1 or 2 blocks of RAM?

[PYR0M310N]

I was considering upgrading the RAM on my iBook G4 as it is begining to get a bit slugish. Is it better to get 2x512mb of RAM or just 1x1gb? what are the pro's and con's of both?

 

[fivetoadsloth]

in general it is good to have matched pairrs so if you want 1 gig and dont plan pn upgrading it two 512 wll be faster however if you decided to upgrade to 2 gig you have to throw out both 512 and but in 2 1 gigi sticks instead of juist popping in another gig. So if you plan on upgrading it to 2 gig ever than get a gig stick otherwise get two 512s.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Ummm.. I hate to break it to you PYRO, but your iBook has only one socket.

Your only choice is to install one 512 or one 1 Gb together with the soldered-on RAM (128, 256 or 512 depending on the model of iBook)

Choose the 1 Gb.


Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

PS. fivetoad -- good advice, completely wrong machine, though. None of the PowerPC based notebooks require or benefit from matching RAM. May want to check that next time.

 

[fivetoadsloth]

Ummm.. I hate to break it to you PYRO, but your iBook has only one socket.

Your only choice is to install one 512 or one 1 Gb together with the soldered-on RAM (128, 256 or 512 depending on the model of iBook)

Choose the 1 Gb.


Thanks
Trevor
CanadaRAM.com

PS. fivetoad -- good advice, completely wrong machine, though. None of the PowerPC based notebooks require or benefit from matching RAM. May want to check that next time.

oops, my bad. I forgot it was an ibook, not the tower. Sorry trevor is right. Thank you for catching my "oomf"