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BlasR

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What Mac do I need for MFDB?
« Reply #20 on: October 07, 2008, 01:23:44 pm »

[quote name='michael' date='Oct 6 2008, 07:59 AM' post='227163']
I'm just putting a new system together this week. The pieces should be here in a couple of days.

I ordered a 3Ghz 8 core with 2GB ram and one 1 Terabyte drive. That's the minimum configuration that one can get away with from Apple. I then ordered three more internal 1T drives and another 8GB of ram for under a thousand dollars, saving almost another $2K over Apple's pricing. A RAID card is unnecessary.

Based on advice from Chris Sanderson I will configure one of the drives as my boot drive and non-photo / video data drive, with a second as a mirror, using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner.




I got 2x3.2 GHz Quad-core

With 8 GB from apple store.

If you get memory, other then apple
 
the computer heated up quickly.
& will have very bad sound

better of pay the extra for the memory, from apple store.

I got experience with other memory.

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« Reply #21 on: October 07, 2008, 02:19:48 pm »

Depends on the memory you buy.
My wife owns a PC store which also sells mac and the modules they sell are exactly the same as the apple modules (slightly ticker coolingribs) and work great.
They are however a fourth of the apple price which is ridicilous.
Same goes for HDDs.

You have to make 100% sure however you buy 100% compatible memory, there are alot of modules out there that fit but for example have less cooling, those will bring trouble.
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« Reply #22 on: October 07, 2008, 02:44:40 pm »

Does anyone here happen to know if OWC ram upgrades are reliable? Their prices are excellent.
Eduardo

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Depends on the memory you buy.
My wife owns a PC store which also sells mac and the modules they sell are exactly the same as the apple modules (slightly ticker coolingribs) and work great.
They are however a fourth of the apple price which is ridicilous.
Same goes for HDDs.

You have to make 100% sure however you buy 100% compatible memory, there are alot of modules out there that fit but for example have less cooling, those will bring trouble.
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