cameronboy Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Thanks for advice the other day on my ram upgrade on my p5w dh. Just thought if anyone else was going down the same route just ordered some this ram is a steal ddr2 8500 at £33.00 inc vat http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=MY-149-OC 8gb on route to me! let just hope it doesn't bugger everything up! Has anyone else gone from 2gb to 8gb with this board? did you need to remap memory??????? thanks cameronboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameronboy Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 installed the extra ram to be honest i think 4gb would have been enough running a few apps and encoding a movie in imovie09 I was still only hitting 2gb! so before you spend your hard earned dosh try 2*2gb first. 8gb looks good on paper but in real world the jury is still out. p5wdh q6600 8gb ocz 8500 ram 4*2gb ddr2 nvida 8800gt 1*500mb 1*300mb kalyway install then efi boot loader installed then fully upgraded to 10.5.6 Not overclocked geekbench =Summary Section Description Score Geekbench Score Geekbench 2.1.2 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) Integer Processor integer performance 5527 5605 Floating Point Processor floating point performance 8364 Memory Memory performance 2628 Stream Memory bandwidth performance 2180 System Information Operating System Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Build 9G55) Model Hackintosh Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5W DH Deluxe Rev 1.xx Processor Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Processor ID GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11 Processors 1 Threads 4 Cores 4 Memory 8.00 GB 0 MHz SDRAM Processor Frequency 3.80 GHz Bus Frequency 1.06 GHz L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB L2 Cache 4.00 MB L3 Cache 0.00 B BIOS American Megatrends Inc. 2801 Integer Section Section Score 5527 Blowfish single-threaded scalar 1562 68.6 MB/sec Blowfish multi-threaded scalar 6635 271.9 MB/sec Text Compress single-threaded scalar 2166 6.93 MB/sec Text Compress multi-threaded scalar 7947 26.1 MB/sec Text Decompress single-threaded scalar 1887 7.76 MB/sec Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar 7353 29.3 MB/sec Image Compress single-threaded scalar 2081 17.2 Mpixels/sec Image Compress multi-threaded scalar 8009 67.4 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress single-threaded scalar 1991 33.4 Mpixels/sec Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar 7267 118.6 Mpixels/sec Lua single-threaded scalar 4077 1.57 Mnodes/sec Lua multi-threaded scalar 15360 5.91 Mnodes/sec Floating Point Section Section Score 8364 Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar 1797 1.20 Gflops Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar 6943 4.54 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded scalar 3253 1.57 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded scalar 13644 6.22 Gflops Dot Product single-threaded vector 2529 3.03 Gflops Dot Product multi-threaded vector 11527 12.0 Gflops LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar 1299 1.16 Gflops LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar 5115 4.48 Gflops Primality Test single-threaded scalar 4657 695.6 Mflops Primality Test multi-threaded scalar 13260 2.46 Gflops Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar 5011 11.7 Mpixels/sec Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar 18338 42.3 Mpixels/sec Blur Image single-threaded scalar 6232 4.93 Mpixels/sec Blur Image multi-threaded scalar 23496 18.5 Mpixels/sec Memory Section Section Score 2628 Read Sequential single-threaded scalar 3914 4.79 GB/sec Write Sequential single-threaded scalar 2449 1.68 GB/sec Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar 2270 8.47 Mallocs/sec Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar 2166 4.48 GB/sec Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar 2345 2.42 GB/sec Stream Section Section Score 2180 Stream Copy single-threaded scalar 1946 2.66 GB/sec Stream Copy single-threaded vector 2177 2.82 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded scalar 2045 2.65 GB/sec Stream Scale single-threaded vector 2148 2.90 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded scalar 2482 3.75 GB/sec Stream Add single-threaded vector 2275 3.17 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded scalar 2724 3.76 GB/sec Stream Triad single-threaded vector 1643 3.08 GB/sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Producer Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 i have 8gb of ram and it depends on what your doing. in logic pro (Digital Audio Workstation Program) i have gone to up 8gbs of ram used using the exs24 instument sampler. so in cases of video/audio editing lots of ram really does help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameronboy Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 i have 8gb of ram and it depends on what your doing. in logic pro (Digital Audio Workstation Program) i have gone to up 8gbs of ram used using the exs24 instument sampler. so in cases of video/audio editing lots of ram really does help. True i am sure it does with a few applications, but if your bog standard like me then 4gb will cut the cloth for almost all my needs. I will play with light room to see if it takes advantage. Just warning those new mac like me who will be running standard apps most of the time but at £33 for 4gb 8500 ddr2 it wont break the bank to house the full 8gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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