Mac Pro Memory Special

[sblasl]

Over on xlr8yourmac.com, Mike has posted the weekend specials from TransIntl.com. Has anyone purchased any memory from them? Any problems if you have purchased memory in the past?

I have the 2.66 Mac Pro, I already have 2GB configured as 4x512mb. I am wanting to add an additional 4GB. I still haven't decided whether to purchase 4x1GB or 2x2GB.

Any thoughts on these prices or the quality of the RAM?

MacPro Memory (DDR2 667 ECC FB-Dimms):

2GB Kit (2x1GB): $158
4GB Kit (2x2GB): $288
8GB Kit (4x2GB): $568
16GB Kit (8x2GB): $1128

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/

Crucial is $379.99 for the 2x2GB and $199.99 for the 2x1GB.

 

[twoodcc]

i've never heard of that site before. i like to use datamem.com

 

[suneohair]

Some folks from here have bought from Transintl before. Mixed reviews. Good price though. I think barefeats gave it a thumbs up. I would buy some today, but I want to know for sure that Apple is using DDR2 FB-DIMMs in the new Pro.

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

Not bad..however I just ordered an additional 2GB today from OWC for my Mac Pro.

 

[SDAVE]

I wouldn't trust it. Too cheap for my tastes. I think MacEnforcer had major problems with them. Obviously Barefeats will give it thumbs up because the company probably pays him everytime someone uses the coupon code.

I recommend OWC, I've had zero problems with 8GB (2GBx4) on the first shipment. I had problems from Crucial on three shipments. Your choice, though.

 

[macenforcer]

I had very bad experience with Transintl mac pro ram. I originally purchased 4gb, 2 x 2gb dimms. When it came it was defective. I got an rma and they were going to send me more. I thought that I really needed 8gb for my video work so on the replacement shipment I ordered another 4gb so that 8gb would arrive all at once. I sent the 4gb back. Got the 8gb. ALL FOUR dimms were defective. I couldn't believe it. My mac pro had all kinds of problems from not booting to not restarting and crashes. I sent them all back for a refund. 3 weeks later I checked my credit card for the refund. They had not refunded me anything. I called my credit card company and refused the charge. They ended up refunding me the cost of the ram but not the shipping charges. My credit card company refunded me the whole thing as they found them at fault.

So to sum up. All the dimms were defective. They didn't refund my money. When pressured by my cc company they refunded the ram but not the shipping.

Sorry but they suck. I ended up buying crucial and it has been perfect.

I would stay away from Transintl.

 

[SDAVE]

Selling RAM that's $400 cheaper than most of the competition sounds a bit fishy to me....I don't know, I'm after quality not quantity, so it's upto the user to decide...but for me I've had zero problems with OWC and I've been using all of it's RAM during rendering, upto 8.5GB when I check the activity monitor. I've gotten zero ECC errors and I've done plenty of tests, even ran Rember on for 3 days straight on Loop.

Also I had the exact "bad luck" with Crucial. All their Micron DIMMs sucked. I had 8 in my posession (Yes, I could have had 16GB Total Ram @ 2GB per Dimm) and only 3 of them were good. I had to return about $1,600 worth of RAM back to Crucial and they refunded all the money back including shipping charges.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Obviously Barefeats will give it thumbs up because the company probably pays him everytime someone uses the coupon code.

You are suggesting that the test results on Barefeats are for sale, then?
And will issue a recommendation for substandard RAM because of advertising revenues?

That's a serious accusation unless you have something to back it up with.

 

[SDAVE]

You are suggesting that the test results on Barefeats are for sale, then?
And will issue a recommendation for substandard RAM because of advertising revenues?

That's a serious accusation unless you have something to back it up with.

How can a company sell such high end Ram for so cheap? There is no need for me to accuse anybody, but the price makes you think twice before buying it. If "trusted" companies A and B sell it for about $900 for the same amount of RAM, and TransIntl comes in and sells it for $560, doesn't it make you go hmmmmmmmmm?

The Barefeats site needs to make money...not saying that he's doing anything bad, maybe I would do the same if advertisers payed me as well.

 

[sblasl]

I have never questioned the integrity of Mike over at xlr8yourmac.com or Rob over at Bare Feats. Both of these sites in my opinion are "reference" sites and they provide unbiased commentary & information. They both have TransIntl as sponsors and they both provide links to TransIntl.

I have purchased from OWC & Crucial over the course of many years. I don't have alot of patience in having to go through a bunch of RMA's just to obtain a few "good" sticks of RAM however and I am willing to pay for quality.

These prices just amazed me and that was why I was soliciting some input from you guys.

And I know the "if it sounds to good to be true..." might be in play here.

 

[CanadaRAM]

How can a company sell such high end Ram for so cheap? There is no need for me to accuse anybody,

But you did.

 

[SDAVE]

But you did.

So what you're saying is, if I post my opinions here, then it's an accusation? You clearly have no clue what you're talking about.

Accusations and assumptions are not the same. I assumed that they have cheap RAM...and that's a very valid assumption because of the price differences.

 

[Sean bh]

Long story short.
I have four 8gb sticks of transintl ram (SUPPOSEDLY they cater to the film industry) and it always came up as 1066Mhz.
So I recently upgraded my 2012 macpro from 2.46Ghz to 3.46Ghz and was obviously expecting the ram speed to go to 1333Mhz (and yes I reset the PRAM) After much research, I took them out and tested each one at a time and even though ALL of them are transintl. com 8GB PC10600 DDR3 1333MHZ ECC, only two of them would show 1333Mhz. So I called transintl (a brick and mortar macs that state matchless service and support) and they told me to ship it to the to test. So after a whole week, the call me and transintl. com COMPLETELY dropped the ball on me. What a waste of shipping priority mail and waiting a week even though I was told a few days.
I sent the 4 sticks USPS priority mail last Thursday, they got it on Sat and said they'll run stress and other tests. And was told by their tech/warranty dept. that they would take care of me (not sure what that means, I was under the impression that would be some of compensation or adjustment or something) and have it back by Monday or Tuesday. I get a call on Wednesday saying that all 4 sticks ran perfectly at 1333Mhz, but they didn't use a mac (they only had a PC and it was sent out to someone else). And I asked well can you at least swap out the ones that I marked, that on my mac only show up as 1066Mhz and they said no, so they shipped it back and I got it last night (January Thursday 28th) and put the ones that I marked, that only show up as 1066Mhz, and low and behold it’s the same issue. I am very disappointed in this company and of course will never use them again. Finally re-bought all of my ram from OWC (which I called and mentioned my situation, and they told me that they would have just swapped out the RAM). Expensive lesson learned, just because some random company slaps a sticker on ram with lifetime warranty, doesn’t mean you’ll get true lifetime warranty service like you would from a more reputable company such as OWC.