notso bad

Thanks for all the advice. I couldn't find the graphics card online for less than $385 so I don't think I will spend the money. I may try to use it as a second display, since that is driven by the connected computer. Most likely I will dismantle it to remove th hard drive and junk it. It is a quad core i5, so that is why I thought about squeezing a little more life out of it.

I have a 2009 iMac 27. It was replaced by a 5K iMac for my use and kept as backup and for family use. Besides routine internet and word processing, is used for garage band, editing on apple photos, Affinity photo or photoshop cs5, which my daughter is learning. The graphics card died. I was quoted $400 including labor to fix it, and another 200 to change the hard drive while they were at it (since I worry that could go soon, being several years old) Is it worth spending this much to keep an older machine going? I should mention that i upgraded the RAM years ago to 12 or 16. Alternatively she would use a 3 y old mac air with external drive (NAS, once I finish setting it up) Thanks, NB