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Now for the second part of the double-whammy: the way the CPU connects to the socket, which I guess is still part of the heatsink clusterfuck, since the CPU doesn’t sit in its socket without the heatsink, and when you attach the heatsink, the CPU can slide around in its socket, possibly sitting crooked and bending the feck out of the little socket connectors, each of which have specific connections to make and cannot short with each other and cannot be bent in weird ways… aaaaargh, aaaaaargh, well, you get the picture. If I had put a cuss-count device on my desk as I worked on this stage of the process, and more so, every time I worked on this stage of the process, I’d have surely racked up some serious numbers.
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Little did I know when I decided to be thorough with my cleaning, that it was going to be more of an adventure than I bargained for… First, I should set up the double-whammy scenario by saying that the way the heatsink assembly attaches to the motherboard is one of the most awkward and accident-prone setups in hardware design history.
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I figured it’d be a simpler setup, and it is.
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So now, I have no more NVMe SSD, no more Apple SSD, no more Fusion Drive, just one big SSD, plus my external drives. The application of the adhesive was cleaner from the factory, but when I worked on it things got messier. There are circuits on the other side of the motherboard going right under the mount, so there’s no way they could have put a proper mount with a flange there. As I said previously, it’s a design flaw, more like an afterthought. Now you can have a proper look at that supposed metal mount for the Apple SSD, which on this iMac is simply set with adhesive on the motherboard. Anyway, it’s a lot easier for me to open up my iMac than it is for those who stubbornly cling to using the adhesive strips every time (there’s a joke in there somewhere).Īfter I opened it, it looked a bit grungy (the fan pulls in a lot of air and dust), and it had been almost a couple of years since I’d last cleaned it thoroughly, so I decided to take the heatsink assembly off the motherboard and replace the thermal paste - give it one last proper once-over, so to speak. The display is black, the tape is black, it blends right in. You can’t even see them from the front of the computer.
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It’s not pretty, but it’s not ugly, particularly if you cut the four strips equally and neatly, and you affix them at fairly exact points. I’ve bypassed all that crap, given how many times I’ve had to open up my iMac, and I use four strips of black electrical tape to hold the display to the case at each of its four corners. Those of you who’ve opened up iMacs released from 2012 onward know how much “fun” it is to pry open the adhesive strips that hold the display affixed to the aluminum body. Now it’s at $470.īack in January, I set to work on the upgrade. I got a SanDisk Ultra 3D NAND SSD at 314 Euro (at the time). I waited for the SSD prices to come down, so I could get a 4TB SSD at a decent price, which happened in late 2020. I also wanted to bypass the whole argument of whether to split or not to split my Mac’s Fusion Drive. I wanted a big SSD, so I could fit all my regular work on the computer, only resorting to external hard drives for the big photo and video files. My latest upgrade, as I suggested in my previous post on the subject, is the replacement of my Fusion Drive setup (HDD + NVME) with an SSD. How is that possible? It’s simple: it was top of the line when it came out, with a maxed out processor and video processor. It’s still great as my photo editing and video editing (including 4K) machine. Yes, my main computer is still my late-2013 iMac.