Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think yours is a 2008 which has more expensive memory than my 2009 http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory john ________________________________________ Where did you get the RAM? I bought Crucial ram, which is a little more expensive than some, but it is American made, and always works...I've seen too many people buying no-name ram that caused crashes, kernel panics, etc. I just checked Crucial.com and they still want $299 for 8gb of RAM for my model of the Mac Pro. -- Chris Crawford On 8/12/12 11:26 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: >My Mac Pro is a later model and it was $350US for 32GB (4x 8GB)! Can >still fit another 32GB.... > >john >________________________________________ > > >When I got 8 gig of RAM in two 4-gig sticks for my Mac Pro last year, they >were nearly $300. The Mac Pro gets so hot inside that the RAM for it >requires huge heatsinks on both sides that stick out a half inch on each >side. No other computer uses those types of RAM heatsinks, so they're >expensive. > >-- >Chris Crawford > >On 8/12/12 10:33 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: > >>Note: 8GB of RAM ( 2 sticks of 4GB each) is now about $50 or less. Pop >>out >>the old ones, drop in the new ones. Easy, cheap and >> >>Of course, you MAC guys have your own price points. >> >>Frank Filippone >>Red735i at earthlink.net >> >>Somewhat on topic, has anyone tried an SSD drive as a scratch drive for >>CS >>to improve performance? >>Thanks, >>Bob >> >>