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Mac Pro - Kingston Ram...anyone tried?

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meagsy

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Apr 20, 2007
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Hi guys, my Mac Pro arrived the other day, very exciting!
after reading the threads here I;ve decided to upgarde ram with an additional 4gig.
Question, anyone have anything to say about Kingston Ram?
Im in Australia & and so far they are the most reasonable price i can find.
Also if anyone knows of other reasonable price options for ram in Aus please chime in!

Thanks!
 
meagsy said:
Hi guys, my Mac Pro arrived the other day, very exciting!
after reading the threads here I;ve decided to upgarde ram with an additional 4gig.
Question, anyone have anything to say about Kingston Ram?
Im in Australia & and so far they are the most reasonable price i can find.
Also if anyone knows of other reasonable price options for ram in Aus please chime in!

Thanks!
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I have it in my Mac Pro 3.0 and it works fine.
 
As long as you get the KTA-MP667K2/2G or KTA-MP667K2/4G series they are good.

Do NOT get the KVR series FB-DIMM RAM, they are not MacPro compatible.

If the seller does not specifiy the exact Kingston part number, then move on to a seller that does.

You also want a seller that will give you a free (no shipping) replacement within the first 2 weeks if the RAM throws off too many recoverable ECC errors. The standard is 4 recoverable errors in 48 hours.
 
Thanks for the heads up regarding the type of ram.
I just checked and it is KTA type,
Is it at all an issue that there is no mention of the 'heat sinking' though?
most other types seem to refer to something about 'apple heat sink'...?
is that at all a problem?....my applications are solely Pro Audio if that makes any difference....
Thanks again!
 
How about Ram at OWC? They have very good price and their Ram look very good in term of high quality. It have a heat sink very similar to the one selling on Apple website.
 
meagsy said:
Thanks for the heads up regarding the type of ram.
I just checked and it is KTA type,
Is it at all an issue that there is no mention of the 'heat sinking' though?
most other types seem to refer to something about 'apple heat sink'...?
is that at all a problem?....my applications are solely Pro Audio if that makes any difference....
Thanks again!
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The heat sinks are equal to/better than the Apple heat sinks.

I have four of these 512MB modules in my Mac Pro and it works fine. Fans are no faster than before and no parity errors.

These do not work in the Intel Xserve. I tried in mine and it didn't like them for some reason.

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I bought KTA-MP667AK2/2G on eBay for 107.00$ shipped and was wondering if anyone else was using these modules and what they thought about them.
 
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