Need new video card for 27" iMac

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iMac Intel 27" EMC 2309 & 2374

iMac Intel 27" EMC 2309 (Late 2009, Core 2 Duo 3.06 or 3.33 GHz) ID iMac10,1, EMC 2374 (Late 2009, Core i5 2.66 GHz or Core i7 2.8 GHz) ID iMac11,1

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My 9 year old 27" iMac needs a new video card but repair shop can't find one. Help?!

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mayer @mayer Rep: 685.3k MacHale Enterprises 3.4k 1.1k 2.6k · Answer 1 · 2017-05-25T10:44:59-07:00

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The 2009 27" iMacs used:

My experience has been about a 75% success rate with doing a reflow of the GPU using an inexpensive hot air workstation.

The GPUs are high dollar because of supply and demand but I found them very available.

You can do it yourself or tell your tech how to do it:

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