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Crucial or Apple Memory?
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Apple don't actually manufacture their own memory. They just charge you a HUGE premium for buying it form them.
eBay is the place for memory. Ensure the type of memory that you need and start hunting for some new chip auctions.
I bought a gig of new, unopened Kingston memory for £50, more recently a sealed 300GB Maxtor 150-SATA HDD for £60.
eBay is the place for memory. Ensure the type of memory that you need and start hunting for some new chip auctions.
I bought a gig of new, unopened Kingston memory for £50, more recently a sealed 300GB Maxtor 150-SATA HDD for £60.
Newegg sells Crucial memory cheaper then Crucial does.
But just about any ram that matches specs will work.
And dont buy Apple Ram, it is way overpriced.
I bought my 1Gb stick from newgg and it works great. Mine is KingMax, which had many reviews on newegg, and it works great. Right now KingMax is more expensive then the Crucial on newegg, but when i bought mine was on sale when i bought which made it about 115 shipped.
But just about any ram that matches specs will work.
And dont buy Apple Ram, it is way overpriced.
I bought my 1Gb stick from newgg and it works great. Mine is KingMax, which had many reviews on newegg, and it works great. Right now KingMax is more expensive then the Crucial on newegg, but when i bought mine was on sale when i bought which made it about 115 shipped.
Neither.
Try OWC (MacMall) or New Egg. The link to OWC/MacMall is near the top of the MacRumors page you're viewing now.
Try OWC (MacMall) or New Egg. The link to OWC/MacMall is near the top of the MacRumors page you're viewing now.
Yeah, but NewEgg sells the Crucial generic and doesn't guarantee compatibility.prostuff1 said:
The problem you have is, there is NO way for you to tell if the RAM matches the full specification including SPD settings, so if you're not buying RAM that is guaranteed by the seller to be compatible, then you're on your own for testing.
It also makes a big difference which Mac you have. So if someone says their Kingmax worked in a PowerMac G5, that's no indication whether it will work in an iMac G5 (or indeed, if the Kingmax, or whichever, is the same internal design today as they bought last month)
iv just ordered :
Part # CT477889 (crucial)
DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64
I hope iv ordered the right thing
Part # CT477889 (crucial)
DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64
I hope iv ordered the right thing
Uma888 said:iv just ordered :
Part # CT477889 (crucial)
DDR2 PC2-4200 CL=4 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR2-533 1.8V 128Meg x 64
I hope iv ordered the right thing
Cas Latency 4? Very slow by memory standards.
gwuMACaddict said:what an unhelpful answer
Meh, you hear this about a million times to date.
Same old questions, no one bothers to do a search. I cannot figure what is the problem with MR users or society in general.
ok.
ill send it back.
Iv yet to find a compatible solution. i found a few sites bt i dont know if they are compatible with my system
ill send it back.
Iv yet to find a compatible solution. i found a few sites bt i dont know if they are compatible with my system
No, CL4 is the standard latency for DDR-2. Just look at any of the Mac memory vendor sites for the new DDR-2 RAM, they are all CL4. http://www.datamem.com/viewcat.asp_Q_C_E_1177MacRumorUser said:
Sure it would be nice if faster DDR-2 could be manufactured, but right now the only CL3 DDR-2 533 RAM is high priced gamer RAM, and we don't know yet if the Mac will run faster on CL3 than CL4. Barefeats has done one test that suggests maybe, but the results are within the margin of error.
This is the right RAM for the new iMac G5 iSight 1.9 or 2.1 GHz machines.
Uma - don't send it back, now that it's on the way you may as well try it.
Unless you have the older iMac G5 1.8 or 2.0 machine that takes PC3200 RAM of course, then you have the wrong part.
Uma, It would help if you specified which iMac machine you have in your signature line, then we could give better recommendations.
CanadaRAM said:
*Claps Hands*
Thanks for your comments
I have a new iMac g5 (20"), and i wont be using it for ANY games, just basic video/Photo editing, and the usual surfing ect
i used crucials memory config tool to find the right ram
your right, i cant seem to find a lower latency RAM which is compatible with the iMac
TY for your help, i was going to PM, but it looks like you have solved another Ram + iMac related issuse
neda said:
If you like wasting money or mentally insane then buy apple ram. If not then buy crucial ram, it is just good and has life time guarntee.
