I have a 21.5inch, Late 2009 iMac
Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz
4GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9400, 256MB GPU
I've been searching the forums, and I'm a bit confused as to what upgrades are possible.
I've been told that my iMac can take a Xeon processor, but I can't find anything definitive about that on the forum. What's the best Xeon that would be possible without flashing the bios, without overloading the power supply, or overheating the system? Basically I'm looking for a plug-n-play option.
I've heard conflicting info on whether this Mac can take 8 or 16GB of RAM. How much can it take, and what's the highest clock speed accepted?
The hard drive in it runs obnoxiously slow and is throwing SMART errors, as I found out when trying to update it to Sonoma. I would like to put an SSD in. Are there any recommendations for which SSDs would be compatible? This would only be a secondary computer, and doesn't need much storage. A 256GB or 512GB would be fine.
Also, the ethernet port is borked. It doesn't recognize when I connect a cable. I've done sound troubleshooting... with multiple cables, and connecting to known good devices. I've tried an external USB ethernet port, and the system didn't recognize the device (The device might have been too new, as I was on Yosemite at the time). Any ideas for how to fix it?
Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz
4GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9400, 256MB GPU
I've been searching the forums, and I'm a bit confused as to what upgrades are possible.
I've been told that my iMac can take a Xeon processor, but I can't find anything definitive about that on the forum. What's the best Xeon that would be possible without flashing the bios, without overloading the power supply, or overheating the system? Basically I'm looking for a plug-n-play option.
I've heard conflicting info on whether this Mac can take 8 or 16GB of RAM. How much can it take, and what's the highest clock speed accepted?
The hard drive in it runs obnoxiously slow and is throwing SMART errors, as I found out when trying to update it to Sonoma. I would like to put an SSD in. Are there any recommendations for which SSDs would be compatible? This would only be a secondary computer, and doesn't need much storage. A 256GB or 512GB would be fine.
Also, the ethernet port is borked. It doesn't recognize when I connect a cable. I've done sound troubleshooting... with multiple cables, and connecting to known good devices. I've tried an external USB ethernet port, and the system didn't recognize the device (The device might have been too new, as I was on Yosemite at the time). Any ideas for how to fix it?