Can my MacBook Pro run this ram?

Question

I am looking to upgrade from the original RAM that came with my MacBook Pro when I purchased it last year, it has 8GB, and I want to upgrade it to 16GB as I am always using absolutely all of it, well about 7.8GB of it. I have the early 2011 17" MacBook Pro with the i7 CPU.
Now I have been looking to purchase this RAM because it is 1600Mhz instead of 1333Mhz that I currently have. From what I have read it will run at 1600Mhz without a problem. But I'm just double checking to make sure this would be good RAM to upgrade to, I am looking for as high quality RAM as I can get.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233265
I have also looked at:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233251
What are your thoughts and suggestions for RAM?

Answer 1

For what it's worth I have a LATE 2011 17" mbp and it's essential to use 1600 ram!  And, it works beautifully.
Here's a post I posted elsewhere ...
Hey guys,
Hopefully this will help.  With a late 2011 17".
THERE IS NO PROBLEM, AT ALL, RUNNING 1600 SPEED RAM.
(1) I have a very late 17" macbook Pro.  (It is actually the somewhat rare 2.5 quad model.)  One of the very last ones made.
(2) It comes with 1333 ram
(3) I swapped in 1600 ram
(4) IT IS ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN, THAT, THE MACHINE RUNS MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH FASTER when you have 1600 speed ram.
(Indeed, it runs 1600 / 1333 = 1.20x faster on all memory operations - it's just that simple and obvious. It's strange that some are suggesting there will be "no difference" etc.  The difference is VERY SUBSTANTIAL -- like 20%)
I did A NUMBER OF TESTS back-and-fore swapping the slow and fast ram.
and it is very, very obvious, the speed difference.
Most operations on computers are just memory bound - everything from startup to rendering and the like is quicker - obviously and clearly quicker - with faster ram.
(5) I have had utterly no problems running the faster ram. It reports and runs the ram utterly normally, no problem.
(6) These machines cost thousands, and ram cost a few dollars - there seems very little reason you wouldn't do this.
(7) I do have one of the very last 17" mbp.  (It was "old new stock" - I bought it unused in March 2013.)  So, it's possible that OLDER 17" mbp will not run 1600 speed RAM.  But, I mean it costs like $100 to try, on a fantastic machine worth $1000s, so it's a huge win at low cost if it works.
I hope this helps future readers!!!!
Cheers