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Pics: Upgrade to 2 Gig RAM (533mhz) in Mac Mini Intel SUCCSFULL!

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mikedavid00

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StealthRider said:
Your mini has an integrated GPU. Due to this, it needs the fastest access to the memory possible, or the entire system will bog down. Choking the bus will not help you AT ALL. Go for the PC2-5300, or you will regret it when your mini is slowwwwwwww.
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Hi!

Well I installed the RAM and this mac is so much better now. I got the RAM at TigerDirect in Canada and each 1 gig stick was $100. So hey, I got two of them.

I now have 2 gigs of RAM and do not see or feel any difference using PC4200 w/ 533MHZ. I can confirm this does work.

Anyone wanna run some bench marks so we can compare my performance loss using (PC4200)?

I'm waging that they'll be almost neglegable.

Here's some pics I took:

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Can you put the link up for the original thread where this was talked about? At the moment it's apropo to nothing. ;)
 
so you paid $200 for slow ram? and you had to install it yourself?

wouldn't it be much better to pay the $300 for the original apple upgrade?

it's the faster ram, you don't have to install it yourself and most importantly it doesn't void the warranty.

although in theory upgrading the ram doesn't void the warranty if you screw something up in the process you lose the warranty. and if you have problems later apple will not check you machine before you remove all third party ram. so you have to go through all the trouble again. that's not worth saving $100.
 
AlBDamned said:
Can you put the link up for the original thread where this was talked about? At the moment it's apropo to nothing. ;)
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It's right here:

533MHZ RAM upgrade for new Inet Mac Mini?

man my system just doens't swap now.. very happy with this upgrade.
 
good upgrade, and to the person above who says it was dumb i give the wag of the finger. dont be a tool and buy overpriced ram from apple. i worked alot with pcs over the years and i love saving money when possible
 
jamesi said:
good upgrade, and to the person above who says it was dumb i give the wag of the finger. dont be a tool and buy overpriced ram from apple. i worked alot with pcs over the years and i love saving money when possible
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The point is not buying Apple RAM vs. some other -- but intentionally fitting RAM that is under-specification and hoping that it works.
 
CanadaRAM said:
Well, you're overclocking that RAM, so make sure your data is backed up, if it decides not to take it any longer. That's outside of my risk tolerance emvelope to be sure.
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Actually those rams are not overclocked at all, in system profiler it just shows the memory bus running at the slower speed.
 
CanadaRAM said:
The point is not buying Apple RAM vs. some other -- but intentionally fitting RAM that is under-specification and hoping that it works.
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Dude,

It IS working. And my system flys now like it should be. IFilm HD was fast fast..

Here is a screen to show you it's working:

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mikedavid00 said:
Dude,

It IS working. And my system flys now like it should be. IFilm HD was fast fast..

Here is a screen to show you it's working:

picture27rd.gif
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Your page-outs to page-ins ratio seems high.
 
don't Page Outs mean that you've run out of RAM and instead of using RAM it's using temporary space on the hard disk (resulting in severe slowdown)?

I'm not sure what Page Ins are - but it's the page outs that you really don't want to be happening.
 
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