RAM upgrade for imac g5?

[lewisweekly]

Hello, I just got my hands on an old iMac g5 via Ebay. The mac has all your standard specs: 1GB RAM, Intel Core 2 duo etc... But the hard drive has been re-formatted and is now running windows 8. My question is, how much RAM is this device upgradable to? I understand with the older mac OS's you could upgrade to a maximum of 2GB, and a maximum of 3GB with the newer OS's. But what about Windows 8, would it be possible to upgrade to say 4 or even 6GB or would the iMac simply not recognise that amount?

Thank you

regards, Lewis W

 

[yjchua95]

Hello, I just got my hands on an old iMac g5 via Ebay. The mac has all your standard specs: 1GB RAM, Intel Core 2 duo etc... But the hard drive has been re-formatted and is now running windows 8. My question is, how much RAM is this device upgradable to? I understand with the older mac OS's you could upgrade to a maximum of 2GB, and a maximum of 3GB with the newer OS's. But what about Windows 8, would it be possible to upgrade to say 4 or even 6GB or would the iMac simply not recognise that amount?

Thank you

regards, Lewis W

It's not an iMac G5. Rather, it's an Intel iMac. The G5 iMac's PowerPC, not Intel.

I think your Mac's a 17", 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) T2400 Yonah.
Max RAM: 2GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon X1600 128MB
Max OS X version: 10.6.8

You can only put in 2GB of RAM, maximum.

 

[lewisweekly]

The mac is running at 2.0 ghz and im not 100% of the graphics card, i believe it to be a late 2006 model. I thought the RAM upgrade amounts varied on mac OS X version?

 

[Nyy8]

The mac is running at 2.0 ghz and im not 100% of the graphics card, i believe it to be a late 2006 model. I thought the RAM upgrade amounts varied on mac OS X version?

Maximum RAM amounts are limited by system hardware, not by mac OS X version.

 

[lewisweekly]

Maximum RAM amounts are limited by system hardware, not by mac OS X version.

Shame, 2GB upgrade it is then!