Crucial Reveals Memory for New Mac Pros

Crucial is among the first to announce aftermarket memory for Apple's new Mac Pro systems. The memory is designed with high-density in mind, and will come in capacities of up to 16 GB per DIMM.

The memory modules run at a frequency of 1866 MHz, and have ECC and SDP support.

"Mac Pro computer users frequently handle large datasets across a very broad range of applications, and often they need to do this simultaneously which can slow down their systems. This is when having an abundance of DRAM available is most beneficial, since it will help drive productivity to new levels," said Michael Moreland, worldwide DRAM product marketing manager, Crucial. "Our modules are extensively tested at both the component and module level to guarantee a premium quality product specifically designed for the new Mac Pro workstations. This enables Crucial to deliver memory with the highest densities and fastest speeds, all guaranteed to work at optimum levels in their Mac Pro system."

The DIMMs will come with a lifetime warranty and are already available through Crucial. The 32 GB kit (2x 16 GB) will set you back $439.00.

Niels Broekhuijsen

Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

  • Mrbusdrv
    "RAM memory"? Seriously?
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  • chuckydb
    Mac memory...
    That means regular Ram, but with a high price, am I right?
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  • john768
    Reminds me of the Mac specific 7950's that came in white and had a reference cooler and had a $250 premium on the after market cooled ones.
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  • DroKing
    smart move on their part. if apple can milk it then so can rest of them ;) what a genius move!
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  • amk-aka-Phantom
    Mac memory...
    That means regular Ram, but with a high price, am I right?

    Not quite. First, any RAM like this WILL be more costly than what we use for gaming rigs: ECC support is only enabled in workstation/server targeted RAM and comes with an extra price. Mac Pros are, after all, marketed as workstations and are equipped with workstation hardware (Xeons, ECC RAM and so on).

    However, it *is* sane to assume that it WILL cost more than "normal" ECC 1866 MHz RAM from the same brand without a "for Mac" tag. Happens every time.

    Reminds me of the Mac specific 7950's that came in white and had a reference cooler and had a $250 premium on the after market cooled ones.

    Not just the 7950s. I've checked Mac Pro configs back when they had 5870s and it cost TWICE the price of an actual 5870 to add one more to the config. Blatant ripoff, again, happens every time.

    Don't get me wrong, Mac Pros are nice workstations and all (if you don't know the difference between WS/server hardware and gaming/consumer hardware - i.e. Xeon, FirePro, Quadro, ECC RAM etc vs desktop gaming cards, i7s and so on - then go learn it first) but they cost nearly twice of what the hardware inside them is worth. If you want to pay double just for looks (which, IMO, are pathetic compared to NZXT Phantom and Switch and H-series cases), go ahead, but please be conscious that you are wasting resources (money) just because you CBA to have a "huge box" under your desk. Please custom-build and give the second half of the money to charities if you got extra to throw around, don't feed greedy insolent "premium" brands.
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  • rwinches
    If I spent Mac money I would not buy this ugly memory.

    Still love my activity LEDs on my Corsair XMS sticks
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  • rwinches
    They look like this:
    http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/CorsairXMS3500LL/
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  • therealduckofdeath
    @amk-aka-Phantom

    Go to crucial.com. Compare the price difference between regular RAM and ECC RAM. It's negligable. ECC is nothing but regular RAM with a parity bit. They come from the same plants and have the same hardware failure rate. They just have a safety against single bit errors. So yeah, charging $200 extra on standard RAM prices for a mid-range 1.866GHz module is... Well, typical Apple stuff. :)
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  • halcyon
    I would like to have a new Mac pro
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  • photonboy
    I'll get the $9000 new Mac Pro just for SteamOS, and 64GB of DDR3 memory is a must-have.
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