What brand RAM is Apple using?

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What brand RAM is Apple using?

My new Mac Pro shipped with two 512 chips of Hynix ram, and Other World Computing sells that brand, assuring it's the same Apple uses.

But I've heard other owners say their machines shipped with Nanya chips. I know Apple has used Nanya in their G4 line, and wonder if they also were using it in the Mac Pros. And would upgrading with either chip brand be a problem?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 21, 2007 5:39 PM

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sergoo7

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Feb 21, 2007 6:34 PM in response to William Robinson

mine came with the 512 NANYA and so on i purchase 8 gigs NANYA brand just to keep it the same

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Kappy

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Feb 21, 2007 7:42 PM in response to William Robinson

The actual brand isn't as important as getting RAM that has the same specs and comes from a reseller with a reliable reputation and a good return policy. Just be sure the RAM you buy has the proper heat sink that Apple requires.

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sergoo7

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Feb 24, 2007 10:34 PM in response to William Robinson

mine had hynix two 512s and install eight NANYA and worked fine but got a good deal on four sticks of 2 gig each total of eight and total of twelve gigs and that brand was NETLIST and had beed working great i guess with good heat sinks they are all really good

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Feb 25, 2007 6:15 AM in response to William Robinson

Mine came with Nanya and i later bought Hynix which came with other Mac Pro and the bad part is It won't work together.
I mean i cannot put 2 on each riser i have to put all 4 on the same riser coz if i don't do that it will cause a panic with 10.4.8 but if i tried it with shipping of OSX it will not cause a panic but it will report ECC error about 60+. Both brands are not deffective, i ran memtest on all of them (each brand at a time) and it's came back fine.

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