iMac RAM Upgrade mixing different memory sticks: 27” iMac late 2013
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- How to upgrade iMac RAM, cheap & easy, mixing 16GB with the original 8GB memory sticks, dual-channel, in 2019, matching ram sizes in pairs.
Check the RAM I bought:
▶︎ geni.us/sAiI - Timetec Hynix 16GB kit on Amazon
Compatible with the following 27" iMacs:
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
The important specs for these models are:
PC3-12800, Unbuffered, Nonparity, 204-pin, 1600MHz, DDR3 SDRAM
Other iMac RAM Kits on Amazon:
▶︎ geni.us/J41q
Disclaimers:
- As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
- The products I reviewed in this video were purchased on my own money and no company paid me to say good things about them.
Chapters
0:00 iMac Memory Upgrade
0:51 Why I use a Mac: Final Cut Pro X
0:59 Buying an iMac? 21" vs 27"
1:33 My 2013 Quad Core i7 27" 8GB iMac
1:44 Editing videos with only 8GB
2:04 Which memory your Mac needs??
2:34 How to install the RAM sticks
3:05 Mixing different RAM sizes
3:36 The correct order for best performance
4:21 Dual Channel vs Single Channel
4:56 Final Cut Pro: rendering faster with more RAM?
5:52 How much RAM is enough? SSD is even better
6:28 Do you use an old mac?
6:38 Credits
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Before you spend a bunch of money buying 4 new RAM sticks, consider keeping your original memory and just buying two additional sticks. You should try it! And pay attention to the position of the sticks so the memory operates in Dual Channel mode.
IMPORTANT: you MUST match the SPEED (frequency in MHz) and TYPE for all the used sticks.
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Timetec Hynix 16GB (the kit I bought) on Amazon:
▶︎ geni.us/sAiI
Compatible with the following 27" iMacs:
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Mid 2015)
- iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
- iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
The important specs for these models are:
PC3-12800, Unbuffered, Nonparity, 204-pin, 1600MHz, DDR3 SDRAM
Other iMac RAM Kits on Amazon:
▶︎ geni.us/J41q
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
If your this smart on tech why still use apple products I'm actually confused 🤔 because from the specs and the price on there products and also he ui isn't that great, Apple's products is garbage compare to any phone or pc. Pls respond I'm actually curious
*Hello Geek Detout*
*I'm your new subscriber*
*I like your videos very nice*
*I need to upgrade my iMac 5k* *2017 can you suggest me a less* *and the best price of Ram*
This is such a good video I had to subscribe to your channel. I was wondering about mixing ram etc and which slot to put them in, great job!
@@ryzen2514 Well I've had my iMac running for over 9 years and only changed out the hdd with a ssd and increased ram. Every windows machine I have ever had couldn't be upgraded to the next OS without replacing the machine. IE: Win 7 to 10 (No way I was playing with Win 8 and the "Metro" of hell) I have had friends with really nice Windows machines that had to replace them before 5 years. But the other Apple selling point is how their products work together. I couldn't do 1/2 of what I do with Graphics, Video, or Audio on a Windows Machine. But windows has better versions of Office why I run it in a Virtual Machine. Beyond Office and some proprietary apps that clients use I have no need for Windows.
@SLAN _FFA If the memory specs meet the requirements of the 27" iMac you are wanting to put the memory in.
literally the best video i’ve found that answered all of my questions in one video.
Thank you! 😄
+1
I agree well done video, great yet simple explaination
I love how you use the classic stopwatch instead of a phone or something.
Ha ha ha! I love using it! The touch feedback of real buttons is like nothing else - you won’t miss the mark 😁
Very helpful. One comment: I upgraded from two 8GB sticks by adding two 16GB sticks. I used your instructions on order. It worked. But, it took maybe 20 seconds for the Apple startup chime to sound. I wasn't used to this and thought it wasn't working. I took the old chips out and restarted with just the new chips. I noticed that it took longer to make the startup sound. Since Geek Detour said mixing does work (and the people who sold me the new sticks also said it would work) I then re-installed the old sticks (using the correct order, as described herein), and it did work. So, if you make the upgrade then be sure to give the machine enough time to do whatever it does when it restarts.
This was probably the best informed description on how to install and whether you can mix RAM. Thanks!
Thank you! I am happy you enjoyed it 😊
Man, you made the exact video that I needed. My situation is the same as yours. Thank you very much! Greetings from Brazil.
Glad it helped! É nóis 🤣🇧🇷
Thanks for testing all those RAM combinations. I have 8GB of RAM and bought some new 16GB sticks. I loaded them in the optimal way just on a guess, but I appreciate your confirmation of my intuition.
Thank you for the video. I'm buying an additional 16 GB this weekend and wondered which way I should install the RAM. This video helped a lot.
This guy is absolutely the best. He understands all the right iMac questions and how to answer them
This is exactly what I needed, went from 8 to 24 on my mid 2015 iMac but didn't notice much difference. When I reordered them the change was amazing, Thanks.
Hi David 👋 I am really happy for you, man! Thanks for sharing your experience!
I was always wanting to upgrade my RAM, I discovered this video, after watching this video I order 2X8GB RAM right away and installed in the order you recommended, thank you!!!
You have literally just answered all my question in this one video, legend ! I’m wanting to upgrade my wifes 2013 27inch iMac and was wondering if I buy and mix the ram haha I’m so happy thank you!!
Hey 👋 My pleasure! Thank you for letting me know! 😃
Very helpful! Thanks!! I just ordered more RAM and I wasn't sure if 24 would be enough. I'm very glad to see that it was enough for you.
After several Google searches that did not result in answers to my RAM upgrade questions, you answered them all in one clear and entertaining video. Great job!
Thank you GuyNoir 😁 Really happy you enjoyed it!
I agree with you about 24GB of Ram. I went from 32 to 24 GB of RAM in my Mac Pro. Much better performance as I initiated triple channel memory and that made a huge difference. Thank you.
Now as my needs grow maybe I will upgrade the Mac Pro further. ;)
Thank you. I've been up all night trying to find the answer to updating my late 2012 27" Imac...
I couldn't find the right answer to which of the card banks were best for my new 8gb sticks (x2)...
This video answered every question almost as if you'd heard my struggle!!
Many thanks. I have subscribed. And now I can sleep :)
Wow! I am so glad you found exactly what you needed 😁 Let’s keep our old iMacs running awesome!
Thanks for the well explained video. I had 8GB of the original RAM sitting idle for 3-4 years that I had replaced with 16 GB RAM I bought after market. Your suggested configuration worked perfectly and I now have 24 gigs of usable RAM for my 27" iMac (late 2013). Thanks a ton!
Hey, that’s great!
Literally the best video ever never I have seen before. Most presentable way and excellent language and presentation. Wonderful. Keep it up
Thank you Kalyan!
Hi everybody! I edited half of this video using 8GB of RAM (as I always did)... and later I tried 16GB and finally 24GB. Does it make a huge difference? From 8 to 16GB, A LOT! Moving from 16 to 24GB, hard to tell.
I upgraded from 16 to 32. Hard to tell too. Waste of my money.
@@jomontanee I was getting "out of memory errors" in the software I run, other then that error going away, I see little difference as well.
Hi. I have a Late 2013 iMac 27 with the I5 and NVDIA GT755 and 16GB of original factory RAM (two 8GB sticks). I have been a light user, but I left my corporate job to start a new business and I need to do start doing more video editing. I have already upgraded to an external SSD as my startup, which has been life-changing: I thought I would need to buy a new computer for my business, but I think I will keep this one now. Two questions: 1) Should I upgrade to 24GB (two 4GB sticks based on your explanation), 32GB, or am I good with 16GB? 2) My Mac seems to be running fine on Catalina, but I am wondering what you are thinking about yours as we reach the stage where Apple might stop supporting Catalina updates. I know you did this video 2-3 years ago, but the topic seems still relevant today. Thanks!
Hi, It's a great video. You explained in absolute detail. Thanks a lot.
Thank you Ashar, I am glad you liked it 😁
Great video. You covered all the information I was looking for and gave me the exact steps I needed in order to upgrade my Ram. Thank you.
Hey! My pleasure! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁
I watched many videos on this subject and they left me asking more questions. Your video answered all my questions clearly. Really well done video. Thank you for your help on adding RAM to my iMac.
Thank you! I wish you all the luck in your upgrade!
My tip is about speeding up your iMac. Never restore from TimeMachine. You just keep all the conflicts of software from days gone by. Use Time Machine by all means as your backup device but drag your documents and library files from Time Machine to the equivalent locations on your iMac after you have returned it to new through the Cmd+R command/erase Disk and Reinstall OS - or if you have bought a new iMac. You will need to show hidden files to get access to the Library using Cmd+Shift+. - Apple updates the OS every year and this eventually slows your system down. That is why a clean install is best. You will be amazed how much longer your iMac will last you if you follow this basic housekeeping tip that almost nobody recommends because Apple is supposed to take care of it for you. They don’t. They WANT you to upgrade your machine!
Using this method you can regain the speed and efficiency you had when your iMac was new.
Would the same increase is speed be achieved by removing all the previous/older software updates?
Bernhard Nizynski I imagine there could be some improvement but a clean install is what Apple recommends on a newly formatted hard drive. Think about how many upgrades there are over the years. Mine went back 2010 on my time machine. I wouldn’t ever do a partial clean out after the astonishing results I achieved. I won’t need to upgrade for at least 2 years now. My iMac will be a high performance machine much longer than any PC at a similar price. Plus you dump all those useless and unused installed software you never use anymore and everything sitting on your system related with them.
You're a really good youtuber because you anwser almost every comment. :)
Ha ha... I wasn’t really in the mood to answer comments today - but I want to continue being a good UA-camr 🤣 Thank you!
Less than a minute in and already best video on this subject. Bravo!!
Wow man! Thank you very much 🥰
I can't thank you enough for this video! You answered damn near every question I had on this topic after coming up short everywhere else on the web (including Apple's own memory installation guides!).
Wow Ty, I really appreciate your kind words! Thank you!
Same for me! I just wondered if it‘ll work with my new iMac from 2019 which will arrive next week...but I think at this point, I just might be paranoid because I don’t want to mess anything up!😂
I am using an old iMac 27" i7 late 2009 model. I upgraded the memory from 4GB to 12GB(OWC) after I got the Mac. I didn't feel performance was improved too much. Recently, my internal HD had SMART failure even it worked fine after reformatted, but it could be dead in a period of time. Some say few hours, some say few days and some say FEW YEARS! Anyway, I then just bought an OWC ssd with an installation kit. After the installation, damn my old iMac is flying! I can feel the performance just boosting crazy! I no longer need to wait for the machine to turn on or for the background processes finish. I would recommend everyone to upgrade the internal storage to ssd.
How did you open it up and do the upgrade? I want to replace my late 2013 27 inches drive. It has gotten rather slow.
@@gonorsilvet2581 - I have the same idea, but am considering an external drive, as I don't want to have to open up the machine?
@@bernhardnizynski4403 external drives are nice but they will be hogging up my ports.
Parabéns cara mesmo assistindo os vídeos legendados,gosto muito do jeito que você explica e etc,passa uma experiência de uma pessoa comum sabe?,como se fosse no dia a dia,gosto muito dos vídeos e espero que continue crescendo
Yuri, gostei demais dos elogios 😁 Quando escrevo os roteiros dos vídeos, fico sempre na luta entre passar um monte de informação, ou deixar a coisa mais casual... Tento abraçar as duas coisas e fico parecendo aquele amigo esquisitão que quer te mostrar um monte de coisas em 5 minutos 🤣 Obrigado por assistir!
thank you for having a watchable personality especially with this subject matter ..my brother bought me this new imac 27in and he gives me little homework assignments so i understand what i am using.. You are an excellent teacher and fun to watch.
Oh, thank you! I really appreciate!
Thank you for the advice and perfect instructions! Upgraded my iMac to 24GB at a terrific price and it took less than 5 minutes!
That’s great, Tom! I am glad it helped you 🤗❤️
I like your vids I hope you will make more in the future
Absolutely, Blue Tiger! Already working on the next one 😁 It takes time because... of me! I am complicated, ha ha ha. But I love making videos - slowly, but I love it! 💕
I have a silly question, where did you get all of this charisma ? I mean you’re the most interesting to watch geek blogger out there.
And by the way what do you do out of youtube ?)
Ah, Ivan... thank you! You just made my day! ☺️😆 I studied advertising - but I always worked with WebDevelopment (I began as a webdesigner, but in 2003 I moved more and more to programming). I also made 2 iOS Apps with a dear friend: iMimic (for iPhone and iPad) and MaxiCalc (for iPad only). I am trying to be a full time UA-camr, while (trying) being a good father 😁
@@GeekDetour all that and a little bit of Brazilian ginga mixed in? :) Or am I wrong about that accent?
yes he is!
also i feel the same!!
Hi, I have experienced a lot of problems with my Late 2015 iMac, spontaneously freezing and rebooting itself since - as far as I can remember - Mojave. Currently running under Catalina, same issues.
When I bought my iMac in 2015 I ordered it with 2x 8GB 1867 DDR3 original Apple memory and at the same time I ordered OWC memory elsewhere: 2x 16GB 1867 DDR3 memory of the same brand, exactly the same modules. I installed the as follows: from top (slot 1) to bottom (slot 4): channel A slot 1: 16GB module, channel A slot 2: original 8GB module / channel B slot 3: 16GB module, channel B slot 4: original 8GB module.
Now that I’m experiencing so much troubles, I decided tot downgrade my 48GB RAM to 32GB RAM which should also be enough for me, and by which configuration I no longer have a mix of two capacities and probably more important: no mix of brands.
Question1: What’s your opinion about this decision? Could it free me from the freezes and reboots?
Question2: Now that I want to have only the two 16GB modules, should I place them in slot 1 and 2 (from the top of the memory housing, as Apple states them as Channel A slot 1 and 2. Or should I place one 16GB module in Channel A slot 1 and the other in Channel B slot 3?
Question 3: when I bought the iMac, factory installed were my two 8GB’s original Apple memory as follows: one in Channel A slot 2 and one in Channel B slot 4. So the question rises: would I alternatively install my two 16GB’s in those same slots 2 and 4? Would that be better than slot 1 and 3?
Thanks so much for your support!
Upgraded my Mac tonight as per your video mixing original 2x4gb with new 2x8gb , and it works great. Thanks 👍
I am glad it worked fine for you too! I am still using the same iMac with 24GB of RAM.
Geek Detour thanks for the reply: my next upgrade will be booting up with an external ssd drive. Cheers 👍
Brilliant... Thank you! I keep getting the round ball of death on my 2019 27" iMac. I am hoping more memory will give more stability.
I did open 21.5" (2013) iMac for SSD (SATA) and memory upgrade (to 8gb x 2 = 16gb). Opening the slim line iMacs, with the right tools, is not that intimidating (actually, way easier than iPod classic). 21.5" iMac SSD upgrade (SATA) was a breeze, but memory -- took a lot of patience and time to complete.
Fast forwards, my whole household only use 27" iMac (2013 x 2 and 2015 x 1). I bought all base models (i5, 8GB and HDD), but did the SSD (SATA) and memory upgrade on my own. Now, they all have 4gb x 2 and 8gb x 2 = 24 gb, like yours. I found SSD (even just SATA) would be the most single improvement from the upgrade. 27" iMac will need a hard drive bracket, into 3.5" for the SSD portion. I will highly suggest you to do an internal SSD replacement - I think you would be the right person to explore this task. Just get 1. the "pizza cutter" blade to cut the glue, 2. reseal strip and 3. hard drive bracket 4. the SSD of your choice
When applying the reseal tapes on the aluminum case - do not bother to use the bottom strip AND do not peal the "second side of the double tape" until MUCH LATER.
You first align the screen , connect the 2 cables to the screen. I usually use an electric tape to hold them together -- boot it up and restore, to make sure all is working first. I stressed test them for few days, before completing the seal process.
I later removed the electric tape, then by holding the screen close to the case, you can gently pull the taps from the double-side take to seal it -- all three-sides.
I found pure SSD experience is much better than Fusion drive. I mainly do music, sound editing.
Good luck and Thank you for the opening iPod Classic tricks.
Sam, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED your comment! This type of exchange is so precious - thank you for giving your perspective and personal experience.
I must confess I am very afraid of opening my iMac... it is my main computer - I really depend on it to work and pay the bills. The iPod Classic was a superfluous project... it was already unusable, so, I had nothing to lose. If I break my iMac, right now it would be a huge financial problem to me! This fear is leading me to try an external SSD - although I really feel the best thing would be an internal upgrade. Let’s see...
I'm new to all this and am moving with caution, but your style and quiet yet bubbly confidence are a great encouragement to me tackling this RAM capacity improvement myself.
(Currently I have four x 4 GB RAM cards in my increasingly elderly Late-2013 27"and thought that was the maximum it could handle running macOS Catalina 10.15.7)
Recently been wasting so much time frustratedly waiting, during editing of still photographs, and being halted by repeated messages of 'You are running out of RAM".
Thank you, Mr Geek Detour.
Will let you know how it goes. :)
Hi Michael! I am still using this same iMac 27” from 2013 - still with 24GB. If I would do the upgrade today, I would completely remove the 4GB sticks and install 4 x 8GB sticks, for 32GB which is the maximum Apple says this machine supports.
Something that also made a big change was installing Mac OS on an SSD (I used an external USB SSD, 2TB).
I wish you good luck with your machine! It is sad Apple stopped supporting it, it still feels like a very capable machine to me.
@@GeekDetour Hello Buddy, Thank you so much for your amazing video and the way you explained every thing is super good - I have 2020 Imac 27"inch 5K Retina which supports upto 128 GB RAM. I have 4 RAM Sticks of 8GB Each Crucial Brand and 2 RAM Sticks of 4GB Each Apple Stock. Can you please help me what stick should I use to get maximum of MHz and Dual Channel Use . You reply would help a lot Thank you
I just followed your steps and it is now 40gb of Ram in my 2019 iMac 27 " instead 8gb. I got the Tecmiyo brand and it's working... Awesome video, thanks dude!!!
I followed this advise, and it worked perfect. I'm back up to full speed. Thank you so much!!!
Excellent! I am glad you are happy with the results!!!
Thanks for your videos. Its very interesting. From mother Russia with respect))))
Hey 👋 Thank YOU for watching! Ha ha, I don’t know exactly why... but here in the channel many people ask me if I am Russian! I find it very funny and somewhat flattering 😁
That's great! Finally as clear as it should be! Thanks a lot for this video!
One of the best videos for upgrading RAM Great Jog
Thank you Pat!
Coming up on Geek Detour!
Ha ha ha - you have no idea how happy I get when I finally change a video to "Public" and hit "Save" :)
In the world of PC, "Dual Channel", "Single Channel", "Quad Channel" are hot topics with lots of discussion. But in the Mac world, it is hard to find good information about it. For sure macs also have these technologies - but if you don't set up your memories properly, the system simply don't warn you! THAT WAS UNEXPECTED :(
Go to LinusTechTips channel and got your answer there...
Hi there! I watch LinusTechTips - awesome channel! But I found NO VIDEOs discussing Dual Channel VS Single Channel on Macs. A bunch of great videos discussing dual-channel on PCs. That was exactly what I commented :)
@@GeekDetour okay you probably will find little information about Mac's at Linus but you did learn a lot about memory and its configs... so if you do not know already check Louis Rossmann channel and you can also try to contact him. He will probably be THE ONE to help you about Mac computers...
Doesn't warn you when upgrading PCs either. With macs I imagine it works exactly the same because the RAM and CPU are designed to work that way. Since technology has gotten faster I think the difference is pretty negligible with single vs dual. I tend to find stuff of the past are so ingrained with people they remember a lot of tech myths or things no longer true.
Thanks for this video.
I am thinking of upgrading my 2013” 27” iMac to the new 2020 model, as I have noticed a fair amount of slow down since moving to Catalina.
I was shocked at how much a Apple charge for upgrading the ram, compared to its actual cost,. My current iMac was part of my college work and it was all done for me. 👍😁👍
So your video will be a great help moving forward.
Thanks again.👍
Thanks a lot for this video, it's becoming very hard to find short but useful videos, like yours, on youtube nowadays. Sorry for the bad english, non native speaker here.
Thank YOU for your kind words 😊 Your English is totally cool - and it is not my native language either! I am from Brazil, but I live in Spain 🤣
Computer when ram is installed : ohh yeah i feel it (8 gb)
Ahan feels good (16 gb)
Tastes like coconut and metal ( 24 gb)
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Its very funny, I have an iMac 27” 2019 40GB ram and the time to rendering compare when I put out the 32GB and keep the 16GB ITS THE SAME!!! Just 2 seconds difference! Saaad!
Thinking of the same...dont want too buy another 32gb so instead of apples 8 I was thinking of going 16 8 16 8...?? Or should I just take out apples..8 and just run the 32 I got?
RAM has virtually no impact on rendering speeds. It will only load more information at one time to work on before the computer has to resort to writing data to the hard drive (which is usually much slower than the RAM.) For faster rendering times, you'll need a faster CPU or graphics card or both. Like he said in the video, if you're on a limited budget, getting a faster hard drive will make the biggest impact of the two.
Thanks so much. Upgraded my Late 2014 27" iMac from 16GB (2x8Gb) to 32Gb (2x8Gb) with the recommended RAM. Easy to do and works perfectly!
I am glad you could do it perfectly! 😁
Thanks for the help! Clear advice with the data to back up your claims, that's priceless these days.
Thank YOU! I appreciate the kind words 😁
Brilliant video mate. Very useful. Just upgraded my iMAC based on your recommendations. 8+4+8+4. It was fun watching your videos, so engaging. Keep going, all the best - stay safe and healthy
Thank you! Happy to help 😄
Thanks for the video. Does this still apply to the 2019 iMac 27"? Apple site had confusing instructions support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1, "If your DIMMs are mixed in capacity, minimize the capacity difference between Channel A (slots 1 and 2) and Channel B (slots 3 and 4) when possible." The numbered the slots 1,2,3,4 in the diagram. I alternated them as described in this video starting with an 8 on the bottom. System reports I have 4GB and seems to be running fine. Hard to know for sure. How can. verify?
Excellent - the most informative vid on iMac ram i've seen
Wow, much appreciated! 😄
I congratulate you for this great and simple explanation. Thank you.
You are welcome! Thanks for Watching :)
Excellent explanation. Short and very useful video. THANKS A LOT. I just subscribed to your channel.
Thank you 🙏🏻 final someone who is captivating and informative!
Hey, thank you! You just made my day 😄
Thanks for such a clear and well-explained video!
Thank you for the kind words! Happy 2020! 🎊
absolutely fantastic guy.to the point and very very watchable with a brilliant personality.good work my friend
Thank you Mark!
been on hold to apple for 18 minutes, googled this, and you have answered ALL my questions. thank you so much!
Hey! Awesome 👏 Which iMac model is yours?
@@GeekDetour late 2013, i5 with a hd, I'm pimping the RAM tomorrow and will probably get a specialist to instal the ssd. I gather from what you were saying that the boost in ssd and ram really work in tandem off each other, so im looking forward to a practically new machine in theory!
The SSD has a HUGE impact on performance - you won’t believe it. I changed the SSD on a MacBook white 2009, a MacBook Pro 2011, a Samsung Windows PC and they are still very usable machines despite being so old - watch: ua-cam.com/video/y-qVu0ZhW9c/v-deo.html
Brilliant, concise and really informative. Gave me all the help i needed. Thanks!!
My pleasure, Alex! Thanks!
Exactly what i needed to know! thank you for all these great informations!😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much🙏 im very new to iMac and MacBook. you helped me a lot. very simple and easy to understand.
This was extremely helpful information. I need to upgrade my memory and followed your exact directions to place an order. I am hopeful that I can install according to your recommendations when they arrive. Thanks for your help.
Hey, It's been 3 weeks since your comment... Did the memories arrive? How was it?
@@GeekDetour Yes, I installed the memory cards and all is working great! Thanks for checking in
Extremely useful video, very clearly explained. Thank you!
Thank YOU! Very kind words - I am happy you enjoyed it!
Man, you made the exact video that I needed. My situation is the same as yours. Thank you very much! Greetings from Norway! :).
Glad it helped! Thank you and I wish you an excellent 2021!!!
The exact video i was looking for. I was trying to mix the base 8GB RAM on my 2020 iMac with a new 32GB stick.
Hi Daniel! Important: you could use a single 32GB stick but you shouldn’t. The maximum performance is obtained when you use RAM sticks in pairs.
Thanks a lot! I was looking for it and not found the right answer! You're the top!
That’s great! I am glad it helped you!
Excellent! I got one iMac the same model and your explanation is outstanding.
Thank you! 😁
Thanks for such a helpful video, it was just what I needed. My 2x8 ram upgrade just arrived, and I needed to know the correct order for installation. The 2x8 upgrade is currently selling around $ 70 USD and 24 MB is more than enough for most of us, making it a real bargain. Thanks again!
Hi 👋 my pleasure! I am glad it helped you 😊 I agree: 24GB is A LOT of memory 😄
@@GeekDetour Just home from work, took me five minutes, thanks again!
just watched the video - loved it - just brought 2 x 4gb to add to my 2012 iMac - thanks great videos
Hi Michael, thanks! I am happy it helped and you liked my videos 😁
Thank you this helped me very much and put them in the right order!
That’s great!
Great advice and clearly told. Much appreciated. Thank you.
I am glad you liked it!
I just want to say thank you. This helped
This video is exactly what I was looking for I just brought extra ram for my 2014 iMac and I also brought a 2 TB external SSD I will now re put the ram in the way you explained it and see if it helps Thanx!!
Hey, my pleasure! Good luck with your installation - you will certainly notice a huge difference with the SSD change.
Awesome video thank you! I just upgraded my Imac 2013 memory and it went like a dream!
Oh, thank YOU! I am glad it helped you.
Imagine that: I ran my iMac 2013 with these 24GB until last week. Then I saw the prices of the RAM again… it was just 1/4th of the price compared to when I made this video. So I bough a complete 32GB kit (4 x 8GB sticks) and now this 10 years old Mac is finally “maxed” - it is all the RAM it can take. And yes, FinalCut got better (the projects are getting bigger every time…).
I'm going to do the same today! In Black Friday sales the memory price has dropped again so now I'm going to buy another 16gb too! @@GeekDetour
Lol wow, the exact specifics of this video are what I was looking for and you answered them all for me. Got a late 2013 27” iMac with 8gb of ram, bought an extra 16 with different chips than what originally had come with the computer. All because I wanted fcpx, LR, and PS to run better! Thank you sir!
Did it improve the performance in LR and PS? I also have a late 2013 with 8 gb :)
@@FunkSoulBrotherUK it absolutely did! I can have LR, PS, FCPX, and Watching a YT video while rendering things any of those programs with barely if any lag! worth it 100%
@@timmygregsonn Awesome :) I will look into to this soon. Thanks @Geek Detour!
Thanks for the video. I have the exact same iMac and model. I couldn't find the correct RAM on Amazon until i stumbled upon your video. You also clarified a lot of what i had questions on like: rendering speed for FCPX, and overall performance of my iMac. I just ordered 16 GB of the same RAM you posted in the description. I just updated my iOS from High Sierra to Catalina and my iMac runs slow, but again I wanted to upgrade my RAM because I use FCPX a lot. Oh Well. Thanks again for the video!!!
Hi Charles 👋 I am really glad the video helped you! RAM prices are dropping all the time - and so are SSD prices. SSD makes the biggest difference for video editing. Good luck with your iMac - I will probably use mine at least until 2023... 🤣 Welcome to the channel!
I have a 2015 5k imac and am upgrading from 16k to 48k. This video was very helpful and I will check out the SSD external vid as that was something I was considering as well.
Thank you 😁 I still need to make my external SSD move 🤔 About your iMac, the official documentation from Apple say the Maximum RAM for your computer is 32GB (check it out: support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#1a ) Anyway, it is possible that you can find a kit larger than 32GB that would work on your machine... but if you try to mix it with the original ram you might be stretching your luck 😆 It could work or not, just saying. Good luck! 👍🍀
Great video my man. Keep up the witty and informative videos. Very few videos on YT that really explain if there really is a need to upgrade the RAM and if so why,,,but yours is spot on. There is very little difference for the average user unless you are utilising heavy games, make large videos(4Ketc).
Thank you Lawrence! Yeah man, there are many factors that make for a fast or slow computer - enough RAM for the task is just one of them 😁
This was great, it answered the exact questions I needed. Hold on to your glasses but I am upgrading a late 2012 Imac. I could certainly buy a new machine but I don't want to pay the monthly subscription for the Adobe products. SO anyhoo one thing I could was upgrade the RAM which makes a big difference. I did a lot of research and bought Crucial RAM from New Egg. I bought the right RAM and I followed your instructions and it was great. My machine is running much faster and I have had no issues thus far. Good job! 👍😊
Hi there! Wow, it makes me super happy! Enjoy your super fast 11 years old Mac 🤣🎉 I am also still using the iMac you saw in the video, from 2013… 10 years old machine 🤷♂️
Love your engaging attitude. Thanks a lot.
Thank you Dominique! 😁
Love & Respects from Bangladesh!! Amazing video, always love to watch!
Thank you! Wow, Bangladesh!!! Cheers from Madrid 🇪🇸
I just purchased a used 2013 27in iMac that came with 16gb of ram and after watching your video I was able to put 2 4 gb memory sticks that I had laying around to good use, Thank you for the excellent video.
Hi Gerald 👋 I am really happy it helped you 😁
@@GeekDetour I am not sure if you have done a video on this but I am trying to get photos off my non working 2009 mabook pro using the iMac. I understand you can do this using a thunderbolt cable or a usb c cable but I am not entirely sure of the process. if you have done this already can I get a link to it, if not thanks again for this one on the Ram upgrade,
Gerald, I never did a video about it - I am sure there is at least one on UA-cam already that can help you. But it will depend a lot on what you mean by “non working macbook”. Does it technically work fine, just not in use? Or is it broken somehow? In the worst case you would need to remove its hard disk and put it on an external hard disk case to plug it via USB. Anyway, if you do not pay for iCloud, after you move your photos I highly recommend you the service. If my iMac suddenly burns up in flames, I will not lose a single photo! This is an important peace of mind: knowing your important things are also in the cloud.
@@GeekDetour I have seen a couple similar videos to my problem but none with the detail and clarity your videos offer. I had been using Flicckr until they stoped being free. I was looking into setting up my own home cloud when the laptop fell of the table. I can get into disk recovery and have used it to look for problems on the hard drive and it found none but every time I try and boot it up it gets stuck rebooting over and over. I will in the end do something along the lines you suggest.
I was asking al these questions! Great video.
Thank you!
Thanks for your video. I pulled an old 2013 27" iMac out of the closet that had a bad HD. When I originally replaced it, I could barely click on an icon without it beach-balling on me for 3-4 minutes. Surprisingly, when I plugged it up, it worked pretty good for web browsing. I wasn't running Final Cut or PS at all. So I made a Time Machine backup (which took about 5 days, yikes!) When it was fully backed up, I replaced the old HD with a 1TB SSD HD and bought 2 8GB sticks of RAM to upgrade from the two original 8GB (16 total) in the iMac. This almost 10 Mac is REALLY fast with just the SSD. I look forward to added 16 more GB of RAM (32 total). Thanks for your help on this one. I'm not a computer wiz, but youtube videos like yours made this an easy process and I have an extra iMac to use downstairs that's blazing fast and about to be even faster.
Yeah! The change to an SSD shows how much the Hard Disks were a bottleneck in computers’ performance! CPU waits A LOT for things to come from disk, or to be saved to the disk - this is definitely one of the greatest revolutions of the new M1 and M2 Apple Silicon: they are working on eliminating bottleneck that the industry was not tackling.
@@GeekDetour Oh man, there's such a night and day difference between SSD and regular HD. I've had a Macbook Pro with SSD for years. Got it like 9-10 years ago when SSD was way more expensive, so it only has a 256 SSD HD but it still works and runs pretty quick. By the way, updated the ram on the old iMac. This thing is a beast now.
You are so right! I also use a 2011 MacBook Pro (i5) and with an 1TB SSD it is still very usable - for web browsing, programming, as a teleprompter generator, to write all my scripts. I just cannot edit videos on it. It is crazy to think is is an 11 years old computer, and I still use it. SSD and RAM upgrade - sick! 🤘
Very informative, it gave me confidence to buy an extra 32GB (2 16GB sticks) for my new 2020 iMac 27” and I know what order to do them in now too. Thank you
Thank you Alex!
Perfect guid. Thanks a lot!
Thank you! 😁
Simple and easy to learn
Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I just installed one 16 GB stick on my iMac 2017, so I have one free slot left. Now the machine is running 2133 MHz instead of 2400 MHz, which is the normal frequency (all sticks are 2400). I tried with Novabench and it seems that now RAM performance in total is better, but RAM speed is now 15 GB instead of 21 GB, which is the case with just the 8 GB stock setup.
YES MORE VIDEOS !!! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SO MUCHHHH
Thank you Justun! More videos are coming (more slowly than everybody wanted, but surely!) 🤣
Thanks for the clear and understandable information, now I am off to buy a iMac 27 2020,,,, happy days!
Thanks! Oh, newer Macs might have a completely different ideal configuration.
really nice man! this video helped me a lot plus you are super nice and pleasant to hear!!!!
Thank you Giuseppe! I am glad the video helped you! What did you do with your iMac? 🖥
Geek Detour i am gonna receive it next week and i am planning to buy additional ram. Do you think 16gb vs 24gb is the same if i use it for simple family video editing and some light room?
Oh, you just bought your iMac, right? If you bought it with 8 GB, you better buy additional 16GB and you will have 24GB total. If the iMac comes with 16GB, you can buy another 16GB, for 32GB. Of course 16GB on the iMac is enough to edit videos - as I said in the video, I edited everything on my channel using only 8GB!
very well done and well explained! - I just upgraded the iOS to Catalina and my iMac started to lag and programs to crash so I have ordered 4 new sticks (8Gs each) to upgrade from 8G to 32G... can't wait to see the difference! Cheers -
Yeah! RAM prices are constantly dropping - I am really considering buying another 2x 8GB just like the ones I’ve shown in the video, drop the 4 ones, and go for 32 just like you did.
I still didn’t have the money to buy my so desired 2TB SSD - on my last video project (in which everything was recorded in 4K) it got clear hard drives are my bottleneck now - Final Cut was really slugging. When your video is long and uses too much footage, you will never have enough RAM to cache it, so, disk speed in the end is always the ultimate bottleneck for media creators.
Did you install your RAM?
Thanks buddy, great video, really helped 😁👍
Glad to hear it! ❤️
Great video. Super helpful. Thanks
Excellent, I tried it.Thank you very much.
Hey, my pleasure! 🤗
Big thanks, your video just answered my question.
Glad I could help! 😄
Awesome tips brother - Thank you 🙏
Thank YOU!
Super info, no messing just good facts and well presented thanks
Thank you so much, Alan!
Everson, you are so watchable and a very useful vid too. Just about to install 8+32+8+32Gb for Dimension rendering.
Thanks! I don’t know which is your Mac - you must carefully see what is the maximum arrangement your specific model supports.
Take look at this page: support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201191
I still use this old iMac 27” from 2013, the one you watched on the video. The Maximum I could put is 32GB.
Really useful video. Thanks
Hey, thank YOU! 😁
GREAT VIDEO THANK YOU!! you are a PRO! best video so far!
Thanks! 😄 I appreciate the kind words!
Great channel , like your character
I changed my old Mac Book pro hard disk to SSD and it was faster than before , didn't need to change RAM
Hi there! Erfan, you are right: going from a hard disk to an SSD makes a huge improvement on almost any task. But not having enough RAM is also a bottleneck. But, surely, the SSD change is SUPER noticeable! 😃Thank you for watching!