So I foolishly bought the 16 gb kit of corsair ddr3 1333 mhz thinking it would work in my 2010 MBP (intel i5, 4gb ram, nVidia 330)
It didn't. In fact it wouldn't boot up with the ram installed, it was stuck at the grey Apple logo. I was curious because I was under the impression that even if the speed was too fast the memory would run at whatever the bus could handle. Eventually I just tried booting in safe mode, and....it worked?
I could see all 16gb in About my mac running at 1067 mhz, which is what I expected to happen to begin with. I didnt have an internet connection at the time so I wasn't able to grab memtest and run it, but after reading other posts here many seem to think that there is a hard limit on 2010 MBP's to support 8gb only. If that were the case, it would have only recognized 8gb of it when it did boot in safe mode.
So this whole thing is confusing me, I was about to return it and geta compatible 16 gb kit but it doesnt appear that there is one. But it also doesn't appear that there is a hard limit of 8 gb in the 2010 MBP. Can anyone verify or make an ounce of sense out of any of this? Why did 16 gb show up in safe mode?
Much appreciated,
Slower than I should be
It didn't. In fact it wouldn't boot up with the ram installed, it was stuck at the grey Apple logo. I was curious because I was under the impression that even if the speed was too fast the memory would run at whatever the bus could handle. Eventually I just tried booting in safe mode, and....it worked?
I could see all 16gb in About my mac running at 1067 mhz, which is what I expected to happen to begin with. I didnt have an internet connection at the time so I wasn't able to grab memtest and run it, but after reading other posts here many seem to think that there is a hard limit on 2010 MBP's to support 8gb only. If that were the case, it would have only recognized 8gb of it when it did boot in safe mode.
So this whole thing is confusing me, I was about to return it and geta compatible 16 gb kit but it doesnt appear that there is one. But it also doesn't appear that there is a hard limit of 8 gb in the 2010 MBP. Can anyone verify or make an ounce of sense out of any of this? Why did 16 gb show up in safe mode?
Much appreciated,
Slower than I should be
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