130€ Catalina iMac mid-2010 - 512 G SSD, RAM and CPU upgrades
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- 130€ Catalina iMac mid-2010 - 512 G SSD, RAM and CPU upgrades
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All of this applies only to the mid-2010 21,5 11.2 iMac. This iMac model with AMD Radeon HD4670 works well with Catalina. Ones with HD5XXX or HD6XXX do not. Check other Mac models' compatibility in catalina patcher website, link below.
dosdude1's Catalina Patcher:
dosdude1.com/ca...
dosdude1's tutorial:
• How to Install macOS 1...
CPU upgraded to i5-650 from i3-540: 10€, local second-hand (more expensive on Ebay and Aliexpress)
RAM: 10€, local second-hand (it has 4 slots, you can just buy 2x 2gb sticks in addition to the stock 2x 2gb)
SSD (Fujitsu F500S 512 GB) if you are going to have anything important on the iMac, i recommend locally buying new reputable brand SSD, not anything from Aliexpress (they can be cheap and unreliable despite having some known brand on them) : www.aliexpress...
Hi, I note from your description that you said you installed I5? The video show x3440 Xeon?
Also how much ram did you finally install? As apparently 32gb can be installed
Thanks
I tried the Xeon first, didn't work, so i installed the i5. I don't remember about the RAM.
Hi ! Very nice and still up to date ! Just done with a S7100x firepro . Do you know is there is a way to get the apple logo startup back ?
I haven't yet tried to install non-mac GPU's but i think to have the boot screen you have to have a specifically mac-flashed BIOS on the card. I've been thinking trying Opencore bootloader on a real mac (to get some sort of a bootscreen on non-mac GPU) if i will at some point try upgrading a mac GPU. Not sure how well that would work though.
Well interesting, I thought you needed a Metal compatible card to have a good experience running Catalina on a unsupported iMac?
Well, some older cards work okay while some not. Radeon 4000 Cards work okay, 5 and 6 series don't. I'm writing this on a 2007 imac with HD 2600 Pro 256 Mb card which i use daily, i also have a video on that.
the motherboard of my iMac mid 2010 Intel core i3 is damaged if I replace it with an imac mid 2010 i7 motherboard would it work or not? please help me because I'm desperate thank you very much
Are both of those 27-inch imacs or 21,5? I think only the 27-inch supports i7.
Hi! Great video! Hard drive question: Can I install Samsung ssd instead of Fujitsu?
Yes, you can, in fact i would recommend that
The name brand of the hard drive doesn’t really matter they are all made in pretty much the same country
I used an i5-660 and it worked slower than i3. On Geekbench I had SC 226 and MC 519, what did I do wrong?
Yeah that doesn't sound right, i got more than double that with i5-650. Which OS version are you running?
@@optimallyobscureperformanc6264 High Sierra.
@@panchitom I googled a bit, it looks like many people having weird slowdown issues after upgrading 21,5 2010 iMac CPU. Some are saying that you need to only use CPU's which that iMac could be bought with as new. Though my i5-650 (like your 660) was never an option for this model and still performing flawlessly. Also some people having slowdown issues even with i5-680 which was an option for this iMac officially (Intel has sometimes slight differences in the original Apple CPUs despite them being the same name as PC i think, so it sometimes may not recognize that as a supported CPU if it is from PC). Common thing with all the CPU slowdown issues seems to be that all are running High Sierra, i am running Catalina patched with dosdude's patcher. I understand the CPU support with iMacs largely depends on the OS, so installing Catalina would be my best guess if you're comfortable with doing that (though no guarantees it will fix the issue).
I upgraded my 2010 imac too, cpu, video and ram, I put 32gb from owc. my imac is always on and I just turn off the screen, after I upgraded the ram it always crashes after about 2 days on when I leave 16 gigs of ram the problem stops happening !!! Does anyone know what can it be ???
Weird. All i can think of is maybe one RAM stick is faulty somehow? Have you tried first with 16 gigs, and then taking them out and swapping for another 16 gigs?
@@optimallyobscureperformanc6264 i tried
@@felipehatem9029 Just out of interest, which macos version are you running on it?
@@optimallyobscureperformanc6264 iMac 27 mid 2010
I had ssd mounted on it, but is it true that it also supports an i7 870s?
I could not get any quad-core to work with it, but apparently people on some forums have.
@@optimallyobscureperformanc6264 Can confirm that 860S and 870S do work in this model (I have one). I recommend staying away from the Xeons as they're a mess with these iMacs. You are severely limited by your non-metal graphics card though, which I STRONGLY recommend you upgrade. Cheapest option is a k610m.
@@mal4951 Very interesting info, thanks. Will keep in mind when i get back to iMac stuff.
@@mal4951 i tried replacing i7 860S to my mac (same model), but the machine can not boot. Black screen, with only fun running quietly. Any idea or suggestion?
That,s an imac a1311 emc 2389 ?? With a xeon x3440 ?
No, the Xeon didn't work for me. I had to swap it for a dual-core i5.
why/how did you upgrade to i5 if you got intel xeon x3440?
That Xeon did not work in this iMac, it did not boot with it.
Doesn’t the i7-860S Processor work with that Imac?
Well, according to everymac there wasn't a mac model with that but there was with i7-860: everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i7-2.8-27-inch-aluminum-late-2009-specs.html
When i researched about that earlier i thought only 2-core CPUs would work with 21,5 mid-2010 but apparently this guy successfully installed that i7-860S CPU: czcams.com/video/zw2hae-P6bc/video.html
Do you have a full
Video with orginal speed without timelapse so you can send me to email?
es posible instalar un core i7 ???
I think it's not with the 21,5inch 2010 model
Should i use a external ssd
I haven't tried it, don't know if it works (as a boot drive), if it works it is probably slower through usb externally compared to SATA internal SSD.
Hello, I have iMac mid 2011. I installed Catalina onto it and had adobe apps running. My iMac was crippled and unusable! I have tried resolving this by removing all instances of adobe apps all over my mac. I have installed a 1tb crucial SSD and 2x 8gb ram (total mac 20gb RAM). I have done all processes that I find online. But none are describing an old mac using catalina. Please can you help me with making my iMac fast again. Whilst using Catalina as I wish to stream on Twitch. Or even play a game that does not lag... If I upgraded the CPU would this AUTOMATICALLY resolve the speed issue? Because I was under the impression that swapping to SSD and improving RAM would do the trick... but when i open Finder... I see lagging, this should not happen. Please help me find a cure for my poor MID 2011 IMAC running CATALINA. Thank You!
So that imac worked well before installing Adobe apps? Interesting.
Can I upgrade graphics card?
I understand it's possible, but it needs to be specific model and mac bios flashed. I haven't yet done that myself.