I am looking at giving my new Mac Pro an upgrade (an early 2008, a bog-standard 2.8 Ghz (nice bog though!)).
RAM
I have read on OWC and Barefeats.com that it is better to fill all 8 slots and with max of £200 to spend (I was thinking that OWC was the best place to buy?), should I buy 4x2gb or 6x1gb (both more or less the same price)?
I would keep my 2x1gb my Apple RAM in so if I would have 2 spaces left and according to the Barefeats and OWC tests, the beast would be a gig a second (noticeable?) slower with the 4x2gb even though it was 10gb total RAM. True or false? I've noticed a lot of people on here go for the 2gb sticks.
Hard Drive
My final upgrade dilemma is, when I put in another hard drive in my 2nd slot (I'd keep the 320gb standard one in the 1st) can I transfer my OS onto my new hard drive? (With the view to eventually replace the original hard drive when all 4 slots are hard drived up)
If so, how do I do it? Easy peasey or not?
Thank you for any feed back,
Jonny
RAM
I have read on OWC and Barefeats.com that it is better to fill all 8 slots and with max of £200 to spend (I was thinking that OWC was the best place to buy?), should I buy 4x2gb or 6x1gb (both more or less the same price)?
I would keep my 2x1gb my Apple RAM in so if I would have 2 spaces left and according to the Barefeats and OWC tests, the beast would be a gig a second (noticeable?) slower with the 4x2gb even though it was 10gb total RAM. True or false? I've noticed a lot of people on here go for the 2gb sticks.
Hard Drive
My final upgrade dilemma is, when I put in another hard drive in my 2nd slot (I'd keep the 320gb standard one in the 1st) can I transfer my OS onto my new hard drive? (With the view to eventually replace the original hard drive when all 4 slots are hard drived up)
If so, how do I do it? Easy peasey or not?
Thank you for any feed back,
Jonny
