LukeBird - Many thanks! (re: Mac Pro RAM)

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LukeBird said:

cyberface said:

Anyway, anyone know when Crucial are going to sell RAM for my new Mac Pro??? I'm dying here with only 2 GB. I need more RAM, and I'm not paying Apple prices. Crucial have *always* supplied all my RAM for all my Macs, they just don't have any in for the current-model Mac Pros

Yeah, just had a look at Crucial and no indication when their RAM will be released...
It's only basically server RAM though, so plenty of places to look.
It's DDR2 PC6400 800MHz, ECC Registered & fully buffered (as I'm sure you know! )
I found this here - http://www.thomann.de/gb/prod_AR_203888.html?partn...
in £ despite being .de....
Advertised as compatible with Mac Pro 2008

Thought I'd start up a new thread as a 'many thanks old chap' rather than drag up the old thread (especially since the RAM part was off topic).

Thomann, the German music company, have delivered my Mac Pro RAM today. Two 2GB sticks, with utterly HUGE extruded ally heatsinks. They are labelled 'mit extra großem Kühlkörper' which sounds cooler than 'with extra large heatsink'

Two things. Firstly installing RAM in a Mac Pro is beyond trivial - it took me 25 seconds and no tools, and I've been in bed sick for the last two days and have a fever and the shakes. No force or delicate movements required - if I could do it in my current state in 25 seconds then anyone can. Really *incredible* design - this is truly the best computer I've owned. Apple have really made a ing awesome machine here - it's stupidly fast, brilliantly engineered, utterly trivial to upgrade (disks were 2-minute jobs, RAM is 20-seconds, PCIe cards look easy too).

Secondly, the Thomann RAM runs cooler than the base 2 GB in the machine, by between 4 and 9 degrees Celcius. Whether this is because the top end of the RAM isn't being used (I've got about 3 GB free, I was swapping badly and having to unload apps when not using them, etc. beforehand), or whether the real hammer on the RAM (the Seti@Home work the box is doing) is mainly thrashing the first 2 GB, I don't know. But I now have 6 GB, the machine isn't paging out, and there should be a nice speed boost to Seti as a result of the larger RAM space it can play with... only 7th in the world at the moment

So many thanks LukeBird - Crucial *still* aren't selling compatible RAM. I've had nothing but a perfect ordering / delivery experience from Thomann, so unless it's bogus RAM (I'll be doing an extended burn-in test in a minute) then it's just the job (assuming they've got any left...)