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1600MHz works and runs at 1600 MacBook Pro 2011

Just bought the Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz Ram because it was on sale for 143 (and also came with their 8GB flash drive - sure why not). Shipped and on its way. I will report back after it is installed.
 
bossmanjunior said:
Just bought the Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600Mhz Ram because it was on sale for 143 (and also came with their 8GB flash drive - sure why not). Shipped and on its way. I will report back after it is installed.
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Cool. I will be interested to see your result findings. I too would have bought the 1600, if it was available 8 months ago when I upgraded out of necessity), but question if we will see any real world advantage as the clock rates are higher, but so is the latency. Seems most of the standard memory runs at 9-9-9-24 (which seems to be the recommended Apple standards), whereas the higher clocks are running at 10-10-10-27. I wonder if the higher latency negates/offsets the higher clocks???? It seems that those running the higher clock modules are not noticing a big difference over the standard and I think this is why. I wonder if the difference would be more prevalent if the latency was the same between old and new.
 
squeakr said:
Cool. I will be interested to see your result findings. I too would have bought the 1600, if it was available 8 months ago when I upgraded out of necessity), but question if we will see any real world advantage as the clock rates are higher, but so is the latency.
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There is 1600MHz RAM available which has CL9 latency.
Higher bandwidth does not necessarily mean a longer latency.
Check the Buying_RAM guide for more information!
 
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AppleMacFinder said:
There is 1600MHz RAM available that has the same latency (CL9) as :apple: stock 1333MHz RAM.
Higher bandwidth does not necessarily mean longer latency.
Unfortunately, you cannot find 16GB 1600MHz RAM which is CL9 - only 8GB 1600MHz CL9.
Check the Buying_RAM guide for more info.
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I agree with your statement and apologize slightly as I should have been more clear with my statements. Since I was thinking this was in a 16GB discussion thread, I was only focusing on that sizing construct (but even then I noticed that some of the 1600 is running 9-9-9-27 and not 9-9-9-24, which seems to make little sense to me?).
 
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Just got my RAM today, will install and report back

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okay, i finally installed the RAM i got earlier today. Here are some pics.

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And here is proof that it is working at 1600Mhz:

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BTW, I have the early-2011 2.2 i7
 
shortcut3d said:
I received and tested the Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600MHz kit last week. It passed Rember and Geekbench Stress Tests
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I'm curious how these run, previous thread users say anything over CAS9 causes problems. Thank you for the comparision screenshots, I was thinking 300 points difference on the Geekbench is acceptable until I looked at the 1600 one and saw the difference in numbers of the Memory section.

I'm just like everyone else that stumbles across this thread in Google, I have 4GB of 1333Mhz and am paging out in VM usage. Would 8GB work, probably, but if 16GB can be had and it causes no issues in a Memory Test /shrug why not?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233265

There is a link to the modules for reference.
 
@ticktock
I will say that I had 8GB of RAM before i got that module, but now everything loads noticeably faster, especially web pages.
 
bossmanjunior said:
None so far, but its been a day
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Understood, thank you for taking the time to help! I might go 8GB of 1600Mhz I'm so indecisive. I use CS5 but not for anything really intensive, just making artwork and signatures for the gaming community that I'm in. I do no video editing and if I did it would be short videos in 1080p from my camcorder. I do play games though, Skyrim under Windows 7 Ultimate (Bootcamp), Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft (OS X). What do you guys/gals think?
 
I have been running the same corsiar vengeance ram since 18 feb not a single issue so far even under max loads(actually using 15 of 16GB's).
 
T1ckT0ck said:
I'm curious how these run, previous thread users say anything over CAS9 causes problems. Thank you for the comparision screenshots, I was thinking 300 points difference on the Geekbench is acceptable until I looked at the 1600 one and saw the difference in numbers of the Memory section.

I'm just like everyone else that stumbles across this thread in Google, I have 4GB of 1333Mhz and am paging out in VM usage. Would 8GB work, probably, but if 16GB can be had and it causes no issues in a Memory Test /shrug why not?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233265

There is a link to the modules for reference.
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That is the correct product link.

I've had no issue with memory up to 1866MHz in the 2011 Intel Sandybridge Mac line-up. Of course, my processor limitations have been all Intel i7s, which is fairly limited sample.
 
Hi guys, i need a little help.

I have a macbook pro 13" i5 2.4 (late 2011).

I want to put 16GB of 1600MHz ram in my macbook. I was seeing the information in the notebook and it shows that I have two ports SATA 6Gbps.

I wonder if anyone has used these memories in this version of macbook pro.

I have the option to buy the Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz with latency 10

Can anyone help me? :)
 
rafael.souza said:
Hi guys, i need a little help.

I have a macbook pro 13" i5 2.4 (late 2011).

I want to put 16GB of 1600MHz ram in my macbook. I was seeing the information in the notebook and it shows that I have two ports SATA 6Gbps.

I wonder if anyone has used these memories in this version of macbook pro.

I have the option to buy the Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz with latency 10

Can anyone help me? :)
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I think I have the same questions you have! I started a new topic to solve them. You can join if you want:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1353685/

I think the user TypeEE can also help us, since he has the same model ...
 
thanks for the info, i just bought the Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHz for my early 2011 17" macbookpro.... hope everything goes smooth.
 
Just installed the 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz in my 13" MBP i7 2.8GHz. About this mac is showing 1600MHz and I used Geekbench to test against 8GB GSkill 1333MHz. Memory = 6500 (vs. 6100) and Stream = 5800 (vs. 5000). The higher values are the 1600MHz so it seems as if the ram is running at full speed.
 
So should I get the 16GB version of this ram? Will it definitely work in my MBP early 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro 2.2Ghz? Anybody getting kernal panics with these?
 
My Corsair Vengeance 8GB stopped working after 2-3 months. Started getting kernel panics and made things worse when the thunderbolt update was released last week.

Repair guys at the Apple Store tested it and said it failed on all 11 points. Sending it back to Corsair. Ordered the 16GB Mac Memory from Corsair as the priced dropped some more since I got the 8GB.
 
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