Mac Pro 2010 Quad Ram advice

[costabunny]

Well I am close to getting the Quad (2.8) 2010 model.

I think I will get the base model (3GB) and add a 2x4GB Crucial kit.

My question is this - is there any hit for keeping 2 x 1GB and putting the 2x4GB in (10GB Total)?

My uses are VM (XP for Corel Draw only) and CS5 in the mac side. I also need to do a lot of handbrake to convert my divx encodes to a more mac friendly format.

I may also bootcamp it for a bit of gaming but not too often.

Any advice here would be good chaps and chapessess.....

edit: My other option is to go for the 12GB (4GB x3) kit from crucial - any performance diff over the 2x4GB + 2x1GB ?

 

[highdefw]

I know After Effects would benefit greatly from 12gb of ram. I've heard that AE works well if there are at least 3gb ram for EACH core.

 

[VirtualRain]

Well I am close to getting the Quad (2.8) 2010 model.

I think I will get the base model (3GB) and add a 2x2GB Crucial kit.

My question is this - is there any hit for keeping 2 x 1GB and putting the 2x2GB in (10GB Total)?

My uses are VM (XP for Corel Draw only) and CS5 in the mac side. I also need to do a lot of handbrake to convert my divx encodes to a more mac friendly format.

I may also bootcamp it for a bit of gaming but not too often.

Any advice here would be good chaps and chapessess.....

edit: My other option is to go for the 12GB (4GB x3) kit from crucial - any performance diff over the 2x2GB + 2x1GB ?

Isn't 2 x 1GB and 2 x 2GB going to be 6GB (not 10)?

At any rate, no, it shouldn't be a problem... you will get 3GB per channel with two channel interleaving which will work just fine.

 

[costabunny]

Ooops - meant 2x4GB kit (damnit I am tired...)