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My late 2015 27 inch iMac has two 4gb cards in slots 1 and 3 I want to add two 8gb cards. Do I put these in slots 2 and 4 or do I need to change the order?


iMac 27″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Nov 10, 2021 9:43 AM

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Posted on Nov 10, 2021 9:47 AM

It really matters little which slots you use when adding memory.

But here's Apple's guidance:

Install memory in an iMac - Apple Support


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Nov 10, 2021 10:32 AM in response to Daddias

To make it simple, when you add the new DIMMs please install them in the empty slots. iMacs prefer having RAM installed in matched pairs. As the existing 4GB DIMMs are already installed as matched pairs then you would populate the empty slots with matched pairs too.


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