Price of RAM
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- Atkinson
2x4GB ram is £350. seems expensive to me. I've not bought ram in a long time. Anyone bought any over the past year? What did you pay for how much?
- flashbender0
that is a lot - but firstly - what kind of RAM are you buying?
Type and speed?checkout crucial.com, you'll find it cheaper there
- Atkinson0
Nah Crucial is more. Strangely Crucial RAM at CBC is cheaper.
http://store.cbccomputers.com/pr…- Crucial website sells the same crucial ram at 390£Atkinson
- Atkinson0
this is ddr3, 2x4gb
Crucial CT2KIT51264BC1067 8GB PC3-8500 DDR3 Notebook Memory Kit
2 x 4GB RAM Chips / 1066MHz / 204-pin / SODIMM / Unbuffered / CL = 7 / 1.5V
- d_rek0
depends on a few things.... speed, type of ram, is it for notebook/desktop?
That does seem pretty expensive however. Make sure you're not buying some gimmicky bullshit with a heatsink and fan attached to it. Complete waste of your money.
- lukus_W0
Those two linked above wouldn't be suitable - they're for desktop, not notebook.
This one is: (£299.99)
- jaylarson0
For 8GB, 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-8500, it'll cost me $100 more to buy from Crucial than vs Amazon for Crucial ram. Makes sense as Amazon probably buys it in bulk.
- lukus_W0
Do you really need 8GB? Could you make do with 4?
- Seems like you're paying about £250 more for the second 4GBlukus_W
- I could have made do with a £300 Acer, I just like things to be as fast as possible.Atkinson
- I need more now, its never enough.moldero
- What OS are you running?404NotFound
- BuddhaHat0
Depends on how hardcore you wanna go lukus...
See the results on a 2009 MBP from here: http://macperformanceguide.com/O…
The 2009 MacBook Pro 17" (see review) accepts 8GB of memory, which results in a 34% drop in execution time from 237 to 156 seconds (as compared with 4GB). The tests results below are with the Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro and FirmTek/Seritek/2EN2 with two Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000.E Saturn 1TB hard drives in a striped RAID.
8GB: 156 seconds
6GB: 185 seconds = 18% longer
4GB: 237 seconds = 52% longerThe Hitachi Saturn E7K1000 1TB drives are excellent performers. The Western Digital RE-3 1TB drives came in at 161 seconds.
Anyone working with large Photoshop files should invest in at least 6GB memory, 8GB being preferable, as well as a fast scratch volume.
- comicsans0
£96 a stick at Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/produ…
- Atkinson0
Anyone need RAM?
BANK 0/DIMM0:Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1067 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47...
Serial Number: 0x2B60367DBANK 1/DIMM0:
Size: 2 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1067 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x484D54313235533642465238432D47...
Serial Number: 0x2B70364F
- moldero0
is this for mac or PC?
I have 9gb on my mac pro, but im just finding out its not compatible with a video card I just ordered because of the bus speed:http://store.apple.com/us/produc…
bullocks,
now I have to buy another 9gb atleast. so this thread came just in time.