How To: Apple Mac Pro RAM Upgrade!  #Helpful Post

extra memory check opened up 2013 Mac

Pro that sounds like Darth Vader check

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johnathan here TLD thank you guys very

much for the awesome feedback on my late

2013 Mac Pro unboxing if you guys did

happen to miss that I'll have it linked

right below that thumbs up button and

also annotate it right here just in case

you have those turned on so first and

foremost the late 2013 Mac Pro has four

upgradable memory slots which maxes out

at 64 gigabytes and uses 1866 megahertz

ddr3 ECC memory modules Before we jump

into the actual upgrade process I want

to take a look at the actual

configuration options from Apple just to

give you guys a look at some of your

options the baseline quad-core model

comes stock with 12 gigabytes of RAM you

can bump that up for an extra hundred to

fill in that extra slot at 16 gigabytes

you can jump up to 32 for an extra 500

and you can max that sucker out with 64

for an extra 1,300 George Washington's

now jumping over to these six core model

this is going to come stock with 16 gigs

of ram so four four four and four it's

going to max out your slots you can bump

that up to 32 for an extra 400 or you

can max it out at 64 for an extra $1200

now if you're going to a third party you

want to upgrade yourself and save a

little bit of money the going rate right

now is about 440 to 414 gigabyte sticks

is for $39.99 and then jump it over to

Mac multi carry Axium memory so again -

16 gigabyte sticks for 449 and actually

pick these ones up simply because they

had them at my local Mac moment where I

was able to find the Mac Pro in stock

now o WC is also another brand that I've

always had a good experience with but if

you look here for 32 gigs you're looking

at for 8 gigabyte stick so this is

actually going to max out every slot in

your Mac Pro as opposed to if you went

with crucial or axiom those two are

going to lead to open slots and the

ability to upgrade down the road if you

desire this also brings me to another

point when you are configuring your Mac

Pro let's say you're going up to 32 gigs

you say it's 400 bucks not really saving

that much money going third-party same

thing with the quad-core model 32 gig is

going to cost you an extra 500 so maybe

you're only saving 50 bucks if you go

third-party but again just like the o WC

modules these are for 8 so you're

filling out every single slot as opposed

to the crucial or the axiom

you're going to leave two slots open and

the ability to upgrade down the road if

you want to now price and of course it

does fluctuate it goes up it goes down

and actually the same crucial care for

439 I actually found on Amazon for 391

51 at the time of this video so if you

went ahead and bought two of these kits

you're looking at 64 gigabytes for under

800 bucks as opposed to the 1200 on the

six core or 1300 on the quad core model

and of course for the cheapest and most

up-to-date pricing make sure you guys

check out the links I have posted below

so the first thing we're going to do is

make sure the Mac Pro is powered down

and then unplugged will then go ahead

and make sure the lock on the back is

slid to the unlock state and from there

we can go to begin to take the casing

off of the Mac Pro to annabelle the

insides now on the left and the right of

the ins and the outs you can see we have

four memory slots two on each side

and on top there's going to be a little

button right here that we're going to go

and kind of push open that's going to

release the RAM modules

 

now once we have both sides open we're

actually gonna remove every single

module that is currently in there

 

we actually note on crutial website it

says installation of 16 gigabyte modules

requires all previous lower-density

modules to be removed you cannot mix

registered and unbuffered memory in the

same system now me of course because

that is what i do i tried it anyways

this is actually what happens if you mix

the modules so as you can see that as

sadface jpg and the mac pro is kind of

screaming at you do not mix the RAM

modules take them out of me now I know I

kind of skipped ahead but I just wanted

to forewarn you just in case anybody

want to try that jumping back into the

actual installation part now that we

have everything empty I'm actually going

to use only the first two slots since I

have two 16 gigabyte sticks so I found

that it's easiest to install the one

closest to the inside first so we're

going to pop that in there don't be

afraid to give it a little force we're

going to look for a little click just to

make sure we know it's in there

 

once the second stick is in there we can

go and lock everything up now if you had

extra sticks and you were going to max

out the Mac Pro obviously would repeat

the same process on the other side but

for me I only have two slots to fill in

so I'm going to go to lock up the empty

three and four slots on the right and

from there we can go ahead and close up

the Mac Pro plug everything in and power

it on now from there we're pretty much

done and ready to go all we have to do

now once the Mac Pro is powered on is

head up to the top left hand corner to

the Apple logo click about this Mac and

you should be able to see the correct

amount of memory now installed into your

Mac Pro you can head over to the more

info tab and from there we can go to the

memory section you can see in this case

we have 16 16 and slots of 1 & 2 and I

have slots 3 & 4 empty and open for

future upgrades down the road so that

about wraps it up thank you guys very

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