a rather long day of eating

 

If i remember rightly the mid 2010 imac was a 2.8ghz i5 and a 1GB 5750

 

What is the actual spec of the mac you have? @nosirrah123

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Member reviews go in the clearly labeled 'Member Reviews' subforum.

http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/25-member-reviews/

What you posted isn't even a review. This belongs in either Offtopic or PC Gaming.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'll take that into consideration in the future :P

- "some salty pretzel bun fanboy" ~ @helping, 2014
- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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this thread smells like something a bull might do in a field after a rather long day of eating

 

If i remember rightly the mid 2010 imac was a 2.8ghz i5 and a 1GB 5750

 

What is the actual spec of the mac you have? @nosirrah123

I wish,

 

Dual core i3 at 2.06 GHz and a 4670 256 MB

 

I looked online and it says the 4670 has .5 GB, but Apple must have put their foot down, "What do you think we are!? some chumps that'll make a decent computer at a reasonable price!?"

- "some salty pretzel bun fanboy" ~ @helping, 2014
- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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Mmm, OP calling a Mac crap because it can't game.

 

This is not a review, but rather a biased load of crap comparing a device from A SINGLE POINT. A review would actually have some real content, covering all aspects of the device.

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iMacs are awesome. Back then they sucked.

 

Wait  for broadwell. Or the haswell refresh. They are beast. Though you would need discrete graphics since Intel Iris kinda sucks

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