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I am wondering what the best place to buy G5 iMac memory online... and how easy is it to get into the computer? Thanks! :headphone
bassplayrr said:To add to this question, does anyone know the EXACT brand of memory used in the iMac? I have a 20" model on its way to me right now with 512Mb aboard and would like to add an adition 512Mb. I'm a big fan of matched pairs when possible.
-Chris
bmwstormer said:Is any brand of SDRAM OK for use in an iMac?
bmwstormer said:I am wondering what the best place to buy G5 iMac memory online... and how easy is it to get into the computer? Thanks! :headphone
brendan67 said:hi
i disagree with some of the earlier posts ram is ram
as long as its the same spec generic stuff works just fine
in a mac. lets face it your mac is not gonna explode cos you fitted
a third party brand of memory. if a pee cee can use it then a mac can.
though i would always use matched pairs.
as for fitting its a piece of cake on the imac g5 ( if i can do it
anybody can)
two phillips screws ,slide off back panel, slot memory on board
- no problemo
regards
Mr Bobbins said:I got a imac G5 a week ago, installed a 1024 MB chip from the cheepist deal that i could find on the net. Did a full system check and everything was sweet, worked great for a few days and then the computer went completely dead, did nothing at all. As the computer was only a week old I didn't test it myself to see what was wrong and just took it back to the apple dealer (where it has been for a week now). My apple dealer blamed it on the ram that i had installed, is this possible? the ram was made by 'whitelake'.
flonejek said:If the latency on the ram was slightly high it can throw out the clock cycle, causing your mac to hang but otherwise when u take it out it should be fine. I doubt they would blame it on you because of that, apple service has always been very good (IMHO)..., also there is a chance that it could have fryed your northbridge as I have never heard of whitelake ram and it might be dodgy...
the northbridge is the bit that connects the cpu, ram, and graphics card...