Extra RAM

Ham'nd'egger

Hey guys,

I'm looking to slot a few extra sticks of RAM into my G 5 Imac, and can't remember the site or sites that comes up that is safe to order from. Can somene be so good as to post it up, and to remind me how easy it is, lest I panic!!!

HomunQlus

Just about any PC RAM will do. I did that to my iMac as well. Works perfect.

ZENER

HomunQlus wrote:

Just about any PC RAM will do. I did that to my iMac as well. Works perfect.

A dangerous and possibly expensive answer. Having bought "Just about any PC RAM" for nearly 250 quid (4GIG) I learnt the hard way that any pc ram WILL NOT do.

Visit Komplett and use their memory chooser to find RAM for yout Mac - Kingston or Crucial is best. At best "any PC RAM" will simply not show up at all on the Mac, at worst it will show up but you Mac will crash randomly with Kernel panics. Worse again it could damage the logic board rendering your Mac useless.

ZEN

Ham'nd'egger

HomunQlus wrote:

Just about any PC RAM will do. I did that to my iMac as well. Works perfect.

:rolleyes:

HomunQlus

I bought two 512 MB RAM DDR sticks, and took the 256 MB RAM out. Works without any problems.

If you wanna have good quality fairly cheap, you check www.komplett.ie

P.S.: The iMac only supports up to 2 Gig RAM, the newer ones as well.

Ham'nd'egger

HomunQlus wrote:

I bought two 512 MB RAM DDR sticks, and took the 256 MB RAM out. Works without any problems.

If you wanna have good quality fairly cheap, you check www.komplett.ie

P.S.: The iMac only supports up to 2 Gig RAM, the newer ones as well.

Homunqlus, sorry to cut you short here but the little I know about RAM and iMac means that sadly I can't take out the 256 stick as mine had 512 to begin with! :P While you may well know what you did in your case (Fair balls To you but I am not a logic board type techie), the fact remains that it is your machine. If I followed your advice to the word, I'd be in Maplins today, get a 256 only to find it's a 512 I need and most likely at a totally wrong bus. Then that means a trip to Mactivate

However, thank you for the URL, I will check them out now.

zAbbo

komplett have a crucial memory selector, which will ensure that the memory you select works with your machine.

http://www.komplett.ie/k/kc.asp?bn=10232

garymidgley

Use Apple's configurator Apple Memory Upgrade Utility

This shows you exactly what memory you need!!

Hugh_C

Hamndegger wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm looking to slot a few extra sticks of RAM into my G 5 Imac, and can't remember the site or sites that comes up that is safe to order from. Can somene be so good as to post it up, and to remind me how easy it is, lest I panic!!!

www.crucial.com have a mac RAM configurator (and a UK and EU site) as do http://www.macsales.com/. Crucial is probably less expensive.

HC

PS don't buy from Apple website - way expensivo