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Is new iMac able to run 4gb of Ram??
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<blockquote data-quote="CanadaRAM" data-source="post: 258545" data-attributes="member: 15136"><p>Which one is faster depends on what you are doing. Matched RAM I would guess at 6 - 8% improvement. (35%-50% is the territory of XBench synthetic benchmarks, which are only one step removed from outright fiction) </p><p></p><p>But here's the thing... as soon as your programs and data consume more than the 2 Gb of physical RAM and you start paging to the hard drive, the memory performance plummets. At that point, having the extra 1 Gb RAM in the 3 Gb config is way faster. Until you open a bunch more programs and break the 3 Gb barrier that is, and then it all goes in a handbasket anyway.</p><p></p><p>So if you are doing digital audio, video, big Photoshop, etc. with programs and data sets that can use more than 2 Gb, then the unmatched 3 Gb is your ticket.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p>Trevor </p><p>CanadaRAM.com</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CanadaRAM, post: 258545, member: 15136"] Which one is faster depends on what you are doing. Matched RAM I would guess at 6 - 8% improvement. (35%-50% is the territory of XBench synthetic benchmarks, which are only one step removed from outright fiction) But here's the thing... as soon as your programs and data consume more than the 2 Gb of physical RAM and you start paging to the hard drive, the memory performance plummets. At that point, having the extra 1 Gb RAM in the 3 Gb config is way faster. Until you open a bunch more programs and break the 3 Gb barrier that is, and then it all goes in a handbasket anyway. So if you are doing digital audio, video, big Photoshop, etc. with programs and data sets that can use more than 2 Gb, then the unmatched 3 Gb is your ticket. Thanks Trevor CanadaRAM.com [/QUOTE]
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