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macOS Mojave/Catalina on Dell XPS 9570.
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RAM Modules - which one do you have? #43

Open mceykes opened 5 years ago

mceykes commented 5 years ago

Hey, does anyone use different memory cards than @bavariancake outlined? 16GBs per Card (SK Hynix HMA82GS6CJR8N-VK) are currently 100€ in Germany, whereas a Crucial 32 Kit (2x16 GB - CT2K16G4SFD8266)for example is only 135€ right now. I am thinking of trying this one out. Have you guys tried different ones as well and how did it go for you?

Cheers

bavariancake commented 5 years ago

I'd suggest buying memory only from the manufacturers of the chips, and there are only three RAM manufacturers in the world (for regular computer memory): Micron (sold as Crucial), Samsung, and SK Hynix. Anyone else is just going to buy chips from those three and assemble them into a module, so you might as well buy it from the source that knows its own chips.

In your case @mceykes, I would buy the Crucial modules - I've never had a problem with them, and they're usually not cheaper!

After installing new modules, I suggest running memtest86 (the free version) for about 48 hours. You will save yourself a ton of time debugging an unreliable system, just to find out it's the RAM.

mceykes commented 5 years ago

@bavariancake thank you for clearing that up. So I will follow your advice and get the Crucial modules. Also thanks for the advice with memtest86 - I will run that. Thanks for all the good work you share with us! Cheers