WX 4150 in mid 2011 iMac?

[t3kgamer]

Hello I'm in the process of converting my late 2009 iMac to a mid 2011 with a mid 2011 motherboard including an MXM slot. I already ordered all the parts necessary (I hope), and i'm not seeing too much information about the Radeon Pro WX 4150 other than the HP zbook (which this card came out of)

Does it just work or am I in for some massive headache on this one?

 

[theroadw]

2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

iMac 2009 to 2011 MXM3 graphics card upgrade (Lastest update 10/13/2023 - this is the official documentation page - you found it finally!) This is the single and only documentation post. During the last years we constantly updated this post to reflect the lastet development of vBIOS and OCLP...

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[t3kgamer]

2011 iMac Graphics Card Upgrade

iMac 2009 to 2011 MXM3 graphics card upgrade (Lastest update 10/13/2023 - this is the official documentation page - you found it finally!) This is the single and only documentation post. During the last years we constantly updated this post to reflect the lastet development of vBIOS and OCLP...

forums.macrumors.com

Very helpful link thanks!

 

[phunguss]

I have an iMac12,2 27" that I upgraded to a Xeon about 6 months ago, and have been following that thread for some time. I bought an HP WX4150 and never got around to flashing it until last week (did the solder mod as well, page 582). I added an internal 500Gb SSD and swapped the internal 3.5HD to a 2TB. So this completes the journey of upgrades for hardware... Big Sur did install, have not tried Montery yet. The forum pages I found most useful were pages 1, 347, 435, 637, and 643. My High Sierra still requires a momentary external monitor to turn on the LCD, but it works fine under BS. Mine has the 2pipe video card heatsink, no mods needed for the WX4150.

Processor: from i5-2500S @ 2.7GHz to Xeon E3-1245 @ 3.3GHz
RAM: 8gb to 32Gb
HD: 500Gb to 2TB+500SSD
Video: 512 MB Radeon HD 6770M to HP WX4150 4Gb

Original

Xeon and RAM upgrade

HS about this mac (doesn't like xeon)

BS upgrade (recognizes xeon)

GB5 Metal score

 

[t3kgamer]

Aweso

I have an iMac12,2 27" that I upgraded to a Xeon about 6 months ago, and have been following that thread for some time. I bought an HP WX4150 and never got around to flashing it until last week (did the solder mod as well, page 582). I added an internal 500Gb SSD and swapped the internal 3.5HD to a 2TB. So this completes the journey of upgrades for hardware... Big Sur did install, have not tried Montery yet. The forum pages I found most useful were pages 1, 347, 435, 637, and 643. My High Sierra still requires a momentary external monitor to turn on the LCD, but it works fine under BS. Mine has the 2pipe video card heatsink, no mods needed for the WX4150.

Processor: from i5-2500S @ 2.7GHz to Xeon E3-1245 @ 3.3GHz
RAM: 8gb to 32Gb
HD: 500Gb to 2TB+500SSD
Video: 512 MB Radeon HD 6770M to HP WX4150 4Gb

Original
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Xeon and RAM upgrade
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HS about this mac (doesn't like xeon)
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BS upgrade (recognizes xeon)
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GB5 Metal score
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Awesome! Thanks for the info I'm glad it works like that