RAM of MACBOOK PRO!

[EddieMac]

I am planning on upgrading my ram for my Mac. Currently I have a 2.4GHz 4GB Ram (2x2 2GB Ram) 13' 250GB HD, I was wondering if i purchase one 4GB Ram can I put that in with one of the other 2GB Ram to make it 6GB in total?

-Thanks a lot

 

[C64]

Yes, no problem. If you have matched pairs though (2x2, or 2x4) benchmarks will say that the performance is slightly better, but in practice I very much doubt that you'll ever notice that.

 

[EddieMac]

Yes, no problem. If you have matched pairs though (2x2, or 2x4) benchmarks will say that the performance is slightly better, but in practice I very much doubt that you'll ever notice that.

Thanks, would there be a increase in speed/performance at the slightest?.

 

[warrena]

Thanks, would there be a increase in speed/performance at the slightest?.

Going from 4GB to 6GB would give you a boost if you were running low on memory. They extra memory will allow you to run more programs concurrently as well as it will keep them in inactive memory and load faster if you have extra ram. How is your current memory utilization as related to free or inactive memory? Typically if your page outs are high then more memory will help speed things up as you will probably swap less.

 

[TZRaceR6]

Answer = Yes. Look at my sig.

 

[DoFoT9]

I am planning on upgrading my ram for my Mac. Currently I have a 2.4GHz 4GB Ram (2x2 2GB Ram) 13' 250GB HD, I was wondering if i purchase one 4GB Ram can I put that in with one of the other 2GB Ram to make it 6GB in total?

-Thanks a lot

what year MBP do you have? some are not compatible with 8GB RAM. please specify

there will be a performance loss upgradaing to 6GB, and no performance increase going to 8GB (talking read/write speeds here etc).

 

[EddieMac]

what year MBP do you have? some are not compatible with 8GB RAM. please specify

there will be a performance loss upgradaing to 6GB, and no performance increase going to 8GB (talking read/write speeds here etc).

I have the latest 13.3 inch 2.4GHz 250GB 4GB Ram model, does this mean if i upgrade to 6GB there will be a performance lost?

 

[EddieMac]

Answer = Yes. Look at my sig.

How is your MB performance/speed wise. Are you happy with the upgrade?

 

[EddieMac]

Going from 4GB to 6GB would give you a boost if you were running low on memory. They extra memory will allow you to run more programs concurrently as well as it will keep them in inactive memory and load faster if you have extra ram. How is your current memory utilization as related to free or inactive memory? Typically if your page outs are high then more memory will help speed things up as you will probably swap less.

Free 2.64GB
Wired: 714.1MB
Active: 597.4MB
Inactive: 88.3MB
Used: 1.37GB

Specs of MBP: 4GB Ram 250GB HD 2.4GHz Core 2

 

[tflournoy95]

what year MBP do you have? some are not compatible with 8GB RAM. please specify

there will be a performance loss upgradaing to 6GB, and no performance increase going to 8GB (talking read/write speeds here etc).

how do you work that out? care to elaborate?

 

[EddieMac]

how do you work that out? care to elaborate?

If i do chose to upgrade from 4gb to 6gb, will there be a performance loss?

 

[DoFoT9]

I have the latest 13.3 inch 2.4GHz 250GB 4GB Ram model, does this mean if i upgrade to 6GB there will be a performance lost?

how do you work that out? care to elaborate?

If i do chose to upgrade from 4gb to 6gb, will there be a performance loss?

ahh ok. there will be a slight performance loss due to them not being "paired". technical terms etc - not that you will notice unless you do synthetic benchmarks, on my iMac iwas about a 5% loss in performance.

Free 2.64GB
Wired: 714.1MB
Active: 597.4MB
Inactive: 88.3MB
Used: 1.37GB

Specs of MBP: 4GB Ram 250GB HD 2.4GHz Core 2

it doesnt appear as though you need any more memory - in Activity Monitor.app, what is your page ins/page outs/swap file size?

 

[EddieMac]

ahh ok. there will be a slight performance loss due to them not being "paired". technical terms etc - not that you will notice unless you do synthetic benchmarks, on my iMac iwas about a 5% loss in performance.


it doesnt appear as though you need any more memory - in Activity Monitor.app, what is your page ins/page outs/swap file size?

Page Ins: 269.6MB
Page Outs: 352.5MB
Swap Used: 14.6MB

*Note* I plan on installing office 08' will this change anything drastically? And how much of a performance loss be if i do go with a 2GB and 4GB (6GB Ram) upgrade, will it be significant?

 

[TopHatPlus]

hey i was running a 2 gb and a 500 mb ddr2 ram in my macbook for 4 years =D haha worked very well with 2.5 gb of ram >_< lol i upgraded today to 2x2 with a total of 4 gb and i noticed a decent speed increase =D and i think the other guy meant that some computers are designed for a maximum amount of ram like mine for instance if i upgraded to 8 gb it would not perform better because it is designed for 4 gb so it would use 50% of it and just obsolete the rest >_< hehe but it should work swell =D

 

[DoFoT9]

Page Ins: 269.6MB
Page Outs: 352.5MB
Swap Used: 14.6MB

*Note* I plan on installing office 08' will this change anything drastically? And how much of a performance loss be if i do go with a 2GB and 4GB (6GB Ram) upgrade, will it be significant?

ahh is that all. your RAM is hardly being pushed at all

you will see a 5%-10% loss in benchmarks, in the real world - you will not notice it.

 

[EddieMac]

ahh is that all. your RAM is hardly being pushed at all

you will see a 5%-10% loss in benchmarks, in the real world - you will not notice it.

lol yea thats all. I bought this MBP a week ago (upgraded from white macbook 08 model) I want to make sure i don't slow down. I want to upgrade the ram to 6GB but there saying because they are not the same (2+4=6) there will be a slow down? should i go upto 8GB? and any tips on making more room on the HD. I already have all the apps (AppZapper, Onyx, iFreemem) i disabled dashboard and deleted unnecessary widgets/apps. Any aother advice to save room for the future?

 

[DoFoT9]

lol yea thats all. I bought this MBP a week ago (upgraded from white macbook 08 model) I want to make sure i don't slow down. I want to upgrade the ram to 6GB but there saying because they are not the same (2+4=6) there will be a slow down? should i go upto 8GB? and any tips on making more room on the HD. I already have all the apps (AppZapper, Onyx, iFreemem) i disabled dashboard and deleted unnecessary widgets/apps. Any aother advice to save room for the future?

wow. you seem quite OCD about this - nothing wrong with that though of course. in all honesty, you dont really have to worry about much. make sure you have enough free HDD space and you will be fine. dont install apps that you wont require.

the upgrade to 8GB RAM is *only* $227, is that too much for you?

 

[EddieMac]

wow. you seem quite OCD about this - nothing wrong with that though of course. in all honesty, you dont really have to worry about much. make sure you have enough free HDD space and you will be fine. dont install apps that you wont require.

the upgrade to 8GB RAM is *only* $227, is that too much for you?

what site was that price on?

 

[DoFoT9]

what site was that price on?

OWC

 

[alust2013]

Judging by your posted usage, you really don't need to upgrade your RAM. If you don't use all 4 gigs, 6 or 8 won't get you anything more than you already have. Always remember, more RAM does not necessarily equal faster computer. It only does if you are maxing out your RAM and have a lot of page outs (writing memory to the hard drive) The stats you posted showed over 50% of your RAM free, so you should be good with 4GB. And to answer your question about office, that takes up very little memory, so don't worry about it.

 

[TZRaceR6]

Latest benchmarks (XBench and Geekbench - Free 32bit version) on my 13":

XBench - First run with Safari and torrent running in background:

Results 198.85
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.4 (10F569)
Physical RAM 6144 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type KINGSTON SNVP325S2128GB
CPU Test 187.09
GCD Loop 311.90 16.44 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 148.92 3.54 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 123.31 4.07 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 298.51 51.98 Mops/sec
Thread Test 324.69
Computation 357.99 7.25 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 297.06 12.78 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 182.84
System 228.44
Allocate 351.79 1.29 Malloc/sec
Fill 188.73 9176.31 MB/sec
Copy 200.35 4138.22 MB/sec
Stream 152.42
Copy 150.59 3110.42 MB/sec
Scale 149.39 3086.39 MB/sec
Add 155.50 3312.44 MB/sec
Triad 154.36 3302.11 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 158.22
Line 144.55 9.62 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 151.90 45.35 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 155.21 12.65 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 172.52 4.35 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 170.63 10.67 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 161.64
Spinning Squares 161.64 205.05 frames/sec
User Interface Test 218.01
Elements 218.01 1.00 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 237.24
Sequential 160.75
Uncached Write 275.74 169.30 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 280.43 158.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 67.25 19.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 354.50 178.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 452.61
Uncached Write 247.70 26.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 412.02 131.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1244.61 8.82 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 636.95 118.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Geek bench, using same parametes:

Overall 32-bit geekbench score: 3581

Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6.4 (Build 10F569)
Model: MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2010)
Motherboard: Apple Inc. Mac-F222BEC8
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8800 @ 2.66GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.66 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 3.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 1.06 GHz
Memory: 6.00 GB
Memory Type: 1067 MHz DDR3
SIMD: 1
BIOS: Apple Inc. MBP71.88Z.0039.B05.1003251322
Processor Model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8800 @ 2.66GHz
Processor Cores: 2

Integer (Score: 2955)
Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 1878, , 82.5 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 3538, , 145.0 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 2058, , 6.58 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3789, , 12.4 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1852, , 7.61 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3589, , 14.3 MB/sec
Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1896, , 15.7 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3370, , 28.4 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1655, , 27.8 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3205, , 52.3 Mpixels/sec
Lua single-threaded scalar -- 3043, , 1.17 Mnodes/sec
Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 5590, , 2.15 Mnodes/sec

Floating Point (Score: 5266)
Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1981, , 1.32 Gflops
Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3727, , 2.44 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 3623, , 1.75 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 6954, , 3.17 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 2894, , 3.47 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 6454, , 6.71 Gflops
LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 783, , 697.3 Mflops
LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1547, , 1.36 Gflops
Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 4326, , 646.1 Mflops
Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 6252, , 1.16 Gflops
Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 5580, , 13.0 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 10063, , 23.2 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 6989, , 5.53 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 12551, , 9.87 Mpixels/sec

Memory (Score: 2641)
Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 3429, , 4.20 GB/sec
Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2603, , 1.78 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 2358, , 8.80 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 2421, , 5.01 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 2397, , 2.47 GB/sec

Stream (Score: 1758)
Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1755, , 2.40 GB/sec
Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 1854, , 2.40 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 1725, , 2.24 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 1818, , 2.45 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 1694, , 2.56 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 1875, , 2.61 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1906, , 2.63 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1440, , 2.70 GB/sec