With the 'cover glass fully laminated to the LCD and anti-reflective coating.' It also has a built-in 'FaceTime HD' webcam and stereo speakers, but lacks an optical drive. The iMac 'Core i5' 3.2 27-Inch Aluminum (Late 2013/Haswell) featuresĪ 22 nm 'Haswell' Quad Core 3.2 GHz Intel 'Core i5' (4570) processor withįour independent processor cores on a single chip,ġ6 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-12800) installed in pairs (two 4 GB modules),Ī NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M graphics processor with The CPU cooling block CPU/GPU hybrid is quite difficult to mount and one need to be really careful with it - something ifixit and others don't mention.LOCAL PICK UP ITEM ONLY from our Concord, North Carolina location Once tested I'll share the results here, incl. I was able to grab 3 CPU's for testing, however the 1285 is not something you can call cheap alternative to i7 -) The information I found is not conclusive and well. I will test 3 different CPU's with the iMac 27 14,2 mainboard, despite the the answer below. I'm thinking of replacing it with an i5 or i7 - but then I've seen that Xeon 2013 Xeon's are quite cheap and was wondering if the iMac Mainboard can run with it.ĭoes anybody knows if such upgrade is possible?Į3 1150 Xeon's are basically i7s without the GPU but more cache and offer better per watt performance. but on a Intel Core i3 4130 which leaves a lot to desire in terms of performance.

I recently brought an iMac 27' 14,2 back to life after a CPU fault (which in itself was odd since I never seen a PC or Mac with a fried Intel CPU) and it runs pretty nice.

Imac 27 late 2013