My stock MacPro 2.66 is a replacement under AppleCare for a G5 Dual 2.5 that was officially declared dead recently. The hard drive is a WDC WD2500JS-41SGO and the optical drive is a Sony DVD RW DW-150A. The memory was Micron as was the additional memory installed at the Apple Store. The second drive from the dead G5, a Hitachi 250GB Serial ATA HD, was also installed.
As a side note, the AppleCare I had on the G5 really paid off.
I've a 2.66 with X1900 XT and full wireless. Standard everything else. I'll be adding 2GB of ram soon from crucial, and probably another 250gb HD from seagate. are those SATA HDs?
My Mac Pro 2.66GHz has the 1900XT, a Sony SuperDrive, a Pioneer Superdrive, 150GB Raptor boot drive, 500GB "Data" Drive, 2x300GB Raid 0 "Working" drive and 4GB of RAM. A fine Aperture rig among other things.
$800 for 2x2GB, $400 for 2x1GB with the big heatsinks. Sounds like a deal to me, you dont have to mess with retrofitting to another dimm, doesnt void any warranties.
$800 for 2x2GB, $400 for 2x1GB with the big heatsinks. Sounds like a deal to me, you dont have to mess with retrofitting to another dimm, doesnt void any warranties.
I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
pay for quality or go ahead and glue some random vga sinks onto a generic chip I guess... someone on this forum did that. seems like an affront to the beautifully engineered mac pro, but thats only my opinion. i hack my pc's like monsters but the mac is a shrine . but regarding macsinks, until they move volume (or get competition with a heatsink of equal quality) it wont be dirt cheap. plus 30$ a heatsink isnt much if you are buying 1GB or 2GB sticks. it certainly stands out more when you are talking about 512's as in your situation though.
pay for quality or go ahead and glue some random vga sinks onto a generic chip I guess... someone on this forum did that. seems like an affront to the beautifully engineered mac pro, but thats only my opinion. i hack my pc's like monsters but the mac is a shrine . but regarding macsinks, until they move volume (or get competition with a heatsink of equal quality) it wont be dirt cheap. plus 30$ a heatsink isnt much if you are buying 1GB or 2GB sticks. it certainly stands out more when you are talking about 512's as in your situation though.
yeah, that was me.
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
while i wont get into a "mine is fatter than yours" argument, you are right about me wanting to keep my mp pretty. with all the clutter in my life and constant struggle to organize i need my one place of serenity... where everything has its place
the kool-aid is pretty damn good too even though it only comes in one flavour, apple
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
If you've thinned your wallet considerably just getting a Mac Pro in the first place, I don't see the point in that retort in this pissing contest.
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I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
I really don't think that's a bad price. It looks like they were made for the task too. Unless Mac Pros get quite a lot more popular than Power Macs, I don't think you can get decent economies of scale.
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My stock MacPro 2.66 is a replacement under AppleCare for a G5 Dual 2.5 that was officially declared dead recently. The hard drive is a WDC WD2500JS-41SGO and the optical drive is a Sony DVD RW DW-150A. The memory was Micron as was the additional memory installed at the Apple Store. The second drive from the dead G5, a Hitachi 250GB Serial ATA HD, was also installed.
As a side note, the AppleCare I had on the G5 really paid off.
Wow that's great timing and is crazy lucky.
*Runs out to buy applecare on mbp*
Not a bad machine, the smoothest transition yet.
Anybody know where the cheapest Mac Pro-heatsinked RAM is at? Crucial is ridiculous, the prices jumped $100 for the gig kit.
The cheapest way to do it so far is to buy standard RAM from www.newegg.com (or something) and attach THESE heatsinks:
(MAX SINC)
Of course, this will void the RAM's warantee.
If you want to half-ass it, you could always go with the VGA heatsink solution. That's what I did and it's worked out pretty well.
Yeah, that's probably the most undeserved setup ever.
Quite deserved: he paid for it.
Anybody know where the cheapest Mac Pro-heatsinked RAM is at? Crucial is ridiculous, the prices jumped $100 for the gig kit.
http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/in...Product_ID=157
$800 for 2x2GB, $400 for 2x1GB with the big heatsinks. Sounds like a deal to me, you dont have to mess with retrofitting to another dimm, doesnt void any warranties.
http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/in...Product_ID=157
$800 for 2x2GB, $400 for 2x1GB with the big heatsinks. Sounds like a deal to me, you dont have to mess with retrofitting to another dimm, doesnt void any warranties.
I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
pay for quality or go ahead and glue some random vga sinks onto a generic chip I guess... someone on this forum did that. seems like an affront to the beautifully engineered mac pro, but thats only my opinion. i hack my pc's like monsters but the mac is a shrine
pay for quality or go ahead and glue some random vga sinks onto a generic chip I guess... someone on this forum did that. seems like an affront to the beautifully engineered mac pro, but thats only my opinion. i hack my pc's like monsters but the mac is a shrine
yeah, that was me.
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
He doesn't deserve to have the money to pay for it considering the worthless bile of rhetoric he spouts.
You're right. Rush's pro-mac rhetoric must stop. The highest-rated radio show of all time must not be rittled with pro-Apple propaganda.
yeah, that was me.
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
while i wont get into a "mine is fatter than yours" argument, you are right about me wanting to keep my mp pretty. with all the clutter in my life and constant struggle to organize i need my one place of serenity... where everything has its place
the kool-aid is pretty damn good too even though it only comes in one flavour, apple
By all means, keep your shrine holy with kool-aid-drinker-recommended "Mac Pro Spec" memory. It doesn't make any difference, but at least you can take comfort in the fact that the inside of your computer is prettier than mine, even if my wallet is fatter.
If you've thinned your wallet considerably just getting a Mac Pro in the first place, I don't see the point in that retort in this pissing contest.
I'm looking for 2x512 kits. That might still be competitive with buying their heatsinks, but just the fact that it's upfrontly apparent that it's THIRTY BUCKS A HEATSINK is a turnoff.
I really don't think that's a bad price. It looks like they were made for the task too. Unless Mac Pros get quite a lot more popular than Power Macs, I don't think you can get decent economies of scale.