On 27 Mar 2014, at 15:12 , steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
> on 2014-03-26 21:41 LuKreme wrote >> On 25 Mar 2014, at 15:55 , Charles Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 25 Mar 2014, at 08:02 , Jean-Christophe Helary >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I just bought a number of 1333mhz 8gb >>> >>> There’s your problem right there. IIRC the 27” late 2009 iMac had four DIMM >>> slots, each of which was officially rated at taking 4 GB sticks. >>> Unofficially _most_ 8 GB sticks would work, but some won’t. >> >> I don’t think the late 2009 iMac supports 8GB DIMMs at all. 4 slots and a >> maximum of 16GB according to MacTracker. > > according to everymac.com, the i5/i7 late 2009 versions can "unofficially" > handle 32GB, while the Core 2 Duo versions cannot I didn’t realize there were two different chipsets for the late 2009. I must have looked at the core 2 duo. -- People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
