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"I was assuming that most people doing this would be dismantling an iMac and thus could keep the stock cooler components, and attempt to utilise those..."
For post-2014 5K 27" iMacs you don’t need to assume:
My "latest Macs" are a heavily upgraded 2009 Mac Pro (6c CPU, M.2 SSD, USB 3, RX580...) and more recently a 12c 2013 Mac Pro with an eGPU (Vega 56) - both machines with more than enough CPU power, GPU power and RAM for my needs, but I long aspired to upgrade to a nice 5k monitor to replace my...
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Most people haven’t bothered with cooling solutions.
My build did - with a 21.5" iMac fan :
My build is now more or less complete. Haha, I started out thinking minimally, but that's not how things have turned out - 6.66 Kg is the number of the beast, well its weight... 1. R1811, bought from Chinese seller on eBay UK. This is mounted so that access to the cable ports are retained...
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This builder used the stock fan:
The time has finally come for me to convert my 2017 5K iMac. What I have yet to find is a conversion that keeps the stock iMac look. This is what my project aims to achieve. The stock look is achieved using the Thunderbolt 3 ports as input for both USB-C and DisplayPort. The USB A ports and...
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"Have you had success with the original backlight board?"
Three of the available LED video driver boards - R1811, R9118 and U49 - come with additional backlight constant current driver boards.
The U49 kit (5K 8-bit) comes with one as standard.
The R9A18 and R1811 boards (5K 10-bit) have a backlight drive on the board as standard, but there is an additional DZ-LP0818 board available as an extra.
This may also work with other T18/T19 boards - I have no information on that.
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Its main purpose is to boost the backlight of 'remanufactured' AliExpress 27" 5K screens where they have been rebuilt after the glass has been broken or the LED has been replaced.
These screens often don't perform like new and need to be boosted...
If you have a good condition stock Apple 5K screen then the brightness is usually good enough for most people.
A standard R1811 has been measured at 332 nits, but with the DZ-LP0818 it was boosted to 461 nits.
This obviously varies a bit from screen to screen.