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Will 3 GB ram work with unibody?

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catgo

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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
 
catgo said:
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
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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
 
ViciousShadow21 said:
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
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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?
 
catgo said:
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?
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ah i see. yes it would work but you would lose dual channel.
 
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.
 
NewMacbookPlz said:
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.
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Great news, I hope I don't have any more page outs with the 3GB and VMware fusion.

Thanks guys!
 
catgo said:
Great news, I hope I don't have any more page outs with the 3GB and VMware fusion.

Thanks guys!
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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.
 
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