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Fully Buffered memmory.... is it needed?

post #1 of 4
12/3/07 at 7:12am
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I am helping a friend pic out his new Mac Pro.
I told him to just get minimum amount of ram for it and we will just buy more ram from newegg...

anyway... I see that the Mac Pro comes with fully buffered ram..... but my question is do you have to have fully buffered ram?
Because unbuffered memmory is so much cheaper.

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Panaman
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post #2 of 4
12/3/07 at 9:08am
Yes, it has to have it. That is the way the Xeons work.
--Johnny
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post #3 of 4
12/3/07 at 12:46pm
Moreover, make sure you use ram that has decent heatsinks for the MP, normal FB DIMMs may overheat in the machine. There are 3rd party heatsinks you can add to normal ram, but honestly, your cheaper option is just to make sure you have ram with the right heatsinks. There're some on newegg, and OWC and crucial both sell ram that'll work too :-)
MBP (15, 2.33, 3GB,10.6/win/lin on 250GB)
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also a lot of other systems :-p
I met a...
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MBP (15, 2.33, 3GB,10.6/win/lin on 250GB)
MP (3,1 oct 2.8, 10GB. 10.6 on 4x1TB RAID10, Win/Lin on 1x2TB, 2407WFP on 1x5770 + 2xSamsung 910t on 1xGT120)
also a lot of other systems :-p
I met a...
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post #4 of 4
12/3/07 at 5:49pm
OWC will be back you old ram or you can keep and add more.
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