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Corsair High End MBP Memory
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The gskill memory runs just fine for me on the latest mbp pro early 2008 penryn. I'm in bootcamp now with windows. Win XP 32bit says I have 3 GB of RAM.
I ran the rightmark Memory Analyzer tool. Attached are some screenshots and html file with results.
Overall, I love the 17" hi-res matte screen, and the system is fast. Still trying to figure out all the tweaks and all. Sure is fun. I think I have not felt this jazzed about a computer since the win95 upgrade from dos. Upgrading to win98, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista. They all felt the same. Sure there was a cool bone here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary new. os X feels fun.
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Thanks for the data scott; what it is reporting is the SPD information from the chips - the identity that is burned into them -- that is good as far as it goes -- I don't see any results showing tested latency figures - it's all N/A,
We would expect a CL4 chip to report CL4 from its SPD. However, we still need to know is the Mac taking advantage of it, and what is the effect on performance?
A sidebyside test against 4 Gb of CL5 RAM on the same machine with the same test program would help show the results.
(Yes, I know that's part of what Corsair's white paper has -- I'm looking for independent results from a current model Mac)
The Corsairs won't start arriving in Canada for another week or 2
We would expect a CL4 chip to report CL4 from its SPD. However, we still need to know is the Mac taking advantage of it, and what is the effect on performance?
A sidebyside test against 4 Gb of CL5 RAM on the same machine with the same test program would help show the results.
(Yes, I know that's part of what Corsair's white paper has -- I'm looking for independent results from a current model Mac)
The Corsairs won't start arriving in Canada for another week or 2
My guess is that the difference would be imperceptible. In day to day work, the machine is idle or waiting on the hard drive for so much of the time that a few percent difference in RAM performance will make a tiny difference.