We don’t have a guide to upgrade the RAM for this system. Apple made the design much harder than the regular 27” iMac’s which have a RAM access door. Here the system needs a complete teardown lifting the logic board fully out to gain access to the four SO-DIMM slots. Unless you’ve done a bit of work on the newer 2013 ‘Thin Series’ onwards iMac’s so you are comfortable in taking the display off and have taken out the logic boards I would recommend you fid someone who has as this is an expensive system to get repaired if you make any errors.
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We don’t have a guide to upgrade the RAM for this system. Apple made the design much harder than the regular 27” iMac’s which have a RAM access door. Here the system needs a complete teardown lifting the logic board fully out to gain access to the four SO-DIMM slots.
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Unless you’ve done a bit of work on the newer 2013 ‘Thin Series’ onwards iMac’s so you are comfortable in taking the display off and have taken out the logic boards I would recommend you find someone who has, as this is an expensive system to get repaired if you make any errors.
***OK I’m going for it!***
First you need special ***PC4-21300 32 GB ECC Registered RAM*** [product|IF382-003-3]
Follow this guide to take the display off [guide|30518] the cable connections are slightly different than what this guide shows. Here’s a better image of the connections.
[image|2513670]
Review this [guide|101807] for guidance as the steps of removing the logic board as that’s all there is. Step 7 is as far as you need to get to.
We don’t have a guide to upgrade the RAM for this system. Apple made the design much harder than the regular 27” iMac’s which have a RAM access door. Here the system needs a complete teardown lifting the logic board fully out to gain access to the four SO-DIMM slots. Unless you’ve done a bit of work on the newer 2013 ‘Thin Series’ onwards iMac’s so you are comfortable in taking the display off and have taken out the logic boards I would recommend you fid someone who has as this is an expensive system to get repaired if you make any errors.
***OK I’m going for it!***
First you need special ***PC4-21300 32 GB ECC Registered RAM*** [product|IF382-003-3]
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Follow this guide to take the display off [guide|30518] the cable connections are slightly different than what this guide shows
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Follow this guide to take the display off [guide|30518] the cable connections are slightly different than what this guide shows. Here’s a better image of the connections.
[image|2513670]
Review this [guide|101807] for guidance as the steps of removing the logic board as that’s all there is. Step 7 is as far as you need to get to.
We don’t have a guide to upgrade the RAM for this system. Apple made the design much harder than the regular 27” iMac’s which have a RAM access door. Here the system needs a complete teardown lifting the logic board fully out to gain access to the four SO-DIMM slots. Unless you’ve done a bit of work on the newer 2013 ‘Thin Series’ onwards iMac’s so you are comfortable in taking the display off and have taken out the logic boards I would recommend you fid someone who has as this is an expensive system to get repaired if you make any errors.
***OK I’m going for it!***
First you need special ***PC4-21300 32 GB ECC Registered RAM*** [product|IF382-003-3]
Follow this guide to take the display off [guide|30518] the cable connections are slightly different than what this guide shows
[image|2513670]
Review this [guide|101807] for guidance as the steps of removing the logic board as that’s all there is. Step 7 is as far as you need to get to.