Comments | tongodeon: 3rd Party Patriot Apple RAM: Possible Fail

tongodeon

3rd Party Patriot Apple RAM: Possible Fail

Mar 10, 2008 13:09

Last week I was bragging about the cleverness with which I avoided the Apple RAM tax by finding a really good third party deal. (Patriot 2x2GB PSA24GICDSK, sold by NewEgg and packaged by Patriot as "Mac Memory".) cypher386 mentioned to me that the new just-released (21/02/2008) version 2.01 of memtest86+ handles EFI. I ran memtest86+ and it turns out ( Read more... )

ram, macintosh:trouble

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crisper March 10 2008, 20:12:28 UTC

The 3rd party RAM source I have used for almost ten years (since the original tangerine/lime clamshell iBooks) has been coastmemory.com, and not once have I been bitten in upgrades or extended use. I haven't subjected any of their RAM to memtest but I've also never gotten strings of panics or the like.

tongodeon March 10 2008, 20:15:00 UTC

Oddly enough I haven't been getting any kernel panics. The worst that's happened to me is that Mozilla has crashed a few times when I open a new tab, and Photoshop just gave me a weird error saying "can't synchronize color" when I started it up to resize this photo.

crisper March 10 2008, 20:21:20 UTC

That latter sounds really implausible to me, as a RAM hardware issue, but that's just my gut.

Anyway, Coast Memory has been good to me and my... five? six?... Mac portables over the last eight years, and they'll be getting more of my business this week as I pop 4GB into the 15" I just bought.

crisper March 10 2008, 20:57:53 UTC

Also, check your twitter access requests, mrn.

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cactusthesaint March 10 2008, 21:11:27 UTC

Sadface.

I've been buying memory from crucial.com for years. Their 4GB kit for the MBP is $101.99 right now.

I haven't yet run memtest86+ on the latest batch of memory I bought from them, but will do so when I get home and let you know.

tongodeon March 28 2008, 22:32:02 UTC

One thing I noticed about crucial: their RAM is $100 or so but macsales.com is selling Micron RAM for $150 or so. (Micron owns Crucial.) Looks like buying straight from Crucial gives you a nice discount.

haineux March 10 2008, 22:24:35 UTC

My vendor of choice is http://www.datamemorysystems.com/

This is partially because I used to live near them, and they are OK with you driving over, if you call first. (They have an unmarked building because thieves love to steal RAM cards.)

They also have an lifetime warranty on most of their RAM, and they are extremely nice to deal with. I doubt they'd give anyone grief about a warranty claim.

flipsideghost March 10 2008, 22:48:40 UTC

Thanks for sharing! Been meaning to give my systems' RAM a good physical. =)

ikkyu2 March 10 2008, 23:49:17 UTC

My Mac memory vendor of choice has been http://www.thechipmerchant.com for a long time. They never screw the pooch.