On Saturday, January 1, 2005, at 10:32 AM, PETE wrote:
How about memory from RamDirect? They're about ten bucks cheaper than OWC. --- James Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can second this comment from personal experience. OS X is picky about memory; it doesn't matter the size. I haven't had any issues with OWC memory.
You get what you pay for.
I've never had problems with memory from Data Memory Corp, <http://www.datamem.com> and while they're not always the very cheapest, I'm more than willing to avoid the endless and hard-to-diagnose problems you get from bad RAM.
I had bad RAM in my 7600 once.
What happened is that my internal SCSI bus went away when I put in my G4 upgrade card. This persisted when I replaced my motherboard. I figured it was an issue with the G4 card and put it up on the shelf, pissed off. (It was an old JoeCard I'd gotten on clearance, the original company was no longer in existence and I couldn't return it)
Months later I bought 2 new 128 MB RAM sticks (from Datamem) and discovered that not all my RAM now showed up.
Painstakingly checking, DIMM by DIMM, I discovered that everything would work by itself, but that when some of my older sticks were in the system the new 128 MB sticks didn't show up.
I bought another 128 MB stick at $24 and replaced all of the motley old collection of 16 and 32 MB sticks and the system ran far better and crash-free than before.
On a hunch, I re-installed the G4 upgrade. Not a hitch.
Saving a couple of bucks is NOT worth that kind of aggravation!
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