Is all RAM created equal

[Suzanne]

Most RAM you get is pretty reliable. The only RAM that I’ve personally had trouble with in the past is Kingston Value RAM. Kingston makes different RAM, but the “Value” kind has frozen up on me. Could have just been a bad batch, but I won’t buy it anymore myself.

Good luck!
Suz

[Jimr]

I personally like Crucial ram.
Buy all my Ram from them and Never had a problem.

[Walter Biscardi]

http://www.crucial.com is the only place I recommend. I also recommend keeping all the RAM as a matched set, i.e. all from the same manufacturer.

When I purchase a new machine, I order it with the bare minimum RAM, then replace it all with Crucial RAM. 4GB in one G5, 3GB in another G5 and 1GB in my Powerbook, all working fine.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Don Forschmitt]

Thank you all for such quick responses. I am always amazed.

FCP 4.5 HD
Dual 2gig G5
1 gig RAM
2 internal drives 160GB/250GB
G-RAID 500 GB
G-Drive 160 GB
UVW-1800
DSR-11
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[Fred Miller]

Make sure you do a hardware test after installing the RAM.

G5 2Gg Dual
1.5Gg RAM
Panther
ATTO UL3D

[Sean Oneil]

There are a lot of very confusing specs for RAM like CAS latency and other types of timing and things like that. Unless you know what those are and what a G5 is optimized for, make sure the RAM is advertised as Mac compatible.