Unless you ordered this model with a Fusion drive, I’d recommend replacing internal hard drive with an SSD. I did some upgrades in mine about 2 years ago, I replaced i5 6600 for i7 6700k, I sold old CPU on eBay so the cost of the upgrade was about £100 (130), I replaced also 2TB HDD for 8TB HDD, so now I have 8.
So if you’d like to keep that other slot open for future upgrades, my recommendation is to go with an 8 GB SO-DIMM to boost your iMac to 16 GB total, leaving the four slot open for a possible upgrade to 24 GB at some point in the future, if necessary.įurther down the road, the best bang for your buck for future upgrades may not be adding more memory. Matched pairs of memory can work faster than uneven SO-DIMMs, but you will gain more performance from a larger memory configuration than you will from a smaller, paired configuration. The preocess is VERY simple and only takes a few minutes. One of our clients did a RAM DIY upgrade on his 2013 27' iMac from 8 GB to 16 GB, resulting in no noticeable speed improvement. Updating the late 2015 5K Retina iMac from 8GB of RAM to 32GB of RAM. Apple iMac 15, 5K Retina i5 Quad-Core Memory Upgrades Welcome to Data Memory Systems. We always advise our clients to do an iMac SSD upgrade before the RAM upgrade. Each of the four SO-DIMM sockets on your 27-inch iMac’s motherboard can support either a 4 GB or 8 GB SO-DIMM, for maximum of 32 GB. If you are running memory-hungry programs like AutoCAD, you need to consider an iMac RAM upgrade to boost your iMac performance.
Outside of a few early Mac Pro models, no Mac requires you to upgrade RAM in pairs. “ Can I use an uneven number of RAM slots or should I just buy 2 4GB RAM boards?” Memory Upgrade for Apple iMac i5 3.3 27inch Late 2015 (MK482LL/A) Computer Apple iMac i5 3.3 27inch Late 2015 (MK482LL/A) memory specification, configuration, and compatible memory options available.
Reader BW is planning to upgrade the RAM in his 2013 27-inch iMac and asks: