RAM upgrade experiences

[squeeks]

For anyone who has upgraded using third party ram, what brand did you use and how does it seem to work for you?

I used OCZ because ive always had good luck with that but some of my stability issues ive been having with safari and FCS have made me wonder if i made a bad choice

 

[Marley]

i upgraded using crucial ram... no problems as of yet

 

[Gymnut]

I bought the 4GB kit from Other World Computing and have had no problems whatsoever. I've purchased ram from them for an iMac, Mirrored door G4, and an aluminum Powerbook without problem.

 

[Maui]

I went with the 4 GB Crucial kit. 3 minutes to upgrade, no operating problems or issues at all.

 

[Toknee]

4GB, 2x2GB PC5300 kit from Buffalo, bought from Micro Center $135 each.

Works great, no issues.

 

[masse]

I've upgraded my 15 inch powerbook with Corsair Value Select, as well as a macbook.

Worked fine in both cases.

 

[ab2650]

MacBook Pro: Mushkin DDR2 667 SO-DIMM bought from Newegg.
Mac Pro: Crucial DDR2 667 ECC (with heat spreaders) also from Newegg.

No problems with either of them.

 

[Angrist]

I buy Cruicial ... almost exclusively*, for my macs and my HTPC.

Their stuff has never given me any hassle, any failures, nothing. The prices are rather competitive with other top tier memory brands too.


*Exception being PC133 for my tower, craigslist for 512MB sticks of ECC.

 

[harmonica01]

I buy Cruicial ... almost exclusively*, for my macs and my HTPC.

Their stuff has never given me any hassle, any failures, nothing. The prices are rather competitive with other top tier memory brands too.


*Exception being PC133 for my tower, craigslist for 512MB sticks of ECC.

ditto with crucial

Also keep your built in ram chips that came with the apple, that and drops aren't covered by warranty, if they show bad ram caused damage you're up a creek without water so can *cough* just put original ram chips back in...

However, with crucial since the days of blue&white g3s, i've never had any such problem

 

[squeeks]

i might have to swap these out for cruical sticks if i cant get these unexpected app failures to cease with a OS reinstall

 

[hexagon]

2gb of Kingston in my Macbook. Very Stable.