Mid 2007 iMac CPU Upgrade & Tiger Thru Mojave OS Demo
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Today we upgrade a Mid 2007 20” iMac’s CPU to a T9500 and play with EVERY Intel macOS from Tiger to Mojave on it! This should was fun :D
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Dude you gave me hope! Got the exact same iMac here gonna try this out! Thanks a bunch!
Right on man I’m about to do this to mine. It’s purely for the fun of tinkering because my pc is a beast. I just have an old one of these lying around that I put a ssd in a few years back. It was a fun project and made a huge difference in performance so now I’m going to go the full nine yards and upgrade to the max like you. Awesome video!!
Got Ventura running on my early 2009 iMac. I love how useable old macs still are
I totally agree
Sweet stuff! Thanks for the info. I'm about to do the T9500 CPU on my 24" Mid 2007 iMac with OWC 6GB Ram and 1TB SSD kit. Excited that this is even possible.
You should definitely catch my most recent video on this one. Then I ran all the way up to Monterey on it and now you can run Ventura. I just haven’t done it yet.
@@HrutkayModsCan't wait to see it.
That is one hell of range of operating systems for one device to be able to use! ive got 2 of those old imacs sitting aroung, but i dont use them..they have capitan on them..i never knew they could be pushed to mohave...the imac i use is a late 2011 i3 with 8gb and high sierra and ssd...its super fast and doent run hot...i love this thing and use it daily...great stuff greg!
Thanks... looks like Catalina will be on it soon too lol
Genius! I will try it.
Yeah, it’s still one of my all-time favorite projects. It’s up to 14 operating systems now that it can run.
nice, good stream sir !
I will watch it later.. ;)
always nice to see tiger running on an intel mac ;)
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By the way.. with the help of your video, I installed a T9500 in my iMac 2007 24" and works perfectly well ! OS Catalina / dosdude patch.🙂
@@claudiom.5167glad to hear it :)
9:40 Holy cow!
cant wait to upgrade my 7,1 with the t9500 and put mojave on it great vid tkz
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Good intro, right to the point
Yeah I knew it was going to be a long video lol
Tiger was great on PowerPC. The problem was that it didn't really support Intel Macs. Snow Leopard was when the Intel Macs really started to shine.
Agreed
Hi Hrutkay, I was wondering if you tried using Catalina on this iMac or if you recommend using another macOS. Thanks for making this video!
Yep been running Catalina since beta 1 on it but I’d recommend Mojave
Good job. I watched another guy who went through all of this to upgrade his CPU and he didnt bother to repaste his GPU. I thought that was silly af!
Im doing this with mine just for the repaste and to get the dust out! Mine has so much dust in it that this should help more then any processor could lol
Parabéns, excelente explicação!
I’ve been doing this as well! These iMacs are still pretty viable! - I’ve a question - how does it run on Mojave re graphics- do you get horrible artefacts & video glitches? Colin says that Mojave is awful without hardware graphics acceleration which I don’t think is supported on these graphic cards- so I’ve never bothered & stuck with high Sierra & ssds.. they actual fly!
Dude the patcher has supported these models since day one it runs beautifully
hey I just got one for free, can I upgrade the gpu? and which one should I get??
wow nice one , the way you upgrade I like it.
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Hey there! Hope you’re still replying.
Do you have perhaps a link to the BCM4321 patchers for Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave?
High Sierra and Mojave patchers from Dosdude had it included. You can patch Sierra with the high Sierra patcher. That’s how I fixed mine.
@@HrutkayMods Thanks
I have the same 2007 imac i want to upgrade the cpu to install mojave on it but do i need to update the graphics card as well by the way id like to get windows installed on my el captain would like to see a updated version vid i know u did one on older macs thanks bud keep up the good work my friend thumbs up
I think you can upgrade the video card to the Radeon HD 2600 Pro GDDR3 256 MB and install MAC OS X Catalina with 6Gb DDR2 667Mhz.
Thank you for your detailed video.
I know you mentioned that your iMac is a 20 inch model but would the T9500 CPU chip work with the following 24 inch iMac (Mid-2007) that currently has a T7700 processor?
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
6 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB
iMac7,1
It is currently stuck with El Capitan and I am trying to upgrade it to Mojave as you did.
Can you offer a hyperlink to where to purchase the T9500 CPU chip from?
This is a great video bro! Thxs!
Thanks bud the second video to this system was filmed yesterday look for it tomorrow
I've always wanted to try this
I remember doing the same thing with my iMac7,1 in March of 2017, except it didn't have macOS Sierra, because I didn't replace the CPU.
I wonder if these machines will support Core 2 Quad CPUs, such as QX9300, QX9100 or Q9000, which are the only mobile Core 2 Quads.
no sadly they cant
I have one and I want to upgrade too, which system ran better? I'm thinking about using Monterey, is it recommended?
High Sierra is the last one that runs 100% natively on the whole hardware after the patch… Mojave is the last 32 bit app supported. And Big Sir is the last one that supports IDE. So anything past that you lose the optical drive. It’s really up to what you want to run if you want one of the more recent latest and greatest I still find Ventura really stable. And you can always use a USB drive if you need the optical drive.
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You should do the same thing but with a x9100 on a early 2009 model. Same thing for GPU m6100. Would love to see that.
Wow I didn't know you could upgrade like this. My iMac boot chime and has black screen. I'm going to try to fix with replacement power supply. But if that fails I think the logic board. I like to now upgrade the cpu while I'll have it all disassemble.
So the t9500 is a more preferred because they will allow Sierra, Correct? Compared to a x7900 which is similar in speed. I just received my x7900 and am thinking if I purchased the wrong one. Does Sierra run faster than El Capitan? Also my headphone jack doesn't work are you familiar with this problem?
Did the upgraded CPU allow this iMac to have AirPlay or be able to be used as external monitor via Target Display Mode? Or would the mini-DVI port still be limited to output only, no input from external device?
Great Video brother...
Thank you bro
That mac has a 800mhz bus i think.... Same as the next model.
Im doubtful we can run the 1066 cpu's but i wish i knew!!
There is even a chance that the core2duoQUAD chips might work. Fucj that would be sweeeeet.
Hey Greg...your channel rocks!
Would this work with a T9600? I just got the world's slowest Dell laptop with that cpu and wouldn't mind sacrificing it lol
nope, CPU bus speed is too fast... just the T9300 and T9500 work
Great video. Do you have the download link for the x86 version of TenFourFox used on Mac OS 10.4?
Would you be willing to sell a USB drive with all the multi Mac OS loaded on it?
that would be a huge slow and unreliable project... plus newer OSes don't like installing on external drives
Where did you find the dd2 2 ram? I had a hard time finding them online since they are so old
eBay is your friend in this case
@@HrutkayMods OWC still has a 6 gb kit in stocks for the 7,1 that is a better deal than ebay ram of unknown provenance.
Hi, great video. I did the same but with T9300, but the system does not show me the correct CPU, it shows 400MHz Core 2 Duo instead of 800MHz that have T9300 chipset, the only point that shows correctly are the 6Mb of cache .. do you have any idea what can happen? On the other hand upgrade the RAM to 6Gb, you do it with two 4+2 modules right? thanks man!
it's just a lack of microcode support and yes about the ram
Hello! I have this iMac. I already did a CPU upgrade to a T9500, but I don't know how to install a different OS and I am stuck with 10.5 OS Leopard. How can I install, let's say, El capitan? Do you have any videos on it? Thank you for your time
yes, lots of videos on it... if you can upgrade to lion now that it's abandonware and then it'll let you install el cap... or you can put the installer on a flash drive and boot into that then upgrade over the existing install
I’m gonna order the parts this week. It’s been a year since this video, should I get different parts?
nah these parts are still working well today in 2023
Hello, Great video. I have 24"iMac 7,1 A1225 (ECM2134) - I think I will try this for my project thank you Great video.
I also have several Power PC G5 - I was wondering if you could give me some tips on re-Purposing these cheese grater towers. thanks in advanced
i have a 2007 Macbook core2 duo 2,1 running Lion. Of course you know I'm stuck on lion and would like to upgrade to Mountain Lion because Lion sucks. Can you help me?
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GREAT VIDEO!!!! I have the iMac 20" early 2008. which intel core 2 duo cpu you recommend? You mentioned you can use a 1066 mhz cpu. Thanks
The E8435 was the fastest and came in the 24"... That should work... The T9900 is essentially the same CPU too this one is just cheaper
Is a t9500 a good option???
hey man great video you give pples hope
have same imac 7.1 mid 2007 with 2,4 core 2 duo cpu
can you give the exact cpu you upgrades i find all crazy name for the t9500 core 2 duo cpu can you please tell me witch is the best cpu for this mac and the exact name please cheers
I have an imac like that, but I have not made any change, I only changed the ram memory to 4.
Can I install MOJAVE on this computer? (iMac (20-inch, Mid 2007) processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
please help me with this as i want to install it
Can u tell me how I can get this imac to support modern day websites like Netflix. When I try to play a movie, it just says unsupported. What am I missing? Why are application icons not updated looking . I'm totally at loss what I need to do to it.
Hi, thanks for the video, I have an Apple iMac 27-Inch "Core i5" 2.8 (Mid-2010) with Windows 7 installed, no other OS. I would like to upgrade it to the max possible and using the Imac OS and if there is a video about it.
yeah I've done a few GPU upgrade videos on these... If you upgrade to a metal card it'll run the latest and greatest... or you can use Opencore and patch the old graphics (you still need it to boot anyway). native metal is better than the opencl patch though
@@HrutkayMods Hi, thanks for the response, since then, I have done something wild.
I replace HHD for SSD plus maxed the ram, 16MB total and installed Windows 11. Works like a charm and very fast boot up.
Must be one killer PC at least lol
@@HrutkayMods No, I think, Microsoft tried to give false information to the public to push the new PC's to be beefier so it could run Win11.
When in fact, my old iMac 27 by just taking the HHD out and putting an SSD and full memory would do the trick. Hey, weird people like me has to try stuff to see how far can we push the PC boundary. All good.
I totally agree, but they also did it for future CPU security reasons at least that’s what they say… the chances of being hit by a CPU exploit is pretty slim I believe
i have an imac 9.1 mid 2009 intel core 2 duo 2ghz, can you upgrade the cpu on these, and if so what cpus will work? thankyou
Yes, you should be able to, I’m not really sure which ones fit I believe the top one is the 9900
this guy surely loves apple..
Yup
33:50 High Sierra being the last macOS version to support Nvidia web drivers. Apple seems to be targeting the users of Xserves, unibody iMacs, and cheesegrater Mac Pros with upgraded Nvidia graphics cards. But in iMacs, GTX 7xxM cards would work because they were used in the late 2013 and 2014 iMacs and dGPU models of the Retina Macbook Pros from that time period. I mean, if someone is to buy a GPU with support for macOS 10.14 or later, might as well buy an AMD GPU but if you already have a non-GTX 7xxM card that is from Nvidia and you don't want to buy a new card and want/need to run Mojave or later, you're pretty much screwed unless Apple lets Nvidia release drivers for Mojave and later. They haven't in pretty much a year, so I won't be surprised if it never happens.
really wana try get a singe stick of 4gb to get 6gb maybe try 8gb and then get a t9500 because a x9100 isnt compatible
Ela moro no Brazil , você tem placa de video de iMac 2009 27 , 10,1 para vende ?
how you doing this?
How can you have all operating systems in a hard drive?
Just partition it a lot. GPT supports up to 128
Hey do u know what the red led under the first hd bay on the 2008 mac pro means ? The mac just keep resetting after 10 to 5 mins
multiple error lights in that area... possibly a RAM issue it sounds like?
have you changed the graphic card too?
Really can’t on these systems. MXM2 wasn’t around very long
Thanks for this tutorial, Greg. Just found a 24" model on a building recycling shelf. Not working. No display image - just beeps every 6 seconds. If I can get it up and running I'll do your suggested mods. Cool machine.
I'd check the ram hope you got it going!
Is there any way to do something similar with a late 2006 20-inch model?
dunno if T7600 is the only option.
Socket and bus speed restrictions so no sadly
by the way.. great tutorial.
I have this as a daily driver now😂. But it runs mint perfectly with 4 gigs and a laptop hard drive 😂. Do you think the t9500 upgrade is worth it? I could buy a newer one for the price they are asking for the chip alone lol. Owc want $70 for a 4gig ram stick to max it out! Do you know if this is the model that you can upgrade the video card on or how I could figure it out online mine has radeon2600 XT/2700 according to system info in mint. I was thinking if I can upgrade the memory of the CPU and the hard drive all at once it could be a cool computer to also install Catalina on or is this just too old to deal with?
If you were using this imac in 2024, what os would you use as a daily? Would it be a mac? Linux? Just curious if im using the best possible setup myself and i respect your opinion way more than my own 😂
A kewl follow up video would be for you to show each os, And explain the best browsers, and what software is available and good to have on each one. I know when i was on snow leopard the other day I thought it was kewl but I didn’t know what to do with it beyond interweb. Just a thought..live the channel!
I sort of did in this video lol I am actually doing a follow up and I did a follow up in the beginning of 2022… this system officially supported seven operating systems and unofficially supports seven now so there’s been 14 operating systems I think it would be a great time to follow up on it. Also if I use this thing as a daily driver, I would still probably be running something like Mojave on it… I actually did use it as a daily driver until it got too unstable with so many operating systems on it. With Max ram and an SSD. I wouldn’t hesitate to run Sonoma on it just to use it as a daily web browser and stuff like that… it would also make a great windows 10 machine. But if I wanted it to be really fast and snappy with a hard drive and stuff I would probably put some type of Linux on it.
@@HrutkayMods thanks. I never tried windows on it because ive never been a windows fan. But if I was to try it, are there any special steps I have to take or do I just put in the USB installer and run it like I would any other system? Would it use mbr in rufus to make it? Thanks man you are the best!
@95Comics yeah, Macs of this generation are very picky… they only want to install windows via CD and you can only do it with MBR… there’s a way to do it GPT maybe with open core but I’ve never tried it. if you do it factory with GPT and actually installs you’ll get so many driver conflicts it won’t work it’s really weird changing the partition type screws up the hardware drivers That wasn’t really fixed until about 2012 models… when I install windows on older models, I usually use my 32bit EFI custom images even though this is a 64 bit EFI it literally uses the same copy of windows, so it fixes all the boot issues and stuff
guys hi tell me how to install mac os mojave on imac 8.1 20" 2008. how to create a flash drive from under the system mac os x lion 10.7.5 Tried everything and not how it does not work.. Patcher throws an error. Video cool! especially liked the disk with downloads of different mac os )) I want to do the same for myself, tell me how?
can you please tell me where i can buy the memory ram? i'm in mexico and its really hard to find all that hardware here...
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All we need now is a better graphics card?! Halp ussss
I cant find one that will actually fit :
How can I upgrade my iMac 2007 ? What do I need too do
CPU RAM SSD lots of options
Cpu string is wrong
The micro code never existed on the system. That’s why. It really shouldn’t even work technically but it just does
Nice
If upgrade the CPU, can u boost the ram from 4GB maximum tu 6GB? I really don’t know that, I though 4GB It’s it maximum capacity, someone tell me if I’m right.
it could always run 6GB actually
Does Mojave run well on this iMac? What kind of issues did you find?
Runs totally fine just max out the ram to 6gb and it’ll fly
Do you have use Mac Pro desktop pc
do I have used ones? a few yeah
can you upgrade the. CPU to i5 ? Or not
Too old, Core 2 Duo is max
Is the 6GB RAM upgrade necessary if I already have 4GB?
No but it does give the computer a bit more room to breathe
I thought 4gb was the most the machine could reconize?...
You don't need APFS for MacOS Mojave!
for update support you do yes
@@HrutkayMods That's only for Catalina isn't it? Else use OCLP with native model and APFS trim
Pretty sure Mojave was the first… Collin always said to use APFS because of this issue
@@HrutkayMods ok... anyways OCLP offers seemless APFS boot on unsupported devices
Yeah, that’s different… and I think it actually uses a lot of coding that Collin came up with it but I don’t know… i’m just talking about software updates in general. They just refuse to install on HFS in the operating system for some reason. 🤷🏻♂️
I have the exact same model ill send it to u for the same fix!!!!
Or you can just follow the video it’s pretty easy to do lol
Hi friend, really how much ram memory do you recognize?
how many modules 1x4 and 1x2
hold 8 ram memory?
6GB chipset doesn’t support anymore
Hi, I’m not sure if it’s the same question with Ronald Iratchet, but as you said in the vid, you installed 6GbB of ram, so can I still do that with 4GB and 2GB modules? Thanks.
Guess I’m paying someone to do all this for me
It’s honestly not all that bad it just looks complicated as long as you take your time you can probably do it yourself
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I love lion since it dosent friken WORK! you can probably tell I hate lion
Hi, I have the same iMac, can u plz upgrade 4 me. I'm ready to pay $100 and I will buy all what u need 4 upgrading ... Tnx a lot