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Powermac purchase advice
lb969:
apple swaps brands cause its cheaper.
If its the correct pin, you should be fine.
Ram is Ram is Ram is Ram (unless its high end DDR2 or DDR3 Ram)
Matteh99:
Ram is your friend. I have 1.25 gig's in my iMac 1.6 ghz and it does fine. I Bet more would help but there are decreasing returns. You can check the activity monitor and if there are a ton of page in's / page out's then you need more ram. If you are doing somthing heavy duty and those numbers just start to count up like mad..
Ram is Ram is Ram most of the time. Some power books have issues with certian ram. The 1.25 ghz 15 inch does somthing call bus slewing which basicaly means that the bus speed changed dynamicly to reduce power. Some ram hates this and will make your life hell. I don't think there are any problems with the power mac's though.
The computer store I work for gets memory from Datamem.com. They have good prices and are good about returns. Any trustworthy place would probably be fine though.
Eric
jeph:
It's all about the Crucial memory.
Matteh99:
Ohh I just though of something.
Is the single 1.8 the first model or is it one of the later ones?
The first one one could hold 8 gig's of ram and had PCI X slots. The later ones are limited to 4 gigs of ram and had regular PCI slots.
I don't know if that matters to you or not but it is something to consider.
Eric
mosfet:
Ram it is!
Unfortunately I can't seem to find the earlier 1.8's. They're all the new ones.
If I found an older 1.8, I'd probably jump on that, but I'm not seeing them anywhere. And I'm betting eBay is not the best of places to get one.
Any thoughts on getting PMs off eBay?
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