numberonekiwi Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I have been searching a local site and think I have found a good deal 320GB/7200 Sata Hard drive NZ$139 2GB DDR2 800 RAM NZ$59 the site selling these states RAM will work only on new iMacs after may 2008 as older Macs use DDR2 667 but this to me does not sound correct in the PC world DDR2 is DDR2 no matter what it just means if you put a higher speed in it will run at the pre set mother board speed ( I think anyway ) I believe the same for SATA but you can use SATA1.5 in SATA3.0 or SATA1.5 M/B and SATA 1.5 in both as well but it would run at the slowest speed of either ( I think anyway ) Now question is are there any differences in DDR2 and SATA for Macs and PC these Days I recall earlier days of 144 pin laptop memory ( pc ) using old imac chips about 8 years ago thou If anyone can answer soon please do so have parts on standby for order Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152282-apple-harware-vs-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shavex Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Well it depends on your FSB. In my experience you need to make sure your memory is running either at or below the FSB speed, if it is higher than it then the computer wont boot. As far as HD's go I'm sure that speed doesnt matter in parallel with anything, just depends on speed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152282-apple-harware-vs-pc/#findComment-1075962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Either download Mactracker or go to Macsales.com and find out the specs of the RAM you'll need (and then get it wherever you want to get it). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152282-apple-harware-vs-pc/#findComment-1077929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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