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18th August 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Jul 2011
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Thread Starter | Mac pro Ram
Hi there, i recently bought i new mac pro i ended up buying a quad instead of an 8 core as i will never max out those cores as it is. It came with 3GB of ddr3 ram installed, but i want to upgrade it to 8gb, now im familiar with upgrading pc ram and understand its the same when changing mac ram, but i read somewhere that this 3gb configuration is triple channel mode which is faster than dual channel. what i was going to do before i read that was... buy 8gb of ddr3 ram and replace the original 3gb with the 8gb, but this would mean im running in only dual channel mode. does this matter? thanks for any help |
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18th August 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Jul 2011
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or if i got 6gb and ran it in triple channel would that be better?
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18th August 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Nov 2004 Location: NYC
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| http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/specials OWC is a great source for ram,site gives great info & prices.If you want to talk to a tech or sales person they are great to deal with as well. Look in memory section.
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19th August 2011
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I just had a problem with a Mac Pro that I bought used...4 gigs of owc ram failed...called them up to buy some more and they said send us the bad ram and we'll just replace it. Super service. I bought an extra 8 gigs I was so impressed by their replacement policy. L. |
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19th August 2011
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Ive used RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, SSD at Crucial.com. Never had a problem. Just put mine up to 14 GB now in my MacPro OWC is great as well.
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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OWC is the bomb....memory, SSD's...everything. Scott | |
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20th August 2011
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thanks for the help guys but im in ireland. i cant use the site you suggested unfortunately. does anybody know if 6gb of tri channel memory would be better than 8gb of dual channel memory? or vice versa thanks |
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20th August 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Northwest USA
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What model Mac Pro (or iMac, Macbook Pro etc) do you have?
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