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Corsair 16GB Memory $420.00 now in stock

xpcker said:
Is not that the world is bigger than me. tomshardware have great comparisson of 8-16gb ram benchmarks.


The point is that, if you have a macbook pro, according to my perspective, buying it 16gb ram is worthless because the processor cant keep up to it.

YOU CAN BE THE PRO AS THE HELL U WANT (or call it as u like), but, for me, spending between 60 and 400 bucks just for waiting on 1 hour and 50 min of encoding its worthless. the program will work as fast as the processor and the arquitechture of the management of proc/ram can do.

if i had the bucks to have a xeon 8 core, 16gb justifies, otherwise, its just a troll conduct and who has it bigger thing.
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You must be stupid or a n00b.

the CPU is going to sleep almost all the time, the ONLY time the CPU is actually doing consistent work, is in video rendering or editing. and in that case, 16GB of RAM would be amazing. especially considering how big HD movies are...

what the hell are you encoding that only takes an hour an a half?

sounds like you're muxing, or converting, NOT encoding.

H.264@1080P takes roughly 3 days to encode... depending on hardware of course.
 
Wow, some crazy opinions in here. The extra RAM is rarely about performance increase, it is about what is possible with your machine. Like one of the earlier posters I use VMs extensively for work.

I do development work with a Microsoft product called SharePoint, it is rather resource intensive. As a rule I need a 500MB VM acting as a domain controller and a Windows Server 2008 VM with at least 8GB running SharePoint/SQL/Visual Studio etc.
So I upgraded with a single 8GB stick for now to 12GB on my MBP.

This has allowed me to work whereas with only 8GB it was pretty painful if not impossible. The cost? peanuts compared to not being able to work remotely on a laptop.

I could of course go with a Dell or similar with 4 ram slots but then I woud own a Dell. At home I use an iMac with 4x4GB which is obviously cheaper.
 
madonionrings said:
AElink process. If you don't know what that is, you don't need 16gig.
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Haha yeah.

I've been waiting for the price to drop so I can finally unload the full power of the i7. Sucks seeing only 3 cores being used and seeing memory at 100% capacity.

With 16gb i'll be able to use 6 cores with each core having 2gb ram available (more than enough for the 720p work I do). Ofc I'm leaving 2 cores and 4gb for OS/other apps.

Can't wait:D
 
Wait another month and it'll drop another $100 and hopefully get closer and closer to being in line with 2x4gb sticks.
 
Acidsplat said:
Apple has a history of claiming their computers can handle less RAM than they really do.


The 2011 iMacs can go all the way to 32GB of RAM, but Apple only sells it in 16GB configurations.
I believe all of the 2011 MacBook Pros support 16GB.
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Sam2lucky13 said:
same can be said about the 2011 15" but 16gb runs like a top
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You may be correct... all I know is that on the official website it says max is 8GB. I fail to understand why they would say that when it can indeed support 16GB or as you claim, 32GB for the iMacs.
 
Ant.honey said:
I paid $879.99 on Sept. 12th. I see that today it is at $729.99...

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I'm going to get on OWC's live chat and explain that in about 2 weeks the price of the ram I bought is $150 less. I also just got another order from them last night. Wonder if they'll do anything for me.
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why should they?:confused:

Ram always goes down in price. You should know this
 
dukebound85 said:
why should they?:confused:

Ram always goes down in price. You should know this
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Except when there is a water shortage in Asia, then watch the price skyrocket.

But yes, just because you bought it two week ago is no excuse to get a refund/cashback.

Being on the bleeding edge has its downsides, mostly being broke all the time.
 
When they get down to $100 a pair I'll buy them for absolutely no reason. I don't even run VMs or anything. Everyone on macrumors will have a heart attack
 
saberahul said:
You may be correct... all I know is that on the official website it says max is 8GB. I fail to understand why they would say that when it can indeed support 16GB or as you claim, 32GB for the iMacs.
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Because the larger DIMMs probably weren't available when the spec was defined, and Apple historically hasn't reissued new specs on legacy hardware as technology changes. For me it goes back to my Mac Pro (1.1) actually supporting 32gb of memory versus the factory spec'ed 16gb. He is definitely correct.
 
Between Lion's "Safari Web Content", the Adobe CS5.5 apps, and Aperture, I'm running out of memory w/o having it paged out to the swap file and as long as I have a HDD, it's killing my performance, so.. I simply need to pony up & get a 16GB kit for my 2011 MBP. Does anyone have any thoughts for/against these three?

OWC's never steered me wrong, price is down to $567.99 as of this writing:

Then again, in the past few weeks, Crucial, from whom I've bought numerous products in the past, posted this for a heck of a lot cheaper:

Last, but not least, there's Corsair:
 
Luman said:
Between Lion's "Safari Web Content", the Adobe CS5.5 apps, and Aperture, I'm running out of memory w/o having it paged out to the swap file and as long as I have a HDD, it's killing my performance, so.. I simply need to pony up & get a 16GB kit for my 2011 MBP. Does anyone have any thoughts for/against these three?

OWC's never steered me wrong, price is down to $567.99 as of this writing:

Then again, in the past few weeks, Crucial, from whom I've bought numerous products in the past, posted this for a heck of a lot cheaper:

Last, but not least, there's Corsair:
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Well, the good thing about OWC is that the ram is thoroughly tested and guaranteed for life. What is the warranty on the Crucial? The Corsair stuff is budget - I've not had good luck in the past with budget ram.
 
Ant.honey said:
Well, the good thing about OWC is that the ram is thoroughly tested and guaranteed for life. What is the warranty on the Crucial? The Corsair stuff is budget - I've not had good luck in the past with budget ram.
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Crucial has a "Limited Lifetime Warranty" that, at first read, is much stricter than OWC's. It's your run-of-the-mill kind of warranty, taken from:

http://www.crucial.com/company/termsofsale.aspx

Terms of Limited Lifetime Warranty: Crucial warrants to the original end customer of its products specified below that its products are free from defects in material and workmanship affecting form, fit, and function except with respect to refurbished products, video cards, or non-Crucial-branded products or software. Any claim alleging that any product fails to conform to the foregoing warranty may be made only by the customer who purchased such product and only while such customer owns such product. Crucial, at its option, will repair, replace, or provide a credit or refund of either the original purchase price or fair market value, whichever is lower, of any product that is determined by Crucial to be defective.​

OWC's, on the other hand, is a heck of lot more "user friendly"; the memory is covered by a "Lifetime Advanced Replacement Warranty" policy and unlike Crucial, the warranty extends to a third party should you chose to sell the memory to someone else, with the exception that it becomes a "standard Lifetime Replacement Warranty" upon re-sale. Full read here:


As for Corsair, figured.. 1 down, 1 to go.
 
What is this bitching about 16 RAM being a waste of money? I'd agree if it was 1K USD but you can get 16GB RAM for less then 300 bucks. Thats not a lot of money. A lot of people here can earn that back easily.
 
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I notice that when I look for 16gb ram, the clock speed only goes to 1333mhz, is 1600 not available yet?
 
KevinRightWing said:
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I notice that when I look for 16gb ram, the clock speed only goes to 1333mhz, is 1600 not available yet?
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I haven't seen any 8 GB 1600 SO-DIMMs. I checked corsairs website, and found 1600 and even 1866 versions of the 2x4GB sets. It seems 8GB RAM bars with 1600 speed are not yet available.
 
www.frys.com has 8GB 1333Mhz Corsair SO-DIMMs that work with the 2011 MBP's.

I just picked up two sticks for my 17 inch for $84.99 a piece!!!

16GB for UNDER $200! Sale is on thru 12/8/2011.

Got get em guys and gals.
 
To the people saying you will never use that much memory...I remember back in 01' when someone told me I would never need more than 6gigs of spinning hard disc drive space...I also keenly remember when 1GB of RAM was the ****...future proofing is always a good idea. That said I would never spend that much on RAM at the moment..but if you can pay for it, and if you think you will benefit..do it!

EDIT: Look at my attachment...14gigs of page outs with 6gigs of RAM. I'm not even a "pro" user...I'm just a massive massive power user that expects my computer to hold up when I throw the kitchen sink at it. That's all :D :D
 

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One more question:

Since system bus is 1600mhz, isn't that the maximum speed you could purchase and install?
 
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