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post #1 of 5
9/24/02 at 8:58am
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I own a PowerMac G4 500 "Sawtooth" (AGP). I currently have 256 MBs. I need to max my memory. The Apple System Profiler states that my PowerMac has four PC100 3.3V 168-pin SDRAM slots available. MacTracker states that my Mac can max at 1.5 MBs under OS 9.2 and 2 MBs under OSX. My question is, how is this possible and does this mean I should purchase four 512k units? Also, what is an ECC registered memory? Is it any better than a non-registered or a non-ECC unit?

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post #2 of 5
9/24/02 at 9:14am
Buy 4 of these

MDN1364U/512/L3V4\t512 MEG APPLE POWERMAC G4 NEW PC133 VERSION \tÂ* @Â*\tÂ*$48.00

@ <a href="http://www.18004memory.com/category.asp?catid=9&subcatid=904" target="_blank">http://www.18004memory.com/category.asp?catid=9&subcatid=904</a>

Total cost $196 + Shipping

It doesn't matter they are 133 sticks. Your computer's bus just won't use the last 33MHz and they cost the same as 100 MHz sticks.

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Oct 3.2GHz 08 MP, 32GB, 512SSD, 15TB HDs
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post #3 of 5
9/24/02 at 9:28am
ECC stands for error check and correction. It's used mostly in servers and workstations.
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post #4 of 5
9/24/02 at 12:16pm
Don't buy ECC memory BTW. It won't work in you PowerMac.
14" iBook
700MHz G3
640MB RAM

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700MHz G3
640MB RAM

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post #5 of 5
9/25/02 at 6:03am
Actually it could kill something if you tried to use ECC RAM.
Just go buy some regular PC-100 or PC-133 SDRAM sticks. And you need 4x512 MB (not kb) to have a total of 2GB (not mb).

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