FYI: Apple did offer a 750 GB HD drive originally so that is not surprising.
Unless your system came with a blade SSD either discreetly or as part of a Fusion Drive your system doesn’t have the PCIe/NVMe interface so your options are limited to the SATA interface. As far as the Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD that’s not possible here as that is a blade drive not a SATA drive.
I would upgrade the SATA drive to a SSD or a hybrid SSHD and get to 16GB of RAM.
Your system is likely the SATA only model so that means the drive you need to get is either:
If you’re game upgrading the CPU would get you more performance, but do you really needed it? You don’t sound like someone that would be pushing their system that hard that the i7 would offer that much more over the i5 you have.
The RAM and SSD upgrades will get you what you need.
One last point! You’ll need this [https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIDIMACHDD12/|OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for Hard Drive Upgrade for 27" iMacs 2012 and Later]. Apple contracted for a special version of drive so the drives internal sensor could be used for the systems thermal control via SMC. So when you replace your current drive you’ll encounter a problem as the sensor access will be gone! This in-line sensor replaces that sensor.
FYI: Apple did offer a 750 GB HD drive originally so that is not surprising.
Unless your system came with a blade SSD either discreetly or as part of a Fusion Drive your system doesn’t have the PCIe/NVMe interface so your options are limited to the SATA interface. As far as the Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD that’s not possible here as that is a blade drive not a SATA drive.
I would upgrade the SATA drive to a SSD or a hybrid SSHD and get to 16GB of RAM.
Your system is likely the SATA only model so that means the drive you need to get is either:
If you’re game upgrading the CPU would get you more performance, but do you really needed it? You don’t should like someone that would be pushing their system that hard that the i7 would offer that much more over the i5 you have.
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If you’re game upgrading the CPU would get you more performance, but do you really needed it? You don’t sound like someone that would be pushing their system that hard that the i7 would offer that much more over the i5 you have.
The RAM and SSD upgrades will get you what you need.
One last point! You’ll need this [https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIDIMACHDD12/|OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for Hard Drive Upgrade for 27" iMacs 2012 and Later]. Apple contracted for a special version of drive so the drives internal sensor could be used for the systems thermal control via SMC. So when you replace your current drive you’ll encounter a problem as the sensor access will be gone! This in-line sensor replaces that sensor.
FYI: Apple did offer a 750 GB HD drive originally so that is not surprising.
Unless your system came with a blade SSD either discreetly or as part of a Fusion Drive your system doesn’t have the PCIe/NVMe interface so your options are limited to the SATA interface. As far as the Samsung 970 EVO M.2 SSD that’s not possible here as that is a blade drive not a SATA drive.
I would upgrade the SATA drive to a SSD or a hybrid SSHD and get to 16GB of RAM.
Your system is likely the SATA only model so that means the drive you need to get is either:
* [https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi.static/Samsung_SSD_860_EVO_Data_Sheet_Rev1.pdf|Samsung SSD 860 EVO]
* [https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/firecuda-family/firecuda/files/firecuda-2-5-ds1908-1-1609us.pdf|Seagate FireCuda SSHD]
If you’re game upgrading the CPU would get you more performance, but do you really needed it? You don’t should like someone that would be pushing their system that hard that the i7 would offer that much more over the i5 you have.
The RAM and SSD upgrades will get you what you need.
One last point! You’ll need this [https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIDIMACHDD12/|OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for Hard Drive Upgrade for 27" iMacs 2012 and Later]. Apple contracted for a special version of drive so the drives internal sensor could be used for the systems thermal control via SMC. So when you replace your current drive you’ll encounter a problem as the sensor access will be gone! This in-line sensor replaces that sensor.