Computer for CS5

**Ben Hopson** · 25-Jan-2012, 13:20

The link is to OWC and shows the memory each MacPro will accept.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memor...ry#1066-memory

Originally Posted by sraichur

Brian,

Which macpro do you have?
I can't see one that had 8 slots and can take 128gb?

**Kirk Gittings** · 25-Jan-2012, 15:25

Originally Posted by Greg Miller

Kirk - go to www.crucial.com, click to the "memory" page, and then "scan my system". This tool will tell you how much RAM each slot will take, and what your total system RAM capacity is. Crucial is very highly regarded, has good prices, and a guarantee that their RAM will work.

Thanks for that suggestion. Interesting, Crucial says I have a capacity of 16gb. Can I take this to the bank you think?

**Peter De Smidt** · 25-Jan-2012, 16:17

I've bought from them. The service was good. With the memory adviser, don't the options that pop up come with a guarantee that they'll work? You should read the fine print, but it should be fine. I'm thinking of doing the same thing. I have 12 gb in, but the memory adviser says that 24gb will work. Your motherboard manufacturer probably has a list of tested memory available.

**Brian K** · 25-Jan-2012, 20:01

Originally Posted by sraichur

Brian,

Which macpro do you have?
I can't see one that had 8 slots and can take 128gb?

A MacPro 5.1. It has 8 slots, I just added 8 dimms to it.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memor...ry#1333-memory

**Greg Miller** · 25-Jan-2012, 20:28

Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings

Thanks for that suggestion. Interesting, Crucial says I have a capacity of 16gb. Can I take this to the bank you think?

Yes. I order from Crucial all the time. I have never had an issue and their customer support is very good. They have a 45 day money back compatibility guarantee - so if you order based on their advisor tool, and it doesn't work, you can return it and get your money refuinded.

**Kirk Gittings** · 26-Jan-2012, 11:30

Originally Posted by Greg Miller

Yes. I order from Crucial all the time. I have never had an issue and their customer support is very good. They have a 45 day money back compatibility guarantee - so if you order based on their advisor tool, and it doesn't work, you can return it and get your money refuinded.

I just ordered 16gb 4x4 from Crucial. Thanks for your advice on this. You might have saved me X-hundreds of dollars over the next year not having to upgrade my system for awhile.

**Greg Miller** · 26-Jan-2012, 12:39

Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings

I just ordered 16gb 4x4 from Crucial. Thanks for your advice on this. You might have saved me X-hundreds of dollars over the next year not having to upgrade my system for awhile.

I'm happy to have helped. Enjoy!

**sanking** · 26-Jan-2012, 17:34

Originally Posted by Greg Miller

Regarding SSD drives, I have never tried it, but I'm thinking that an SSD drive would show benefit if paging occurs. It would be way faster reading/writing scratch to an SSD drive then a SATA drive. If you have enough RAM to never page, then this is a moot point. probably makes the most sense if you max out on RAM, but still see latency from paging.

I have a Macbook Air with an SSD drive and a Macbook Pro. The Macbook Pro has a faster processor and twice the Ram of the Macbook Air, but the Air is way faster with many reading, writing and loading operations. I probably won't replace the drive in the Macbook Pro with an SSD because of cost of a 500 gb SSD drive, but I am sure that doing so would be a great enhancement.

Sandy