Will 3 GB ram work with unibody?

[catgo]

My brother has an extra stick of 2gb ddr3 204 pin of ram. Would it be useful to add it to my 2.4 Unibody MB which currently has 2gb. I need it mostly to run vmware fusion since right now every time I run it I get tons of page outs.

Thanks

 

[ViciousShadow21]

My brother has an extra stick of 2gb ddr3 204 pin of ram. Would it be useful to add it to my 2.4 Unibody MB which currently has 2gb. I need it mostly to run vmware fusion since right now every time I run it I get tons of page outs.

Thanks

dont you mean 4gb. 2+2=4 maybe im reading what you worte wrong but i dont think so.

i've said it before, you can never have to much RAM

 

[catgo]

dont you mean 4gb. 2+2=4 maybe im reading what you worte wrong but i dont think so.

i've said it before, you can never have to much RAM

Well as I mentioned, my brother has an extra 2gb stick that would work with my MB, since the macbook has 2 1gb sticks, I would end up with 3GB when I replaced one of the 1gb sticks for the extra 2gb stick, will they work though?

 

[ViciousShadow21]

Well as I mentioned, my brother has an extra 2gb stick that would work with my MB, since the macbook has 2 1gb sticks, I would end up with 3GB when I replaced one of the 1gb sticks for the extra 2gb stick, will they work though?

ah i see. yes it would work but you would lose dual channel.

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

Yes, you can load 3GB of DDR3 RAM into a unibody macbook, you just won't have the "benefit" of dual-channel RAM since they aren't a matched pair; but many benchmarks suggest that the effect of more RAM is greater than the effect of dual-channel with less RAM.

I'd wager you'll never notice the loss of dual channel day-to-day, but will see the increased RAM as a performance boost.

 

[catgo]

Yes, you can load 3GB of DDR3 RAM into a unibody macbook, you just won't have the "benefit" of dual-channel RAM since they aren't a matched pair; but many benchmarks suggest that the effect of more RAM is greater than the effect of dual-channel with less RAM.

I'd wager you'll never notice the loss of dual channel day-to-day, but will see the increased RAM as a performance boost.

Great news, I hope I don't have any more page outs with the 3GB and VMware fusion.

Thanks guys!

 

[ViciousShadow21]

Great news, I hope I don't have any more page outs with the 3GB and VMware fusion.

Thanks guys!

yea man good luck. oh ppl say it doesnt matter but i have read posts that say when upgrading RAM put the larger of the two sticks on the outside.