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Hi all,
I just recently bought myself a Mac Pro. I have a relatively stupid question that I'm hoping I can get some quick assistance on: I bought the cheapest memory option (2 gb) since I found the price of adding RAM from the Apple website to be prohibitively expensive. Now, from what I understand, and please do correct me if I'm totally wrong, the RAM needs to be added in pairs and in order to fully take advantage of the FB-DIMM configuration is to have at least 4 sticks installed. My question is, if I want to bring the total RAM of my system up to 4 gb, will I be able to just get 2 more 1 gb sticks, or do all 4 sticks have to be matched somehow? Also, if I wanted, say, 6 gb instead, would it matter if I had 2x1gb and 2x2gb?
Finally, I'm considering either crucial or OWC RAM. I'm assuming that unless I do have to match all 4 sticks, I'll be okay "mixing" apple RAM and other brand RAM, but please let me know if I'm wrong on that as well.
Thanks!
I just recently bought myself a Mac Pro. I have a relatively stupid question that I'm hoping I can get some quick assistance on: I bought the cheapest memory option (2 gb) since I found the price of adding RAM from the Apple website to be prohibitively expensive. Now, from what I understand, and please do correct me if I'm totally wrong, the RAM needs to be added in pairs and in order to fully take advantage of the FB-DIMM configuration is to have at least 4 sticks installed. My question is, if I want to bring the total RAM of my system up to 4 gb, will I be able to just get 2 more 1 gb sticks, or do all 4 sticks have to be matched somehow? Also, if I wanted, say, 6 gb instead, would it matter if I had 2x1gb and 2x2gb?
Finally, I'm considering either crucial or OWC RAM. I'm assuming that unless I do have to match all 4 sticks, I'll be okay "mixing" apple RAM and other brand RAM, but please let me know if I'm wrong on that as well.
Thanks!