Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-22 Thread maggell42
ECC but still can't be mixed. On , John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. John Carmonne Yorba

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-17 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Uh. Yes. You are right, Tina. I bought the Mac Pro last summer, and bumped to 12GB, 3 x 4GB sticks. I was told to remove the 4th small stick to improve performance. On Oct 15, 11:51 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/10/15 21:11, Brielle Bruns wrote: Sticks of ram are done in

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-17 Thread peterhaas
Uh. Yes. You are right, Tina. I bought the Mac Pro last summer, and bumped to 12GB, 3 x 4GB sticks. I was told to remove the 4th small stick to improve performance. My un-educated internet research revealed that three identical sticks ran faster than two, and four sticks ran inbetween two

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:07 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Mostly I do a lot of burning DVD's and convert to MP4's Final Cut Pro in on the list also. I think a dual MDD will do that nicely:-) Jeff Engle Kamiah, ID 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 15, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Kris Milford wrote: John Carmonne wrote: I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. We may have discussed this before, but I think this is the model that you can upgrade to the 2010 firmware and significantly increase the bus if you get faster RAM? I think this

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-16 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: On Oct 16, 2011, at 9:07 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Mostly I do a lot of burning DVD's and convert to MP4's Final Cut Pro in on the list also. I think a dual MDD will do that nicely:-) Jeff Engle Kamiah, ID 83536 Well, as nice

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-16 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/10/15 23:38, Brielle Bruns wrote: DDR3 means 'double data rate type three' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM It primarily means its an evolution of DDR2 and transfers data 2x as fast as DDR2. Thank you for the clarification, sometimes I am a little bit dyslexic. :-) Tina --

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-16 Thread John Carmonne
out fix perhaps?) and the drawbacks large (your install DVDs don't work any longer). Ok thanks, now as for my original question will mixing ECC with non ECC RAM using Final Cut Pro and CS5 particularly cause me problems? John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/10/14 18:52, John Carmonne wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. Whether Non-ECC memory works or not, mixing ECC Non-ECC doesn't

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 15, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/10/14 18:52, John Carmonne wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. Whether Non-ECC

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
John Carmonne wrote: I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. We may have discussed this before, but I think this is the model that you can upgrade to the 2010 firmware and significantly increase the bus if you get faster RAM? I think this would be worthwhile, the faster RAM is probably cheaper

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/15/11 7:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/10/14 18:52, John Carmonne wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. Whether Non-ECC memory works

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/10/15 21:11, Brielle Bruns wrote: Sticks of ram are done in pairs if they use interleaving to improve performance. There's no such thing as triple or quad (unless its something non-standard and obscure). 4 sticks is basically 2 banks of 2 interleaved sticks. My un-educated internet

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread John Carmonne
On Oct 15, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 10/15/11 7:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/10/14 18:52, John Carmonne wrote: Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/15/11 9:51 PM, Tina K. wrote: My un-educated internet research revealed that three identical sticks ran faster than two, and four sticks ran inbetween two three stick speeds. Don't remember the url of the test unfortunately. A Google search for triple channel ram returns over 1,000,000

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/15/11 10:08 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Mixing ECC and non ECC, when its actually possible, doesn't cause instability.It just means that the ECC stick won't use the ECC capabilities if its on the same bank as the non-ecc. Is there a rule here as to what type of application needs ECC

non ECC RAM?

2011-10-14 Thread John Carmonne
Has anyone mixed non ECC RAM on a Mac PRO? If so was there any problems? The ECC RAM of coarse is more expensive and I'm trying to keep down the cost. I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you