whats the fastest ram for my 2011 mbp?

[HRodMusic]

so i want to upgrade it to 8gb, any ideas?

so i was looking at this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231299

 

[bearcats087]

some people say 1600mhz ram will work

 

[Maschil]

so i want to upgrade it to 8gb, any ideas?

so i was looking at this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231299

wait a little bit to you find one on sale for 35-45... or even try amazon... i got the corsair... one from new egg.

 

[alust2013]

That would work. You could get 1600MHz if you have one of the higher end quads, but it doesn't really provide a noticeable speed difference.

 

[DWBurke811]

RAM that's "for Apple computers" means nothing, other than it being more expensive. When they were PPC based maybe, but today it's meaningless.

 

[pingfan59]

the kingston HyperX ram at 1600mhz worked for me. Just do a search for 1600mhz ram and there is a topic showing which one to get as I believe it was said that there are two different ones from kingston and only one works with the early 2011 MBP with 2.2 or 2.3ghz quad cores.

 

[HRodMusic]

i actually go this one, saw it cheap and decent =D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295

what do u guys think did i make a mistake?

 

[grahamnp]

Should be just fine. You don't gain much speed (if at all) by going to 1600mhz and you don't lose any by going with slower RAM. 1333 is the stock speed and is perfect. I don't remember exactly how high the CPU will support but I think its 1333 and anything more gets clocked down anyway.

 

[HRodMusic]

Should be just fine. You don't gain much speed (if at all) by going to 1600mhz and you don't lose any by going with slower RAM. 1333 is the stock speed and is perfect. I don't remember exactly how high the CPU will support but I think its 1333 and anything more gets clocked down anyway.

btw i heard upgrading my ram will up my gpu from 256 to 512, could that be true?

 

[awer25]

i actually go this one, saw it cheap and decent =D

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295

what do u guys think did i make a mistake?

I've got that same set and it works great.

 

[snaky69]

btw i heard upgrading my ram will up my gpu from 256 to 512, could that be true?

If you have a 13" pro or are using the Intel 3000HD on a 15 or 17 inch, the Intel card will allocate itself more RAM when 8Gb is present.

You will not notice any improvement in gaming or other graphics intensive tasks with that increase in video RAM, as that is not the bottleneck on that crappy integrated card. So even if it had 3 gigs of VRAM, it would still suck as much.

 

[HRodMusic]

If you have a 13" pro or are using the Intel 3000HD on a 15 or 17 inch, the Intel card will allocate itself more RAM when 8Gb is present.

You will not notice any improvement in gaming or other graphics intensive tasks with that increase in video RAM, as that is not the bottleneck on that crappy integrated card. So even if it had 3 gigs of VRAM, it would still suck as much.

oh im using AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB graphics, so it dont apply to me?

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I've got that same set and it works great.

oh thats good to know =D im so exited i get it tomorrow!!

 

[Vudoo]

the kingston HyperX ram at 1600mhz worked for me. Just do a search for 1600mhz ram and there is a topic showing which one to get as I believe it was said that there are two different ones from kingston and only one works with the early 2011 MBP with 2.2 or 2.3ghz quad cores.

I have the same and it works fine.

 

[snaky69]

oh im using AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB graphics, so it dont apply to me?

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oh thats good to know =D im so exited i get it tomorrow!!

No, it doesn't.

 

[HRodMusic]

No, it doesn't.

mmh that sucks i guess its fine lol

 

[Lennyvalentin]

You will not notice any improvement in gaming or other graphics intensive tasks with that increase in video RAM, as that is not the bottleneck on that crappy integrated card. So even if it had 3 gigs of VRAM, it would still suck as much.

That depends on how much video RAM the game wants to use. A game with a lot of textures (like most modern titles, really) would run faster with more video memory, as it wouldn't have to swap textures in and out of its allocated area. This would be helpful in first-person perspective games where a snap turn could bring surfaces into view that weren't previously visible and thus needs to be swapped, leading to jerky frame updates...

Also, faster RAM would mean better performance for the Intel HD 3000 GPU, and 1600MHz RAM today is not expensive.

 

[HRodMusic]

That depends on how much video RAM the game wants to use. A game with a lot of textures (like most modern titles, really) would run faster with more video memory, as it wouldn't have to swap textures in and out of its allocated area. This would be helpful in first-person perspective games where a snap turn could bring surfaces into view that weren't previously visible and thus needs to be swapped, leading to jerky frame updates...

Also, faster RAM would mean better performance for the Intel HD 3000 GPU, and 1600MHz RAM today is not expensive.

you think i should return the 1333 ram i got and get the 1600mhz one?

 

[IllIllIll]

Also, faster RAM would mean better performance for the Intel HD 3000 GPU, and 1600MHz RAM today is not expensive.

Wrong, unless you have an i7 (and questionable even then), or you are overclocking the CPU.