01-25-2019, 08:09 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
[quote=apocketfulofwry]
Mid-2010 iMac 27".
$1900 for a refurb.
Over the years, I had to replace the hard drive [SSD, baby], and the power supply, but despite an occasionally dodgy video card, paltry RAM, and being obsoleted to Sierra, it still does everything I need it to do
That's the model I just picked up, but I don't know it had a dodgy video card history. What are the symptoms?
Also, just loaded High Sierra, hopefully it wasn't too ambitious.
I should have said 'failing' rather than 'dodgy. Video cards can fail after a time. The symptom, in my case, is multi-colored pixelation flashing on the screen. Minor occurrences can be dismissed, but more severe ones can cause the computer to lock-up, or crash, and restart itself. So, I save my work more frequently—not a bad practice in any event.
I can live with it for now, but I'm looking into replacing the video card.