cameronboy Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Currently have 2gb of ram in my q6600 hackintosh on a p5w DH deluxe board, enjoying my new mac life. How much ram would optimize my system. I currently have 2gb of gskill 6400hz but with the price of DDR2 dropping I would like t upgrade the ram, system has typical software set up imove09 iwork, light room. I know my dual boot into xp wouldnt use the extra ram or ubuntu as they are 32bit but as hack mac pro quad what amount of ram do you suggest? thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 2gb Is enough but The price on DDR2 memory are so dirty cheap so i would recommend you to get 2gb more to be Future proof Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 There's no reason not to have at least 4GB, given the price of DDR2. Video, VM's and Photo editing needa good amoutn of RAM as well as good CPU. For 20-30 bucks it's a no-brainer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameronboy Posted April 12, 2009 Author Share Posted April 12, 2009 There's no reason not to have at least 4GB, given the price of DDR2. Video, VM's and Photo editing needa good amount of RAM as well as good CPU. For 20-30 bucks it's a no-brainer. thanks Just wanted to make sure 4gb Ok I could event stretch to 8gb if needed but only if the system would use it to reduce bottle necks caused at quad cpu. The old e6600 cpu used to be oc at 3.6ghz the down side of this board is the q6600s dont oc that well 3ghz is about the upper limit on my board. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Q6600 comes easily up to 3,6Ghz air cooled i even got mine at 4Ghz Stable and yes 8gb would be even better Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilFox Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Happily running with 8GB of RAM . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marclh Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Happily running with 8GB of RAM . Haha, same. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1130683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Has anybody compared the difference between the 800mHz ram and the faster 1066mHz ram? The prices are dropping on both, and the faster ones are getting cheaper. I could go from 4 to 8 with more 800, or change to 4 at 1066mHz for about the same money, and I'm wondering what would be better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1131131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Is this you? http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...hreadid=2290488 Also see this: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/memory/20...ersus-1066mhz/1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1131133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameronboy Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Q6600 comes easily up to 3,6Ghz air cooled i even got mine at 4Ghz Stable and yes 8gb would be even better Which mobo are u using Nck these p5w dh are notoriously hard to overclock with quads? The e6600 was a breeze to overclock but once i swapped in a q6600 it was a different beast. my system is built around a pretty high spec h20 cooled system. At almost 5 years old it was once a cutting edge game system! I am pretty sure my p5w dh mobo is the weak link but as a hackintosh its still got mileage photos and video editing are my main uses now! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1131478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameronboy Posted April 14, 2009 Author Share Posted April 14, 2009 Also before i bugger up the system do i need to activate the memory remap feature in the p5w dh bios for os 10.5.6? If I upgrade my system ram from 2gb to 8gb?? has anyone gone from 2gb to 8gb with or without out any problems??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/161615-hackintosh-best-amount-of-ram/#findComment-1132606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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