macbook 2.0ghz white w/1gb ram glitching fixed

**laurens** · 12-26-2008, 01:09 AM

I had been having problems with Traktor Pro and my macbook with only having 1gb of ram, getting artifacts, glitches and cpu spikes all the time.
I tried everything, but I always knew it would be the ram, especially since the GMA950 graphics card uses the ram aswell since it is bulit in.

I can confirm that this is fixed now since I got installed 2x2gb. It runs like a dream now. I can ever start the track synced before it has been analyzed.

It's like going from belt driven turntables to directdrive...haha. It was pretty unusable before.

I know that my macbook being 32bit only utilizes 3gb of the 4gb. But I was reading this

http://eshop.macsales.com/Reviews/Ma...ory_Benchmarks

and apparently pairing the ram is somewhat of a better option. (even if I will recognize it) Hate odd numbers anyway, lol, can't really complain at $115 NZ dollars, which works out to be chicken feed to all you US guys.

Just had to share this boring post with you since I can actually dj again now.

**BentoSan** · 12-26-2008, 01:19 AM

Welcome back to the game

**JesC** · 12-26-2008, 03:44 AM

Laurens you were better off pair the ram with 2x1gb of the same ram to take advantage of the DDR. But atleast you upgraded from 2x512mb!

**laurens** · 12-26-2008, 04:01 AM

yea I know what you mean, from the trials on that site 2x2gb is alot more effective in apps like photoshop and others which I use alot of. There doesn't seem to be any advantage of getting 2x1gb. What do you mean by take advantage of the DDR?

I guess there are a hundred other variables you could factor in aswell.

**JesC** · 12-26-2008, 04:57 AM

when you have matching ram your comp is faster du2 having 2x1gb ddr2 ram vs 1x2gb 1x1gb ddr2 is how your macbook is seeing the ram.

**laurens** · 12-26-2008, 05:15 AM

ok, i kinda see what you mean, but I would still rather have 3gb working than 2gb. For the purpose that I animate and render video every now and then.

**BentoSan** · 12-26-2008, 06:28 AM

The term is called "dual ram" - basicly if you have 2 sticks of ram that are the same speed and size it uses a technique that makes the ram work faster than 2 sticks of ram would indepedently of one another.