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1600MHz works and runs at 1600 MacBook Pro 2011
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I needed 8gb and although the performance might be minimal, I thought I would give the 1600 sticks a try since they weren't really too much more expensive than the 1333 ones. Hope this helps some people wondering if it will work with 1600.
I needed 8gb and although the performance might be minimal, I thought I would give the 1600 sticks a try since they weren't really too much more expensive than the 1333 ones. Hope this helps some people wondering if it will work with 1600.
I think it is also worth noting that I bought the part number
KHX1600C9S3K2/8G
Not the KHX1600C9S3K2/8GX. I believe these might not work - not 100% sure
Just wanted to document that before someone buys the other part number and is pissed off. They both are 1600mhz ram but the GX part you might have to enable XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles) to get it to work - which us mac users cant do.
KHX1600C9S3K2/8G
Not the KHX1600C9S3K2/8GX. I believe these might not work - not 100% sure
Just wanted to document that before someone buys the other part number and is pissed off. They both are 1600mhz ram but the GX part you might have to enable XMP (Extreme Memory Profiles) to get it to work - which us mac users cant do.
Not too sure. I have a new vertex 3 in and it SCREAMS. It is hard to tell. Can someone post some stock geekbench scores or whatever test we can compare? My machine does bench slower than others that I have seen before any upgrades though. I think I got a slower machine out of the laptops
oh well we can try and compare
Which MBP have you got?
I am going to swap my iMac for the 2.3 17" MBP with 240Gb Vertex 3 and 8Gb. It will be my main computer. The power in these new MBP's are amazing. Would be awesome to have that sort of performance in a portable form factor.
I am going to swap my iMac for the 2.3 17" MBP with 240Gb Vertex 3 and 8Gb. It will be my main computer. The power in these new MBP's are amazing. Would be awesome to have that sort of performance in a portable form factor.
Not too sure. I have a new vertex 3 in and it SCREAMS. It is hard to tell. Can someone post some stock geekbench scores or whatever test we can compare? My machine does bench slower than others that I have seen before any upgrades though. I think I got a slower machine out of the laptops
Here is my memory rating in Geek Bench 32bit mode. 8 GB of Crucial @ 1333. Yours appears to be a bit faster.
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Interesting scores. It certainly looks like the 1600 is being taken advantage of!
Will be buying 8gb soon, certainly persuaded me. Just got to find it in the UK.
Will be buying 8gb soon, certainly persuaded me. Just got to find it in the UK.
This is good news if it turns out to be the case. The only thing that concerns me is if running the Vertex 3 is affecting the scores. Given it is a ram test but it is testing ram by reading information off the hard drive and if the hard drive is supplying the ram with data much faster then the scores would be higher. I am still running the stock 5400 speed drive at this point.
What we need is someone else with the Vertex 3 to also perform this test in 32bit mode running 1333 MHz ram.
What we need is someone else with the Vertex 3 to also perform this test in 32bit mode running 1333 MHz ram.
In my 2011 2.2 15", I am using the 8GX ram as I got it for a good deal. It shows as 1333. =(
well i don't think the performance difference will be night an day, that said, i think it'll be slightly higher but it'll be really hard to see.
i'm looking forward to see how this turns out.
i'm looking forward to see how this turns out.
You are quite correct.
In a Windows based pc, the RAM speed is also governed by the motherboard and BIOS setup. Some boards allow the RAM to be overclocked. If you want to read more than you will ever want to know about RAM and overclocking in general, check out overclock.net. You will find that overclocking RAM gives only a small improvement in overclocking cpu's.
I found a quite cheap kit for $125 so, I have decided after seeing this that even if the difference is very very small, for an extra ~$35 its all good, 8GB that is.
I honestly have not noticed a difference with my current 1333 RAM vs. my old 1066 RAM or 800Mhz RAM from earlier MBP's.
Though, I wonder if higher speed RAM would help with the SSD beach balling issue.
/ Yes, I don't know what I'm talking about. =)
/ No, I don't know exactly where the hiccup is. =P