Kingston RAM

I'm planning to buy a RAM upgrade for my late 2011 MacBook Pro.
Is Kingston RAM a good choice or should i rather buy from Crucial?

go by warranty (which ever has the better warranty), rather than brand. That is what is most important. They are both well known name brands.

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Does anyone have kingston Ram

Curious I am haveing audio issues and if you look a few posts down there is my post, if someone could have a look at that thatd be great. Now since audio sync is my problem, I've read RAM may be it. But I really don't feel like take my RAM out. My pb came with 512, I upgraded and bought a 1GB stick of Kinston. Now does anyone else here have a Kingston stick in theres and have success with audio sync. I really wish I could fix this issue, its just driving me nuts.
Nathan

Geez Nathan, it's not a big deal to remove that Kingston RAM and try again...
Kingston has been problematic.

Kingston RAM OK rather than Apple approved?

I'm in Ottawa and I've been quoted by a shop that claims to be an Apple reseller who supplies Kingston RAM cheaper than the authorised Apple reseller. The price difference is significant.
I would be happier using the Apple authorised but am tempted by the Kingston product.
What does anyone think about inserting the Kingston RAM.
I have an ibook 933MHZ and want an extra 512 MB
Thank you all
Gordon

I have 1GB of Kingston RAM in my iBook. As long as they'll guarantee compatibility buy it.
John

Kingston RAM and MacBook / MacBook Pro?

Hello,
I am finally going to be buying my MacBook Pro C2D in the next couple of days and have a question on Kingston RAM.
I am interested in the 2.16 model and loading it up with 2GB of RAM. When I went to the Apple boutique here in Canada, I was told that if I order my computer from the Apple site with Apple RAM it will take 1 month to receive!!!! Is this true? They told me they could get the model as advertised on the site (2.16 Ghz, 1 GB RAM and 120 hard disk) and put in Kingston RAM instead.
They said that Kingston RAM is supported by Apple and will greatly cut down the wait time and I will end up having my computer in a couple of days instead of a month. Is this a sales pitch they are pulling on me? Does it really take a month for a C2D with 2 GB of RAM (in the base model)? If I use any other kind of RAM am I voiding my warranty? The price they are quoting me is not really that much cheaper than Apple's so I don't know what the big deal is unless there is something I am missing here.
I am opting to get the lower model with more RAM instead of the 2.33 model with 2 GB since I don't think I will be using the 256 video card and I can save 400$ in the process. I love the 15" screen which is my main issue for wanting a MB Pro over the MB. I know the MB would be fine for me, but not the 13" screen. I plan on keeping my system for a good 4-5 years and I think the 13" screen will not meet my needs.
Any help you could give would be MOST helpful as I need to be purchasing my MB Pro by the end of the week. I will be starting teacher's college very shortly and need to get my system as quickly as possible.
As usual these forums are a GREAT resource! Thanks much for any help you could pass on!
Cheers,
Mark

It will not take any longer to get if you order it from Apple. It won't void your warranty installing RAM yourself either. I ordered my MBP from Apple, got it in about a week and installed an extra 1G of Apple-certified RAM from here. It's been working fantastic.
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Kingston RAM "KVR400X64C25/512"

Hi everybody
Could you please tell me if KVR400X64C25/512 Kingston ram are ok for a MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R mainboard?
And if I bought 2x512 modules there would be problems?
Thank you very much in advance

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Originally posted by Pickse
I see some of you are running this ram. I just built my first A64 system on a K8T-Neo2 (MS-6702E) and can't get this ram to work in other than slot 1 and 2. This means it's running DDR333.
One stick in slot 1 seems to work but using both sticks in 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 just results in a hang with dleds indicating 'early chipset initialization'.
Can I ask what slots you're running and did you have to fiddle with timings, volts etc to achieve DDR400?
According to the Manual(Chapter 2 - Page 8) for DDR400 You would want to try Slots 1 & 3 for this ram, If It's Double Sided, If It's Single Sided ram then slots 2 & 4 should get You DDR400. But since You've tried that, Then You have double sided dimms and need some single sided ram dimms, As according to the manual there is no way to run 2 double sided sticks at DDR400 in those slots, Since You would need 2 Single Sided or 1 Double Sided Dimm to run at DDR400 in either Slot 1 and/or Slot 2.

Kingston ram mem solved in 3 k7n2 mobo

I already solve problems with kingston ram mem in 3 pcs, mine and 2 from friends . It seems this is for real, kingston ram mem when working on 400mhz dual have a lot of :angryfire:overheat problems on msi k7n2 mobos, and the pchealth and other software won't tell u because it just shows the main proces and mobo/chassis temperature .
All I and this 2 friends have to do is to buy a new pc case with side cooling (direct on the ram mem) and one more back exaust fan.
We bought this pc case:
http://www.casemall.com.br/gabinetes/imt4000.htm
Site language it is in portuquese.
But any one with a side cooler slot (just one on the left) plus a back exaust slot will do the work
Ps.: this slots r all the same and the coolers/exaust fan too, all u need to do is change the face that u connect on the case.

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Originally posted by Latinmike
:idea:I DON,T THINK YOU CAN NOT SURE DIDN,T WORK FOR ME IF U SOME HOW GET IT THERE E-MAIL ME HOW U DID IT
YOU CAN TRY TO SET YOURCLOCK/RATIO TO 5:6 3-3-6/8 SO THAT THE CPU/ MEMORY CAN WORK BETTER TOGETHER, I DON,T THINK MAKING YOUR RAM FASTER IS GOING TO GIVE YOU BETTER PERFORMANCE BECAUSE SIMPLE IT,S NOT MENT FOR THAT SPEED, HOPE THAT HELPS GIVE TI A SHOT

4GB Kingston RAM Upgrade New MB???

I have a brand spanking new Macbook purchased directly from the Apple store, which came with 2 GB RAM, 160 SATA HD, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 processor. The user manual and apple's website says I can upgrade to 4GB of RAM (2x 2GB modules). So I order 2 - 2GB Ram chip of Kingston brand from NewEgg, for $65. Got them today, popped out the factory installed Ram Chips and seated in the new ones. Power up the macbook and I get the chime and the apple logo with the little spinning wheel, but then the screen display a black translucent box tell me that I must restart. So OK, I restart thinking that it need to update its bios with the new memory amount... on restart same thing...
So I reseated the ram at 5 times and 5 reboots and still the same problem. Put old ram back and it booted up just find and display a warning about not being able start previously, so I viewed the log and the memory dump states something about RAM Panic ????
The Kingston ram I bought is 2 modules of 2GB DDR2 PC2 5300 (667 MHz), which exactly what I was suppose to buy.
Now reading through these forums it looks like a mixed bag of user getting 3rd party ram to work or not work.
Any ideas... or could I just have bad memory.

Googood.... Thanks for your idea! One of the new chips worked with one of the old chips and one new one did not work... so it's going back for replacement.
Thanks a bunch.
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Will Kingston RAM kvr1333d3n9/4g work on my MBP15 early 2011?

I'm looking foward adding some extra RAM to boost my Macbook Pro 15 early 2011.
I wonder if this kingston model (kvr1333d3n9/4g) will get the job done.
If so, I'll get 2 dimms to take it to 8GB.

I would choose something from Apple or Crutial, I am not personally experienxed with Kingston, but I'm sure someone else will jump in on this and further this disscussion.
Hope thsi helps,
Best

Kingston RAM, Help?

Hi!
I recently bought another PC3200 Kingston KVR400/512R Value RAM to go alone with the other, making 1Gig of RAM. The first RAM I used by itself for about a week in DIMM1 before adding this one. After adding this one in DIMM2, my system would boot up and would hold at the windows screen. I went into the bios and changed both to 200Mhz, and now it works. I even tried 266Mhz but that doesn't work either. Can't I at least go up to 333Mhz on each? I do not know much about what to set frequency at and what not...

BockVB
Check this thread RAM not running at full speed? it's just a few lines down from your original. Looks like they had a simalar problem and got it sorted.
Best Wishes
Jerry

Experiences Using Kingston Ram

Hi,
Anyone her using this Kingston HyperX DIMM Kit 1024MB PC3200 DDR CL2-2-2-6-1T KHX3200K2/1G?
Please post your experiences in here, I'm not able to get pass POST with them.
May other voltages/timings help?
Thank you in advance.
TheChosn

I have a K8T master2 duel board running a single 240. Yes I do have kingston 1 gig HyperX 400 ecc registered. It does work fine. I do have a question does anyone know the settings for the voltage for the ram is? Im new to this registered ram stuff and Im primarily using this machine as a maya render tool.
DVS

Please help with 4 sticks of Kingston RAM

Hello. I bought the 875P-LSR Neo board and have been having nothing but troubles with it. Maybe someone here can give me some help. I have a P4 3.2 GHZ CPU (NOT the extreme one), an ATI 9800XT video card. I bought 4 512MB sticks of Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 which is on their approved memory list. I cannot get this board to work with 4 sticks of RAM, even when I set it to BIOS defaults. I have updated to BIOS 1.9, or whatever the lastest is. It just posts, loads XP then reboots. I don't want to overclock or anything, I just want to run at 3.2 GHZ with 2 GB of RAM. If I run two sticks in slots 1 and 3 it runs ok, but I get ALOT of program crashed in XP. I'm sure it has something to do with memory speeds or voltages, I am just letting the board config the memory, I think it is using 2.5,4,4,8 and 2.6 V. Anyone out there have any suggestions for getting this memory to work. In reading the boards I saw that this board has problems with 4 memory sticks. They shouldn't be advertising this board can handle 4 GB of RAM if that is the case. Any advice is greatly appreciated

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Originally posted by cenolar
I am also trying to get 4 512 Kingston moduels to work. I have to set the voltage to at least 2.8V to get the system to boot up. But even when it boots up, I get the blue screen of death after about 20 minutes. I have tried the suggested timings but I still have the same issues.
It seems to run fine with just 2 modules, but I bought 4 for a reason!
I am now contemplating a new MOBO. Any suggestions?
I have read so many posts on kingston memory not working or reading wrong spd's my advice would be get some OCZ . Just my 2 penny's worth

MBR CoreDuo 2 and kingston ram

Hi there!
I guess thit topic has been discussed but still I'd be very grateful for any oppinions.
I have 1Gb (from the beggining) of ram in my MBP.
I want to buy 1Gb more. I've decided to go for Kingston because one from apple is to expensive and I know kingston producec good memory. But kingston has a lot of 1Gb modules, could anyone please tell me which model to buy? (KTA...???).
They differ in price within different modules.
I want it to work with my original 1GB, please let me know of your experiences.
Thanks a lot
Adam Mscisz

You should ONLY buy RAM which have a model number prefixed by KTA-MB667 excepting KTA-MB667K2 models (these are in kits of 2 SODIMMs and are typically aimed at Mac mini and MacBook owners who want to match SODIMMs). These models have been tested and are rated for use in a MacBook Pro.
The 1GB part number you want to buy is KTA-MB667/1G.

Is Kingston Ram in K7N2 Delta ILSR board still taboo?

Its been a long time since I posted anything here, and am wondering if memory has improved any for the delta-islr boards? I have searched the forum and all posts regarding the Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G or KHX3200AK2/1G modules are 2-3 yrs old. I had one of my infineon modules die so I thought I would upgrade to at least a Gig. I found the MSI site now only lists Kingston as the recommended ram, so have things gotten any better? Is there a better choice?

Quote from: Stu on 06-January-08, 21:06:37
Yes but if you choose Corsair or Kingston, only use the performance stuff, not the cheap ValueSelect or ValueRAM lines
Nforce2 is a performance chipset, and works best with performance memory
Yes, it was the cheap stuff I bought. I did find the TWINX2048-3200C2PT modules today for the same or less than what I paid for the value select but its out of stock. If it comes in before my 30 day return policy, I will upgrade it again.
So whats so bad about the value select? It's running fine for me, I dont really do any o/c'ing but I have thought about playing around with it.

845GE Max L and Kingston RAM problems

I'm building a system using an MSI 845GE Max L mobo, P4 2.4 and a 512MB stick of Kingston PC2700 DDR ValueRAM. When I turned the computer on the first time, it started, then immediately turned off, and then came on again. When I tried to install WinXP, it always stopped at some point with a BSOD complaining about problems with the NTFS Master File Table. Yet the hard drive and NTFS setup checked out OK and did all hardware, connections, etc. I switched to another power supply and removed/disconnected everything except the bare essentials. Still the same problems. Finally, the system started freezing after turning off and then back on. I couldn't even get into the CMOS.
When I pulled out the RAM stick and substituted a 512MB stick of Kingston PC2100, everything proceeded perfectly. Does anybody know of any problems the 845GE Max has had with Kingston PC2700 ValueRAM? I guess it could be sick RAM, but I somehow recall hearing past complaints about Kingston ValueRAM and some MSI boards.
Thanks for any help!
Larc

Thanks for the suggestion, but that unfortunately doesn't work. When I put the culprit RAM module in and upped DDR voltage to 2.6, boot failed. MemTest wouldn't start and I had no video.
When I ran MemTest with the bad RAM in place last night, I stupidly allowed the system to boot into XP after the test finished. WinXP was trashed! The system wouldn't boot into Win even after I put in good RAM. Thank goodness it was a new installation and nothing had been installed except XP.
It looks as if I not only got a bad stick of RAM, but a vicious one at that!
Thanks again for your help.
Larc

Kingston RAM advice

Dear all,
Will the following RAM work safely in a 24" 3.06Ghz model imac?
I want to upgrade to 4GB.
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/5500556/Kingston-KTA-MB800-1G-2Gb-DDR2-800-For-App le-Imac-3-06/Product.html#
Is it a simple case of removing the old ones and inserting the new ones?
Many thanks

got the same as you Fireball but i used Crucial memory i think its cheeper mate. You have to throw the original memory and sell on ebay. Both slots already full with 2 * 1gb sticks, this has to be replaced with 2 * 2gb sticks for £35 inc vat i think. Dead easy job takes minutes to do the only nerve racking thing is you have to lay your imac down on its screen. Try this link http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=iMac%203.06GHz%20Intel%20Co re%202%20Duo%20%2824-inch%29&pl=Apple&cat=RAM
however they have a system scanner use this just to make sure .

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