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Question on RAM and FB-DIMMs
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<blockquote data-quote="Mister Pie" data-source="post: 676568" data-attributes="member: 58810"><p>Hi all,</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mister Pie, post: 676568, member: 58810"] 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! [/QUOTE]
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