Keamas Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hi, how much memory should I put into my Mac or Hackintosh ? Huw much makes sense ? What do you think ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 as much as you can afford.... but over 2gb is showing off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickpin Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Running 2GB on my configuration (check signature). Final Cut and Logic runs great! :censored2: But anyway want to add another 2GB... :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 as much as you can afford.... but over 2gb is showing off... I disagree. I'd go as far as to say that 2GB should really be the minimum. 1GB isn't really enough, and since you get an improvement in memory performance by interleaving two same-sized DIMMs, it wold make more sense to get 2x1GB instead of using say a 1GB and 512. Anyway, 2GB should be fine for most things, but if you use the system heavily, you can easily use more than that. Right now I'm not really doing too much (but I do have quite a few things open), and I'm utilizing 1.9GB of my 3GB (500 wired, 1.4GB active, 600 inactive, 500 free). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I hear that some OSx86 computers cannot recognize more than 3.5-4 gb, so I would say 4 at the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 I hear that some OSx86 computers cannot recognize more than 3.5-4 gb, so I would say 4 at the most. Yeah. I forgot about that. The 945 chipsets only see 3.25GB for some reason. 965s can see more though. I'm not sure about the OP's board, or if he's planning on using the one in his sig or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axecaster Posted July 22, 2007 Share Posted July 22, 2007 I have 3GB in my hackintosh desktop, but I'd say it sure runs smoothly as a result, especially when using CS3 Design Premium. On the flip side, my cheap Acer notebook hackintosh currently only has 512mb. The level of performance exceeded my expectations. I think the last time Windows ran as well on 512mb of RAM was arguably XP SP1, if not earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank27 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 is 512 enough to run lepoard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnie Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 400 Gig! No seriously, what are you doing on your mac? If just email, surfing, watching some telly, yada yada a gig will do. We have 1gb on a Core 2 machine to do all that, seems fine.... Photoshop, logic, final cut etc' you could do with a bit more or they drag. Yes matching memory so it runs dual channel, ie:- 2x512, 2x1gb or 2x2gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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