And the finalists are... - where do you buy extra RAM from ???

[Err]

purchased from crucial 5 or 6 times, never a problem, another vote for crucial!!

 

[AJ Muni]

This is just hilarious....

 

[ibook30]

This is just hilarious....

Funny stuff!
For that price it better remrmber stuff, and wash windows !

I have some Crucial on the way - perhaps today !
This is the first time I have purchased from them, easy to order (which should be the case all the time!), and quick confirmation. Hope the product is as good as the buying experience.

 

[FoxyKaye]

I've been very happy with OWC (eshop.macsales.com). They know Macs. My friend recently shopped for RAM for an old G3 and they had a note about a very obscure memory controller issue, and which brands of RAM were affected...

I'm one of the (probably many) G3 owners who brought that problem to their attention, believe me when I say they weren't always so nice. I bought Crucial for my iMac and I'll never use OWC again.

Crucial and DMS is what we use at work, and have never had a problem with either.

 

[HiRez]

I like OtherWorld Computing RAM, however I did put two 512 MB chips in my G5 from ChumpUSA (it's PNY brand RAM). They come in a matched set of two specifically for G5 PowerMacs (and marked as such). These have worked great and I would recommend them IF you can happen to find them on sale, since normal prices will be more than you will pay online.

 

[solvs]

Something like Crucial (or Samsung) from Newegg. Usually cheaper than going to the site. Never had a problem, always read the reviews. Outpost had Geil RAM on sale not too long ago. We bought some at Fry's that had a rebate, and it works fine in my friend's G5 iMac. Just watch those heat spreaders, you don't want those. I wouldn't say cheap out over a few bucks, but if you shop around, you can get a pretty good deal.

 

[Jon'sLightBulbs]

Fer Criminey Sake: We've been over this ground before. The Kingston that Outpost (and NewEgg, and Tiger) sells is the Kingston ValueRAM and it is neither tested nor guaranteed compatible with Macs. Outpost does not provide any compatibility guarantee.

Works fine with my powerbook 1ghz 12in.

 

[FFTT]

The GeIL DIMMs I purchased seem totally fine but they do have
heat spreaders.

So far no problems whatsoever, but your comments do have me wondering
if the heat spreaders are safely removable.

Crucial also sells their Apple guaranteed Ballistics DIMMs similar to the GeIL
with heat spreaders, so it may just be a matter of using extra care installing the DIMMs.

 

[iGary]

I bought all 8GB but the last two from Crucial for my PM.

My iBook and my old PM G4, oh, and mu old iMac G5 all had Crucial too.

No problems.

The last two gigs I got were Samsung from OWC. No problems.

 

[CanadaRAM]

The GeIL DIMMs I purchased seem totally fine but they do have heat spreaders.

So far no problems whatsoever, but your comments do have me wondering
if the heat spreaders are safely removable.

Crucial also sells their Apple guaranteed Ballistics DIMMs similar to the GeIL
with heat spreaders, so it may just be a matter of using extra care installing the DIMMs.

Depends on the machine, the iMac G5 and Mini DEFINITELY have no room for heat spreaders, neither does the eMac in the second socket (you could probably make one fit in the outer socket. The PowerMac G5 towers are OK with them. Heat spreaders by and large are removeable -- the module underneath the spreader is the same construction as without the spreaders. The spreaders' intention is to improve cooling of the RAM chips in overclocked machines. This is a non-issue with Macs, however, as the motherboard runs the RAM at a fixed speed.

You do have to make a distinction between "apple guaranteed" and "guaranteed to which specific machine". The Geil Apple modules probably specify PowerMac G5 compatibility, which you can't assume to extend to other models.

Works fine with my powerbook 1ghz 12in.

Good. You were lucky. And you have a different machine from the OP.

From a sample size of one however it is not generalizable to say that Kingston ValueRAM will work in Macs: in fact the Mini, iMac G5 and Powerbooks 15" 1.0 and 1.25, 17" 1.0 and 1.33 MHz have all been widely reported, here and in other forums, to be incompatible with the KVR series Kingston RAM. One thing we know for certain though, is that Kingston do not guarantee compatibility with Macintosh on any of their ValueRAM modules.

 

[FFTT]

Thanks for getting back to me CanadaRAM

I wrote to the GeIL factory rep asking them to clarify their DIMM
compatibility charts.
I also,followed up asking Newegg to do the same, so hopefully
people wil be more confident about GeIL in the future.

Honestly since the high performance GeIL CAS 2.5 RAM runs at the lower CAS 3 speed of the Apple Factory RAM, I may not see any major difference.
The one thing I avoided was testing the GeIL RAM as far as bootability
without the Apple RAM installed.

I guess it would work, but I'm not that brave.
It shows up in the system profiler, so I'm good.