After some reading I decided to see if I could upgrade my macbook pro to 8gb of ram. I purchased an upgrade from Newegg and they supplied G-Skill F2-5300CL5D-8GBSQ DDRII4GB PC2-5300 Dimms(pair of 4gbs). After one false start where I didn't have the dimm properly seated (no boot, 3 flashes on the front light) I got it to recognise the memory in the system profile.
With the 8gb in it was running poorly, most of the apps hung coming up. I rebooted the system, being forced to hold the on/off switch since it was hung during shutdown. After it came back up it ran better but a windows 7 64 bit vm on vmware fusion 3.02 was practically useless. The vm had run fine when the system only had 4gb of ram. I eventually yanked the 8 gb and put the 4gb back in. I'm debating returning the 8gb, though I'll probably see how it works with 6gb.
So couple questions..... First, here's the specs on my macbook pro.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.18f5
Serial Number (system): W87450SHX94
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63B273C6
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Questions
1) Can this model actually run 8gb. It recognised the ram but performed really badly.
2) If I do up the ram to 6gb how will not working in Dual Channel mode inconvenience me running multiple vm's, occasionally propellerhead reason or ableton live?
3) Can this config run Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode?
Thanks for any input.
Jay
With the 8gb in it was running poorly, most of the apps hung coming up. I rebooted the system, being forced to hold the on/off switch since it was hung during shutdown. After it came back up it ran better but a windows 7 64 bit vm on vmware fusion 3.02 was practically useless. The vm had run fine when the system only had 4gb of ram. I eventually yanked the 8 gb and put the 4gb back in. I'm debating returning the 8gb, though I'll probably see how it works with 6gb.
So couple questions..... First, here's the specs on my macbook pro.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP31.0070.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.18f5
Serial Number (system): W87450SHX94
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001B63B273C6
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Questions
1) Can this model actually run 8gb. It recognised the ram but performed really badly.
2) If I do up the ram to 6gb how will not working in Dual Channel mode inconvenience me running multiple vm's, occasionally propellerhead reason or ableton live?
3) Can this config run Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode?
Thanks for any input.
Jay