2014 Mac Mini RAM and CPU Upgrade
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2022
- In this video, I perform both a CPU and RAM upgrade on this Late-2014 Mac Mini. This particular model was originally a base model, with a 1.4 GHz Core i5 CPU and 4GB of RAM. I upgraded the machine to 16GB of RAM, along with a 3 GHz Core i7 CPU, making it a MUCH better machine.
2014 Mac Mini RAM Upgrade MacRumors Thread: forums.macrumors.com/threads/... 
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Unbelievable cool video. Thank you for all you've done for the community of old Mac users, your patches have helped me keep so many of my machines useful!
Thank you for the video. Fun to watch. I ordered a preheater, flux and 4 ram IC's from Ali expres, gonna give it a go once everything has arrived.
YES! It's a win. Thank you so much
Wow, just wonderful I've never seen anyone do this before, this man is very talented
In 1986 I cut out the 64k of memory from my first Mac and soldered in 128k with guidance from Dr. Dobbs Journal. Thought that was pretty cool but my oh my how times change! Brilliant work, sir, kudos to you!
No Mac shipped with 64k of memory.
@@kirishima638Maybe it was an Apple
@@kirishima638 kilobites of memory
You NEVER fail to amaze me with your skills!
It's amazing they sold this machine up until the end of 2018. We still have some of them in our labs. and we specced them pretty well at the time, they had the 2.6ghz i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. They run terribly today on Monterey, and it's officially supported! Yet we have 2012 i5 iMacs with after-market SSDs added and they run like a dream on Monterey using OCLP.
Because it's a low tdp laptop dual core vs a socketed quad core with 65w to 80w wattage.
They may possibly run a little better if you wiped and clean installed all of them with Monterey.
I am writing this from a Mac Mini 2014, 2.6ghz i5, 512GB SSD and 8GB Ram... and I am not agree with your statement "they run terribly today on Monterey". As a matter of fact, it runs smooth. I do Photoshop and Lightroom, Internet, Excel with no problem at all.
@@asphixmx mine too... its only a 4g RAM and even with HDD.. still working very well...
I have the 2012.. it has a quad core I7 and 16gb of ram.. the 2014 was a step back I didn’t know what Apple was thinking.
Amazing project. It's incredible what we can do with older tech nowadays.
I've watched this in absolute awe. This is a great work of art I'll never be able to perform.
Well done, mate!
Keep it up! I'll just save money for my new Mac Mini M2 by the end of the year.
There's no way I'll find someone as competent as you to do such a thing and still make it affordable.
Dude, you are amazing...I have been following yours videos since you started making the patches for old mac...
So happy to see you gave the CPU bigger balls.
dosdude, you are one epic person. That was a lot of work for such minimal gains and something tells me that wasn't why you upgraded.
Great job on the hardware upgrades and restoration. I'm sure the switch to an ssd will make overall everyday tasks faster and quieter and cooler operation
That was amazing principally the reballing step, congrats!
well, this is definitely an upgrade that no else is going to do
Unbelievable, jaw-dropping stuff, I'm absolutely blown away. I take my hat off 🎩
I love to see so many fans of this great man. He deserve all the compliments.
Reballing that apu is the most difficult part because of the warping you mentioned, on the 10th gen intel had to glue a metal support bracket to the corners to avoid It
From a tinkerer perspective it's amazing what you did there, complete desoldering/reballing/resoldering plus programming of bios, I draw my hat and fully heartily applaud this work and dedication. From a non mac users perspective... why is there no slot for ram and a socket for cpu?
Yes I now, new ultrabooks are also guilty of soldered on cpu/ram/ssd, but up till 2013/2014 the larger notebooks still had replaceable cpu/ram and ssds. And desktops, we don't have to talk, they are fully upgradeable in most cases.
It forced you to buy the larger capacity models or ram upgrades at purchase at a significantly higher price, as you could never upgrade. I dare say it perhaps also made them more reliable being soldered ,but I’m not sure to what extent - if any. I was waiting for the 2014 to come out so I could upgrade for a much earlier model, and when it did and I saw the soldered ram and cpu, I immediately bought the just superseded quad core whose ram and storage you could upgrade - and having two more cores was a lot faster.
Yeah, good linux knowledge and non Apple hardware makes life easier. But i love my 2012 airbook which rocks Pop OS and honestly, for many years there were no comparable pc notebooks and still today build quality is impressive. So i understand the attraction of Apple devices.... And the M cpus are impressive again. Wait for mature linux support😉
Some of the older Macs had the ability to change ram and hdd but they where finicky with what ram would work it was nice though, I guess its now a bit of both upselling the higher models instead of user upgradeable plus smaller form factors making it harder to replace.
I can say regarding the CPU as to why they moved away from CPU's in both windows Laptops and MacBook's, One is that it results in an overall thinner devices and the other is from DDR3 based devices - the Signal integrity dependent (rise and fall time of high speed digital signals like DDR3 is very small order of few pico seconds - having a socket CPU adds metal socket pins adds more impedance discontinuities which in turn results in delays / corruption /slows down of these rise / fall times. with a soldered BGA CPU you minimize these impedance anomaly- this is wht they eliminated the socket cpu approach ).
@@sheldonkupa9120 what's an airbook?
Mate you are a wizard of computing
That Geekbench improvement doesn't seem exciting, but doing math it is almost a 50% better performance! That's a lot!! Great work 👏👏
Love your work mate! Total boss effort!
us Aussies love DosDude hey Trev :)
Looked forward to this one particularly.
Very impressed by dosdude1's skill and precision. This is way above my pay grade. Will say this: I've a 2012 Mac Mini, the last Mini where both RAM and drives were socketed (not soldered) and so upgrades there were plug and play. The CPU of my old Dell Latitude was not soldered either so upgrading that was also simple for this klutz. All of which is to lament that newer tech, with glued cases and soldered everything, requires dosdude1 level expertise to service.
Impressive work and excellent explanation.
That really will be breathing new life into that machine. I think the i7 from that generation was a proper hyperthreaded quad core even in the 13" Macbook Pro, though it may have still been the lower powered variant. Still, it should work wonderfully with the upgraded processor and memory. Always fun to watch people keep these older machines viable with electronic wizardry.
Edit: I was mistaken, the i7 u series from that generation was only a dual-core processor. How disappointing. Still, just getting a substantially faster clock speed will make a world of difference for that mac, as will the upgraded graphics. At least as far as general computing goes. Intel Iris was never a gaming powerhouse, but it's perfectly capable for general UI tasks and video playback.
Amazing how it’s done. Very skillful. Quite interesting.
Amazing job as always !
Wow, your video is very good! What you did is a work of art! Very nice!
Im waiting for this, thank genius dude 👏 🥇
Hell Yea! Great Work Sir. New to Apple due to the M1, after finding your tutorials I traded a pile of old PC Boneyard collection for some 2011 & 2012 minis; just to learn how apple did things. Thanks for the help!
Holy hell! I thought I was cool upgrading my 2012 mini with 16G of RAM and 256 SSD. This is hardcore. Well done! I love my mini! Have Big Sur on it and for daily home stuff it works great. At my work office I have the latest Apple gear. EDIT: Geekbench 704 / 1726 with the i7 / 2.6Ghz / 16G / SSD / 4000 Graphics.
Why haven’t you upgraded it to Monterey yet?
@@abduujabor well you’re not supposed to get Monterey for Mac mini (late 2012) since it’s not “compatible” (which is a stupid lie apple made up) for it.
But the thing is, you actually can get it! It’s just that you have to use open core legacy patcher (which is easy to use) and you need a 16+ USB flash drive to be able to use and get Monterey.
Here is the link to the video of it happening. It’s actually works and it’s legit. Link: ruclips.net/video/McmO7xP4wvI/видео.html
(Edit) I also recommend having 16 gb of ram (which is easy to change and it’s the most a Mac mini can take) to make the experience faster.
Wonderful. You are not an ordinary person, you are special.
Bro I love these kind of content
Awesome stuff as always!
AMAZING WORK, CONGRATS!
More great work thanks Collin. Any chance of showing us the board pre-heater that you use please? Thanks EDIT - I found the answer in one of the comments. Cheers. hot air station, Puhui T8280 preheater, Madell QK853 preheater, and Aoyue 4545W nozzle for doing the large BGAs.
you are my hero, great and patient work...
Wonderful experience! Thank you.
Amazing job. Is a dream your job. Congrats from Brazil
I still have one of the 2014 i7 Minis as a daily driver, but unfortunately only 8GB Ram, which starts to become a problem these days. Also, while it has a factory SSD, that one is very slow - slower than a budget sata SSD these days. Upgrading the SSD could help, soldering more ram myself is far out of my league, and getting someone else to do it would be expensive enough to rather save up for a used 16Gig M1 mini. Still, it's awesome to see that it can be done. Great video, dosdude1 !
Man I think u came from another planet.. 👍👍
fantastic video very detailed information - thanks Dosdude :-)
oh god! oh my god!!! this video is going so technical OMFG!
Phenomenal work!
Great job was done! Awesome.
Great video for someone like myself. I’m looking at purchasing a 2014 Mac Mini so now I know that, whilst the ball-ache of doing this process myself isn’t terribly difficult (merely mundane), it does require a set of unique tools and isn’t cost-effective unless scaling the operation.
Alternative, spend £20 extra for the 2.6GHz model regardless of RAM and upgrade the whole unit a year later to the 2018 model.
Thanks!!!
Going to need this video now. Knowing nothing about Mac mini's I bought a 2014 Mac mini, base model. Opps, soldered on RAM :) Going to fit this into a G4 "lampshade" iMac. "
i think the surface tension of the solder is strong enough to warp the hot chip when you take it off the board with the vacuum pump.try next time to flip it next on a paper towel with tweezers from the sides.i have removed cpus with tweezers aswell with 0.5mm metal blade tool.but overall you are a pro :D .keep up the good work
Amazing as always. Apple probably needs to hire you to do prototype manufacturing/testing and repair.
Great video sir!
Very interesting, but too difficult for a nebbie. You are a master technician. It have been super interesting for me to known the technologie for smd circuits reparing. Thanks.
I'm on a late 2014 mac mini with 4gb ram and an ssd. I think the ssd makes all the difference for me. This computer as is with the ssd is fantastic. Thanks for the information and the how to. You're super talented.
how u running the ssd? externally booted? make sure you use the usb 3.0 ports not the 2.0 ports, 3.0 is 10x faster.
You are watching a master at work 🫡
Amazing work :)
Wow amazing job dude
legend just to align those memory contacts. and those cpu solder balls!
You have some amazing skill level.
Awesome job!
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Oh what a cooooool superrrrrr video and skillllssss!!!!
I DO LOVE IT!!!
🎉you really up on spec these machines
This was insane!
Very interesting video! So much for the average joe doing the upgrade as in the older Mini's where memory and cpu were socketed. As a bench tech for commercial communications equipment one would have to invest in some very serious gear just to do these upgrades. Gone are the days of diy repairs and upgrades for the average individual. I do have half of the equipment needed however reballing would not be my cup of tea. Do you do this work as an occupation or hobby?
Again thanks for the informative video!
Have you considered marking the chip outline on the board before you remove the old cpu to help align the replacement chip?
Wow great job!
@dosdude1 amazing work man! I have a 2014 mini and thought I’d be able to follow along lol… yea I hate admitting defeat but think this is beyond my capabilities 😑.. Your work is impressive though!
Nice Target Display Mode IMac’s. I use two 24-inch Apple Cinema Display with my 2014 Mac mini i7 at home. And yes I know about OCLP 😊
His skills and tools we be valuable when the SHTF.
First video of yours I've seen. Absolutely phenomenal job. I pulled the BIOS chip off of my 2014 Mac mini main board, dumped it, modified it, reflashed it, and resoldered it, but this is so beyond any of that. My only question is what is the motivation for this over buying something used (even the exact model you're upgrading to) or some other option? The challenge? Learning? Fun? Because I can't imagine any cost "savings" having to buy a Mac donor board + RAM chips, no less the stencil, etc. and sundry equipment I assume you already had and time required.
@@anshadedavana Absolutely it's not a for-profit endeavor. In a different comment he said "I'll either just keep them around, or give them to friends of mine who want them."
Crazy skills.
Looks nice and professional, except the part with cleaning the CPU over a DVD player
Not something I could do but great work.
Excellent
muahahahah i love this!!! make the impossible .....POSSIBLE!!!! Keep up the great work!!💪💪
you are so incredible!
something therapeutic about soldering bga's
Dude you should do custom orders. I'd love to see my Mac mini 2014 upgraded like that!
Nice video!
I was wondering if there any place were you share the tools that you use for this memory and cpu upgrades. It looks like a preheater and regular reflow station but I would like to confirm.
Keep it up!
Yeah, just a hot air station, Puhui T8280 preheater, Madell QK853 preheater, and Aoyue 4545W nozzle for doing the large BGAs.
I’m impressed with your upgrades. I was told by a guy who is a certified apple tech that the memory couldn’t be upgraded. Do you do work for other people. I have a late 2014 mac mini. I’ve never done any soldering. I would be very nervous doing something like that. How much did the parts cost and where did you find them?
I mean, officially, no, it can't be upgraded. This isn't any different from installing modchips or other hardware mods to consoles. It *can* be done, but not officially.
Have you tried putting the chip into a clamp after removal for cooling? May help with the warping. (would need flat even planes for top and bottom of the chip between the clamp)
Nice job dodsdude1
Very interesting to see this kind of '"upgrading". Follow-up question: Will 4 x 8GB memory chips work as well? Or is 16GB really the max memory for a 2014 i7 Mac Mini?
This is amazing work!!!! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #WOW
That's a good use of an old DVD/CD ROM drive.
Fantastic
You are a fckn genius. I see The Force is strong with you.
Holy shit, this is gold!
Awesome work.
A complete novice here, so please excuse my ignorance, but I didn't notice you putting any fresh solder on the RAM chips. It looked like you cleaned off all the old solder from the pins on the logic board, added flux to the new RAM chips and then put them on the logic board. Where did the fresh solder come from to solder the new chips onto the board?
what an amazing guy how clever he is i watch his other videos too he cool 😎
It´s amazing
You are godlike!
I wonder if it's possible to make the same trick with Intel Mac Mini 2018, but instead replace cpu to Xeon and add ECC memory?
Crazy men !
Masterly!
Great video. I just have the same Mac mini.
Off topic, how do you open this Mac mini? I want to disable the internal speaker since my internal speaker now makes a gurgle sound. Now, I just use the external speakers. I cannot disable it by changing through the setting since I already deleted my MacOS. I have replaced it with several Linux OSes.
Hey can you please write down in your video description which hardware are you using? I would like to know which preheater, which reball station, which soldering iron and which hot air gun are you using. I want to upgrade my equipment and I need some inspiration or tips. :-D
I've asked you a while before in comments in other video but I've never got respond.
Amazing. How did you got to know all of that?
so genius are you! 👍👍👍👍
I would like to see you fit or modify the part or parts required to get apple OS to boot natively on any laptop or desktop pc.
Awesome video, Nice work! What do you typically do with the machines once you finish these upgrade-proof-of-concepts?
I'll either just keep them around, or give them to friends of mine who want them.
omg the solder balls looks hard.