Apple RAM vs Apple qualified RAM and non Apple RAM

[DELTAsnake]

After seeing that WoW's Mac client will pretty much take as much memory as I can throw at it I'm thinking of getting some more RAM. Macfixit.com.au and macsales.com both have cheap RAM, I can get a full 8gb for the same price as Apple sells a single 2gb DIMM for and I'm actually considering 12gb or even 16gb from one of these stores because the price is so cheap.

Is there anything I need to know about reliability or performance before I buy some cheap Mac Pro RAM?

 

[philipma1957]

RETURN POLICY. I buy non apple ram all the time. My success rates are 99 percent plus. I have bad stick from more then 100


http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=912 for 2010 quad



http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=1339 for 2010 hex


both of these should be good what is your machine type? note the hex ram will work in the quad machine. USA prices are a little lower but shipping is difficult to AU from USA

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/85MP3W4M12GK/

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/1333D3W4M12K/





these work and are 3 for 165 USD

HEX CORE:

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php...B-ECC-Server-Memory-For-Apple-Mac-Pro-Systems




QUAD CORE BELOW

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php...B-ECC-Server-Memory-For-Apple-Mac-Pro-Systems

 

[DELTAsnake]

Thanks Phillip, I'll put in an order tomorrow morning. I'll either get the ones you mentioned or these ones for my Quad Nahalem Mac Pro http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=913

I guess if I get the 16gb 4x4gb I can always take out a stick to get tripple channel instead of dual channel if my games in both OSX and Windows 7 use less than 12gb of RAM, but I bet when Crysis 2 comes out it will take all 16gb.

 

[philipma1957]

yeah they look good and buying the 4 sticks won't hurt the wallet too much more then 3 sticks.