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Crucial now selling Mac Pro Ram again
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PowerMike G5 said:
Please take some pictures of this. It's a little strange. Apple's supplier is Nanya, but Crucial is the retail side of Micron - two entirely different memory manufacturers. I'm surprised they be exactly the same, aside from looks.
I received my Crucial RAM today. They arrived as pictured on their website with the enormous heatsinks and all.
When I have ordered from Crucial in the past, the RAM has come in a box that is only slightly larger than the memory itself. This RAM on the other hand came in a box that measured 18x15x4 (inches). I thought, "Surely this isn't my RAM." I open the box and sure enough, there are my two sticks of RAM. They were shipped in a tray that held 20 sticks with an entirely empty tray beneath it the first tray. And these are heavy trays, too. I guess they were finishing of a tray of these bad boys and decided to just ship them out in the original packaging. This takes the cake for overpackaging in my book.
When I have ordered from Crucial in the past, the RAM has come in a box that is only slightly larger than the memory itself. This RAM on the other hand came in a box that measured 18x15x4 (inches). I thought, "Surely this isn't my RAM." I open the box and sure enough, there are my two sticks of RAM. They were shipped in a tray that held 20 sticks with an entirely empty tray beneath it the first tray. And these are heavy trays, too. I guess they were finishing of a tray of these bad boys and decided to just ship them out in the original packaging. This takes the cake for overpackaging in my book.
holmespun said:
So what was the result of your phone call? I got mine with standard sinks. The guy I talked to said he wasn't even aware they had 2gb kits with the larger sinks available and that they shipped the wrong ram and would issue an RMA.
I would have to reorder the correct memory later at whatever price was offered on the website.
Well crucial finally stocks the apple ram and the prices are a joke. Just picked up 4gb of Kingston ram from newegg for $699 and its perfect. Crucial wants $1100 for same ram. I don't think 2 freakin heatsinks are worth $400 do you?
Not necessarily, perhaps if it means my system is safe though.macenforcer said:
The $1100 package at Crucial is 2x2GB sticks. At Newegg 2x2GB Kingstons with very very small heat sinks runs you about 750. considering the computer is supposed to run better on 4 identical sticks rather than 2 (quad channel memory) I'd rather pick up 4x1Gb sticks with the big heat sinks at crucial for about 850. But thats jus personal preference.
Silentwave said:
Come on, the only difference between the 2 rams is the heatsink. You could buy the 2 512mb dimms from crucial for $217 then buy the the kingston 2gb dimms and still be $200 cheaper, then you could take the heatsinks off the 512mb dimms and put them on the kingston 2gb dimms. Paying $400 for heatsinks is a fools errand.
Silentwave said:Actually, the way i'd do it i'd only be paying $100 more for the heatsinks...
I totally agree with you, its a piece of mind knowing that you won't have to worry about over heating RAM or it clocking down.For someone that actually NEEDS the MacPro,its more important to spend time on there work rather than worrying about ram errors and overheating. If you can afford a MacPro then you should be able to afford the proper ram.
Silentwave said:Actually, the way i'd do it i'd only be paying $100 more for the heatsinks...
Hence why they charge so much.
seems a bit of bait and switch
Well, I just recieved my ram from Crucial and although I ordered this:
http://www.crucial.com/store/MPartspecs.Asp?mtbpoid=D910570FA5CA7304&WSMD=Mac+Pro&WSPN=CT576475
Which at the time and according to previous posts was 309.00 per two gigs.
I recieved this: (part number on the bag matches and everthing)
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.asp?imodule=CT12872AF667&WSMD=CT12872AF667&WSPN=CT12872AF667
Not only that, but I got two of them. I'm a bit confused because now it looks like I paid over 100 bucks too much per 2 gig order.
I'm going to call and I'll post how it goes.
bummed.
Well, I just recieved my ram from Crucial and although I ordered this:
http://www.crucial.com/store/MPartspecs.Asp?mtbpoid=D910570FA5CA7304&WSMD=Mac+Pro&WSPN=CT576475
Which at the time and according to previous posts was 309.00 per two gigs.
I recieved this: (part number on the bag matches and everthing)
http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.asp?imodule=CT12872AF667&WSMD=CT12872AF667&WSPN=CT12872AF667
Not only that, but I got two of them. I'm a bit confused because now it looks like I paid over 100 bucks too much per 2 gig order.
I'm going to call and I'll post how it goes.
bummed.
Just ordered 2GB kit (2 x 1GB) from Crucial for $400.00. My Mac Pro wont be here for a couple of weeks so I probably jumped the gun on the mem. I just got excited when I saw the 1GB sticks and lost control.
I just ordered these from newegg.
They seem to have all good reviews about usage on the mac pro and 2 gigs came out to 360. I plan to just swap the heatsinks and put the stock ram in there with the regular heatspreaders...although most say they use them as is.
The 2x2gig is more worthwhile as it comes out to $728 whereas the crucial is $1100.
They seem to have all good reviews about usage on the mac pro and 2 gigs came out to 360. I plan to just swap the heatsinks and put the stock ram in there with the regular heatspreaders...although most say they use them as is.
The 2x2gig is more worthwhile as it comes out to $728 whereas the crucial is $1100.
Fedge said:
So my 2x512MB from crucial arrived.
Ok, Pictures. As you can see, the box it shipped in is absolutely massive. It measures 18"x15". It had two heavy trays that could hold up to 40 DIMMS. Overkill? Methinks so.
If only the trays had been full
The box is gigantic. It makes the two 24" monitors in the background look small.
Note the "EMPTY TRAY". Thanks, crucial, I hadn't noticed. I would have prefereed a "FULL TRAY".
Both DIMMS
The Label.
Fullsize heatsinks
View from the end.
fedge where did you order yours from? link?
also damado when is your ram supposed to arrive? i was planning on getting that exact ram, but havnt heard anyone comment on them yet. let me know your results, i plan on buying them the day my mac ships, or if newegg has a crazy sale this weekend.
also damado when is your ram supposed to arrive? i was planning on getting that exact ram, but havnt heard anyone comment on them yet. let me know your results, i plan on buying them the day my mac ships, or if newegg has a crazy sale this weekend.
obviously they are crucial, i ment the link to the store w/ item, as some people were stating buying ram that looked the same on the store, but were in fact shipping with smaller heatsinks.
mistafreeze said:
http://www.crucial.com/store/MPartspecs.Asp?mtbpoid=E2412FEFA5CA7304&WSMD=Mac+Pro&WSPN=CT579441
I ordered the 2x512 kit for the Mac Pro. Pretty straighforward . . .
mistafreeze said:
If you go to the newegg site, there are several reviews on the product page saying it works great on the mac pro. Actually I think all the reviews are about the mac pro.
ewiz has them for $169 when you follow the froogle link to it here
I'll get mine sometime next week, but I'm still waiting on my mac pro to ship =/
Huge Price Spike!
So I checked crucial's website today for RAM pricing and the prices have sky rocketed. I picked up my 2x512MB for $199 only a week-ish ago. Today, they're marked at $299. That's exactly the price of apple's RAM. Sheesh, when they said there'd be a spike in pricing, I didn't think it'd be this much. I guess I'll wait this out before I pick up any more RAM for my mac.
So I checked crucial's website today for RAM pricing and the prices have sky rocketed. I picked up my 2x512MB for $199 only a week-ish ago. Today, they're marked at $299. That's exactly the price of apple's RAM. Sheesh, when they said there'd be a spike in pricing, I didn't think it'd be this much. I guess I'll wait this out before I pick up any more RAM for my mac.