Reddit reviews Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR3/DDR3L 1600 MT/S (PC3-12800) Unbuffered SODIMM 204-Pin Memory - CT2KIT51264BF160B

I've got this in my cart with

• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HT2RNSO
  
• http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDLVAO
  
  
  it uses 1.35 (NOT 1.5V) 204 pin DDR3

The 2011 iMacs use DDR3 Laptop RAM. You can find it for pretty cheap on Amazon. I've had good experiences with Crucial, so I'd recommend them, but they should all work equally well. 4x4 kits aren't really common, but two 2x4 works equally well.
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The SSD would indeed improve your performance, and that's a nice choice too. However, this...

> especially when running more than one program

...And this...

> Memory: 4 GB

Mean you're probably more in the market for a RAM upgrade than anything else. I have the maximum 16 GB in that machine, but you would probably do great upgrading to just 8 GB. 4 just really is a bottleneck these days.

That's just an Intel NUC. They are already overpriced for the specs but it's even more overpriced there. You mainly pay for the compact size.

If you want a NUC just get it off Amazon or somewhere cheaper:

Intel Core i3-4010U NUC Kit BOXD34010WYKH1

Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2)

Crucial M500 120GB mSATA

~$420

You would also need an OS. Windows 8.1 is probably ~$100

It really just depends on the RAM configuration. If its 2x2GB, adding 4GB would just give you 6GB, since you'd likely need to take out one of the other chips. It is possible that it has more than 2 slots for RAM, though. I know some of the other ones do.

As for brand, it really isn't terribly important, but Crucial does make some pretty good RAM (I use it in my desktop), and you can look at that stuff here

I also have an X220 Tablet w/ Coreboot. I am using 8GB of RAM -- 2x Crucial 4GB, this is the kit: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDLVAO

I had a lot of RAM problems with mine but nothing like what you're describing. I haven't tried mixing DIMM sizes. I couldn't get my X220t to boot up with any RAM w/ Coreboot until I finally gave up and tried a second motherboard from eBay. With that board I've tested this Crucial kit as well as some no-name Samsung 4GB DIMMs I had lying around.

You want to get a processor that supports aes-ni. That will allow SSL acceleration (opnvpn) and is also being required as of pfSense 2.5 and up.

I would choose this machine and purchase an unmanaged switch for your devices.

Hope that helps!

2nd edit; I was am an idiot... OK, Here you go. Under budget and should do what you need....

You can use this Zotac Barebones PC w/ the Celeron N3150 processor that supports AES-NI. Add some RAM and a SSD. Finally a Managed 8 Port Switch.

1st edit; Did not realize that I linked a celeron ( thanks u/suziesamantha ) as I thought it was a j1900 processor and then realized that the bay trail's also don't have aes-ni support. Sorry for the wrong information. The router I built is based on the Atom Rangley chip. You can use this link to help find aes-ni support.

Amazon. How much RAM do you have now? I had 2x2GB, sold them and bought 2x4GB.

I don't know if anyone will buy a used 2x2GB today, anyway a quick search shows me $67 for the 8GB kit http://amzn.com/B005LDLVAO and $38 for a single 4GB http://amzn.com/B008D6Y5JK

This is the kit I'm using in my mid 2012 It was the lowest cost one at the time I bought it. It works so I guess i'd give it a good review.

I also put an SSD in mine and that makes a huge difference in speed. If you don't have one you need to get one.

I'm in the market for something very similar, and I've landed on the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E545. It's got a 2.9 Ghz dual core processor and 4GB of RAM, which should be sufficient for most things. The laptop's only apparent bottleneck is the graphics card, which is an integrated card. Game Debate says it will run The Sims 3 on high settings, though, and it can probably handle some newer games at a low framerate. This laptop is probably the best out-of-the-box laptop you can find for $400. One disappointing thing is the small hard drive, only 320GB, but it's enough if you don't download a lot of movies/games. If you plan on multitasking a lot, I would suggest a small memory upgrade. DISCLAIMER: I don't own this laptop, but I've been doing some research, and I'm about to order it for myself along with a memory upgrade.

Here's someone playing Battlefield 4 with this laptop (+upgraded memory).

Here's the Amazon listing for the laptop. Note that it comes installed with Windows 7 Pro and has Windows 8 Pro in the box.

Here's an Amazon listing for compatible memory upgrades from Crucial.

And here's a video of the laptop's various ports and keyboard.

Definitely do your research, though. This is perfect for my needs but you might find something you like better. This is a little big at 15.6", but it's not excessively large, and 320 GB can be restrictive, but probably plenty of room for your homework and games.

At stock no oc, would it be somewhat of a good choice? Or should I ditch the idea of using this ram in the build to save money and just go with a mobo that uses dimm?

This is the ram i'm sitting on.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT2KIT51264BF160B-PC3-12800-Unbuffered-NON-ECC/dp/B005LDLVAO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1426872935&sr=8-3&keywords=PC3-8500+8gb

Should be good for you

Thanks, I did not see that. Something like this, then

So here if I get 2 of these this will max her out and be compatible correct?
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-PC3L-12800-SODIMM-204-Pin-Memory/dp/B005LDLVAO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504419743&sr=8-1&keywords=PC3-12800+DDR3+1600+MHz+type+RAM

We're trying as best we can to get proper info and although I know basics this is all over my head being so specific. and I'm going to buy these tomorrow to ship to her if these work, and then she will have herself or a friend install them.

I don't believe any 2013 MacBook Pros were offered with a 2.5GHz processor so something here is not right. It would help if you gave more information about the computer like a screenshot of "About this Mac". Based on your claims of 2.5GHz processor, 4GB of ram and 500GB of storage my GUESS is that you have a "mid 2012" 13" MacBook Pro but you really should confirm.

If that's right, you can upgrade both the HDD to an SSD and add more RAM (you can go up to 16GB, but 8 would be a good start).

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I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Unibody that I no longer use. I upgraded it to this 500 GB Samsung SSD. and this 8 GB Crucial Ram Kit.

With the new hardware, it runs on MacOS Sierra beautifully. There are 1394 battery cycles.

The specs are:

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  It is a A1286 series and model number is MD103LL/A.
  
  There is a small chip on the left side below the keyboard and the plastic hinge has a crack at the edge so I put some tape on it. Both of these are barely noticeable and performance is not affected.
  
  
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This should work pretty well:

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-4GBx2-DDR3-1600-CT2KIT51264BF160B/dp/B005LDLVAO

I found this kit which is actually currently on sale, although it's still a tad spendy. Then there's this kit which is still expensive, but it is the cheapest I could find on newegg for any 8GB stick of 1600 MHz laptop ram that's not a sketchy buy. I went on to Amazon, and guess what. They have the same kits for the same prices. Unless you want to go with even slower ram, or a less reliable or unproven brand, these look like the best options you currently have. It really doesn't help that the memory market is so expensive right now. Just this time last year I could have bought this same 2X8 kit for probably $35-$40, but now it's $50. I always suggest that you go with a dual stick kit over a single stick, as it will set your ram in a dual channel configuration, making certain tasks run more smoothly and faster. If you know the number of ram slots on your laptop motherboard, which I'm pretty sure all HP laptops since the early 2000s have had 2 slots, then definitely spend the extra few dollars on the 2 stick kit. If money's really that tight, the single 8GB stick should do you just fine. If we really get down to brass tacks, you can check your ram currently in the laptop and if it's a single 4GB stick in one of two slots, you could just buy another stick of that ram with the same CAS latency, frequency, capacity, and voltage. All of that info should be on a sticker on the stick. Other than the used market, or slower ram speeds, this is what I came up with. There are other options on Amazon for cheaper, but a lot of them look relatively sketch. Hopefully this is useful info to you. Good luck with the search.

Upgraded to Sierra 10.12 and re-sat the ram but still no luck. Here's a link to the ram I bought.
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Seems like this is the best option. Also, 1.35 V DDR3L RAM is reported to be working on X230 models with the i5-3320M and the i7-3520M. Usually, only 1.5 V regular DDR3 would work.

Great! So these are the two I found on Amazon:

Crucial

Corsair

Would either of these two be fine? I just want to give Amazon customer support some options as well as Corsair if I need to go through them.

That's a completely reasonable reason.

This kit should fit perfectly in your machine, without paying the premium crucial charges.

http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-4GBx2-DDR3-1600-CT2KIT51264BF160B/dp/B005LDLVAO/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1415552532&sr=1-1&keywords=DDR3+PC3-12800

I see this on amazon. Would it work well?

Quoted from a post I made about the new pfSense box I just put together, this would also work well for your needs:

>I recently bought one of these with this RAM and this hard drive to replace my virtualized pfSense install after I was away for two weeks and had ESXi issues that took my VPN offline. I know this sub isn't a fan of Realtek NICs, but what I was looking for was: a processor that supports AES-NI, fanless, compact, dual NICs, low power consumption, and decent price. This machine hit all of those, with the only drawback being non-Intel NICs. So far, I've had absolutely no issues with it. It's a little overkill if you just want basic routing, but I wanted to be able to run OpenVPN, Snort, pfBlockerNG, etc. and have a comfortable overhead for anything I wanted to try in the future.

I would avoid the Pipo box you mentioned, as it only has 10/100 Ethernet ports.

Most current generation desktops are adequate for your usage case. I'm personally a fan of the Intel NUC form factor (link). This particular model is one of the newer options and would more than handle everything you will throw at it after adding RAM, an SSD, and optionally a wireless card. The total cost is approximately $590, or $710 if you upgraded to a 480GB SSD. You would also need to buy Windows (or use another OS of your choice).

That said, there are a few important caveats. This may not provide the absolute best value for your money on all fronts. I like the form factor, but you could get more for $600-$700 if you used the Toms Hardware Q1 System Builders Marathon, $750 PC article. By the same hand, that PC is massively overkill for your usage model- integrated graphics from both AMD and Intel can easily handle Netflix. You could probably stay around the $300-$400 price range with some help from /r/buildapc. That said, I still like the NUC since I can mount it to the back of my dumb but otherwise nice TV, attach a webcam and do tutoring/blogging/netflix/home theater stuff with XBMC with a clean looking setup.

I think if you're happy to spend the money, it's a sleek option. If not, the other suggestions here are also all very well thought out.

Try doing whatever you do that slows your machine while looking at activity monitor so you can see which resources are being used a lot. If it's slow and the CPU is close to 100% that's probably the bottleneck.

If you install something like istat you can also look at GPU usage in real time as well.

You just need ddr3 laptop memory. You probably have 2 open slots so buying 2x4gb would be best. Look at "about this mac" and it should say something like 8gb 1600 mhz ddr3 (maybe lower mhz) but get something that matches that.

Here's some that should work but you might find a better deal somewhere else.

First result when searching amazon for DDR3-SODIMM is this 8GB kit from Crucial. It should work very well.

If you've got any other questions about that laptop /r/thinkpad is probably a better place to ask.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDLVAO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have 8GB (4GBx2), unopened for $65