- MACBOOK PRO 2010 LOGIC BOARD 13 330M INSTALL
- MACBOOK PRO 2010 LOGIC BOARD 13 330M UPGRADE
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The benefit? You don't have to worry about switching between GPUs, there's only one to deal with in this system. The GeForce 320M also offers around 80% of the performance of the GT 330M in the 15-inch. Our WoW test actually went from choppy to playably smooth on the new 13-inch MacBook Pro compared to last year's 15-inch with a 9400M. Performance is much better than last year's GeForce 9400M, you're looking at more than double the frame rate. We'll start with World of Warcraft running at 800 x 600: Is the upgraded NVIDIA GPU worth it? To find out I ran a handful of gaming benchmarks, both under Windows 7/Boot Camp and OS X (thank you Valve).
If Apple wants to move the 13-inch platform to a Core i3/i5/i7 it needs to redesign its system to somehow make it fit or pray for a NVIDIA Arrandale chipset. Looking at Intel's roadmaps, there are no package shrinks planned for Arrandale throughout 2010. Something Apple didn't want to sacrifice by going to the Core i5. A single chip for the CPU and one for the chipset/GPU, that's how Apple is able to keep its current motherboard/chassis design with the upgrade.
MACBOOK PRO 2010 LOGIC BOARD 13 330M FULL
Like the 9400M, the 320M has a full fledged chipset to go along with it. The 320M has 48 cores up from the 16 that were in last year's GeForce 9400M.
MACBOOK PRO 2010 LOGIC BOARD 13 330M UPGRADE
It's an upgrade from the 2.26GHz model that shipped with last year's model, but no where near as fast as the Core i5 you get with the 15-inch MBP.Īpple justifies the mild CPU upgrade by including a much more potent GPU: the GeForce 320M. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro starts with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor based on the three year old Penryn core. Rather than sacrifice the GPU, Apple sacrificed CPU speed. There's not enough motherboard real estate to include an Arrandale Core i3/i5 CPU plus an NVIDIA discrete GPU like Apple does in the new 15 and 17-inch models. The unwillingness to ship a Mac without real GPGPU support leads us to the current problem with the 13-inch MacBook Pro. In preparation for what I'm not really sure, but something is coming.
MACBOOK PRO 2010 LOGIC BOARD 13 330M INSTALL
From the looks of it, Apple is trying to broaden its install base of OpenCL compliant machines. These are all G9x based GPUs with full support for OpenCL. For the past 1.5 years every single Mac has shipped with some form of NVIDIA graphics, standard, regardless of price. In the case of a functional part, it has been fully tested prior to putting in stock and is guaranteed to be fully functional.Apple is up to something. This is a used part from a recycled computer. No refund will be given for logic boards damaged during fitting. Thermal paste is available from the Tools section. If you remove the heat sink from the logic board, the seal must be re-made adequately when the new board is fitted to ensure the MacBook Pro does not overheat.
This is a highly static-sensitive device and replacement should not be attempted without suitable experience and anti-static precautions. This logic board has a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 Processor with two integrated graphics cards, Intel HD Graphics Card with 256MB of VRAM which is shared with the computers main ram, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 256MB of dedicated VRAM. This is the 15" MacBook Pro Unibody Logic Board for the Mid 2010 model only.