Are Mac CPU's integrated?

[KemoKa]

I know, a lot of people here hate macs, I am one of them but... My parents bought an iMac back in 2009. One day the machine will kick the bucket for good and they will have to throw it away. I am fine with destroying the thing (they should just sell it now -- the computer I could build for them even with what they would get for it these days...) but I was wondering: It has a Sandy Bridge i5, which as everyone knows are very popular because they overclock like bosses. Are the CPUs in Macs soldered onto the motherboards or do they use sockets? If they use sockets, I would like to cannibalize the CPU and use it for a "just because" build.

I could also cannibalize the RAM it has...

[AustinKZombie]

Sorry my friend its soldered to the mobo

[carolkarine]

if it's a box you could pull it out. I'm assuming you're not talking about a laptop.

 

wait, is this one of their AIO imacs?

[Izaya Orihara]

I know, a lot of people here hate macs, I am one of them but... My parents bought an iMac back in 2009. One day the machine will kick the bucket for good and they will have to throw it away. I am fine with destroying the thing (they should just sell it now -- the computer I could build for them even with what they would get for it these days...) but I was wondering: It has a Sandy Bridge i5, which as everyone knows are very popular because they overclock like bosses. Are the CPUs in Macs soldered onto the motherboards or do they use sockets? If they use sockets, I would like to cannibalize the CPU and use it for a "just because" build.

I could also cannibalize the RAM it has...

Afaik the use sockets. 

[ROK]

iMacs use socketed, desktop CPUs, so you should be able to salvage the processor if and when it dies.

If it's a 2009 iMac it wouldn't be using Sandy Bridge, as the first Sandy Bridge CPUs were released in 2011. A 2009 iMac will be running a Core2Duo (775 Socket).

[carolkarine]

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544+Teardown/11936

 

according to this it's not soldered on.

 

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac_Intel

 

find the exact model of yours and check, just to be sure.

[Maxwit44]

I think the AIO Imacs use SoDimms, so they wont fint inside the standard desktop.

 

 

[AustinKZombie]

I was talking about macbooks whoops

[KemoKa]

Damn, why did I think it was a Sandy? Okay, screw it, it's useless. *wants to throw away even more*

I think the AIO Imacs use SoDimms, so they wont fint inside the standard desktop.

I know. I'm the one who actually knew that. My dad, on the other hand, did not, and insisted at Best Buy that they used DIMMs. *facepalms*

two trips.

Now the Mac has 12GB of RAM. Pointless. and stupid.

[LAwLz]

I am pretty sure you will be able to remove it, but if it's Sandy Bridge then you won't be able to overlock it (not a K series CPU).

[ROK]

Damn, why did I think it was a Sandy? Okay, screw it, it's useless. *wants to throw away even more*

Prob because Intel teased sandybridge at IDF 2009

[Maxwit44]

I know. I'm the one who actually knew that. My dad, on the other hand, did not, and insisted at Best Buy that they used DIMMs. *facepalms*

two trips.

Now the Mac has 12GB of RAM. Pointless. and stupid.

 

Dad's, they'll all the same.. defiant till the end!!