5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
1:25 p.m.
Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
Be careful! All Macs up to and including the Grey G4
towers
(and perhaps newer) require low-density SDRAM. These can be
deceptively difficult to find unless you keep your eyes open.
I can tell you from experience that newer PC100/PC133 memory
will not work reliably, if the machine even boots at all.
For 256M, at least, the correct modules will have chips on
both sides.
At the risk of drifting off-topic, I've sold SDRAM to people
who have dropped them into iMacs, eMacs and various PowerMacs.
Apart from an occasional problem with 512MB modules in PowerMacs
they've all been fine (and 256MB and 128MB seem to work
everywhere).
These are PC100, double-sided, ECC SDRAM DIMMs.
I don't think even a modern machine could consider 512MB
to be low-density (although SDRAM has obviously been left
in the information superhighway's gutter :0 ).
I don't claim to know much about Macs (I have a 6100 in the
garage and that's it) but people have paid real money and
not complained, so I assume that they were happy!
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org