speed difference with unmatched ram in macbook?

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cj171cj171
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Hey all, I just picked up a macbook and I know that supposedly if you use non-matching pairs of ram in this puppy the video performance suffers. I'm just wondering if there's any proof of that and if so, how much of a difference does it make? I wanna run parallels so 1gb might not be enough but 2gb is a little more than I wanna spend...but I don't wanna further hinder the already hinderous GMA video...

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    galleygalley Posts: 971member
    I ran 1.25GB for awhile, and didn't notice much of a performance hit.
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    cj171cj171 Posts: 144member
    was that in general? I'm interested in running some not too new games occasionally (c&c generals, age of empires 3, etc) so that's my primary concern...



    and does the performance gain of bumping up to 1.25gb outweigh the loss in video?
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    londorlondor Posts: 265member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by cj171 View Post


    was that in general? I'm interested in running some not too new games occasionally (c&c generals, age of empires 3, etc) so that's my primary concern...



    and does the performance gain of bumping up to 1.25gb outweigh the loss in video?



    http://www.barefeats.com/mincd.html
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    galleygalley Posts: 971member
    No 3D gaming for me.
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