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What kind of Ram should I get? Does it matter? - 2008/03/02 13:42Ok so I'm getting a MacPro and these suckers are expensive as hell and I don't want to pay the HUGE Apple markup for RAM... so the modules I"m looking at are:
Is there any difference in these 2 besides price? Is the crucial going to be more reliable or faster or somehow have better performance?
If not I'd rather save some money...
I'm getting the 8 core MacPro with 2Gigs of RAM (They won't ship it with no RAM) and then I'm going to be adding 6 more Gigs of RAM. I'm getting 4x 500Gig HD's and 2x 24inch Monitors... If I can save even a few hundred on RAM it would help A LOT.
Any advice guys?
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Re:What kind of Ram should I get? Does it matter? - 2008/03/02 20:42Here's the scoop: Apple designed the Mac Pro as a workstation, and as such has given it very specific memory requirements.
Because of the Mac Pro's thermal design, its memory must bear an "Apple-certified" or "Apple-approved" heat spreader. Major memory vendors had a tough time with this initially, but were able to work through the issue within the system's first three months. (Source: Macworld)
Once you get past the thermal specs, you then must determine that the memory meets the correct speed and parity requirements:
- PC2-5300 minimum transfer speed DDR2 (PC2-6400 recommended for '08 models) - Fully Buffered DIMM - ECC - Must be installed in pairs
The big guys have them.
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