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Crucial or Apple Memory?

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neda

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I'm looking to add more memory to my dual 1.8 G5, should I get crucial or buy apple memory. I really dont want any problems after adding more memory, of course
thanks.
 
Apple don't actually manufacture their own memory. They just charge you a HUGE premium for buying it form them.
eBay is the place for memory. Ensure the type of memory that you need and start hunting for some new chip auctions.

I bought a gig of new, unopened Kingston memory for £50, more recently a sealed 300GB Maxtor 150-SATA HDD for £60.
 
Newegg sells Crucial memory cheaper then Crucial does.

But just about any ram that matches specs will work.

And dont buy Apple Ram, it is way overpriced.

I bought my 1Gb stick from newgg and it works great. Mine is KingMax, which had many reviews on newegg, and it works great. Right now KingMax is more expensive then the Crucial on newegg, but when i bought mine was on sale when i bought which made it about 115 shipped.
 
prostuff1 said:
Newegg sells Crucial memory cheaper then Crucial does.
But just about any ram that matches specs will work.
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Yeah, but NewEgg sells the Crucial generic and doesn't guarantee compatibility.

The problem you have is, there is NO way for you to tell if the RAM matches the full specification including SPD settings, so if you're not buying RAM that is guaranteed by the seller to be compatible, then you're on your own for testing.

It also makes a big difference which Mac you have. So if someone says their Kingmax worked in a PowerMac G5, that's no indication whether it will work in an iMac G5 (or indeed, if the Kingmax, or whichever, is the same internal design today as they bought last month)
 
Uma888 said:
iv just ordered :

Part # CT477889 (crucial)

DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64

I hope iv ordered the right thing :eek:
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Cas Latency 4? Very slow by memory standards.
 
MacRumorUser said:
Cas Latency 4? Very slow by memory standards.
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No, CL4 is the standard latency for DDR-2. Just look at any of the Mac memory vendor sites for the new DDR-2 RAM, they are all CL4. http://www.datamem.com/viewcat.asp_Q_C_E_1177
Sure it would be nice if faster DDR-2 could be manufactured, but right now the only CL3 DDR-2 533 RAM is high priced gamer RAM, and we don't know yet if the Mac will run faster on CL3 than CL4. Barefeats has done one test that suggests maybe, but the results are within the margin of error.

This is the right RAM for the new iMac G5 iSight 1.9 or 2.1 GHz machines.
Uma - don't send it back, now that it's on the way you may as well try it.

Unless you have the older iMac G5 1.8 or 2.0 machine that takes PC3200 RAM of course, then you have the wrong part.

Uma, It would help if you specified which iMac machine you have in your signature line, then we could give better recommendations.
 
CanadaRAM said:
No, CL4 is the standard latency for DDR-2. Just look at any of the Mac memory vendor sites for the new DDR-2 RAM, they are all CL4. http://www.datamem.com/viewcat.asp_Q_C_E_1177
Sure it would be nice if faster DDR-2 could be manufactured, but right now the only CL3 DDR-2 533 RAM is high priced gamer RAM, and we don't know yet if the Mac will run faster on CL3 than CL4. Barefeats has done one test that suggests maybe, but the results are within the margin of error.

This is the right RAM for the new iMac G5 iSight 1.9 or 2.1 GHz machines.
Uma - don't send it back, now that it's on the way you may as well try it.

Unless you have the older iMac G5 1.8 or 2.0 machine that takes PC3200 RAM of course, then you have the wrong part.

Uma, It would help if you specified which iMac machine you have in your signature line, then we could give better recommendations.
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*Claps Hands*

Thanks for your comments

I have a new iMac g5 (20"), and i wont be using it for ANY games, just basic video/Photo editing, and the usual surfing ect

i used crucials memory config tool to find the right ram

your right, i cant seem to find a lower latency RAM which is compatible with the iMac

TY for your help, i was going to PM, but it looks like you have solved another Ram + iMac related issuse
 
neda said:
I'm looking to add more memory to my dual 1.8 G5, should I get crucial or buy apple memory. I really dont want any problems after adding more memory, of course
thanks.
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If you like wasting money or mentally insane then buy apple ram. If not then buy crucial ram, it is just good and has life time guarntee.
 
They don't even put an Apple stick on factory ram modules anymore, I certainly wouldn't pay that 150% premium on ram which apple won't even bother spending $0.01 to label as "Apple".
 
I've purchased Crucial memory for my PowerMac Dual 2.5 (not dual core). Never had a problem.
 
<sigh> I should just put this in my sig...I will never buy from Crucial again after finding out about their dynamic pricing games.

OWC is where I buy mine...
 
i've always used Crucial ram, cannot fault it at all.


even after a short spell in a bath for one stick...
 
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