Mac Pro Memory benchmarking

[macphanatic]

Looking for benchmark data for Mac Pros with different memory amounts. Found some info for other Apple systems on OWC's website, but nothing specific to Mac Pros.

[jdc]

depends on what you are doing with it?

http://www.barefeats.com/

[macphanatic]

I've got the 2.66 with 3 gig of ram. (stock 2 x 512 and OWC 2 x 1 gig). Occasionally get the beachball when doing multiple items such as handbrake, web surfing, image editing (minor). Thinking about adding 4 gig.

[jdc]

3 gigs should be way more than enough

although handbrake uses a lot of processor

on my 24" AL iMac i have 4 gigs, i run quark 7, photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat, suitcase, the entire office suite and safari with at least 10 tabs

i never see a beach ball...

but if i had a macpro i would have at least 8 gigs

[BigGuynRusty]

3GB's is not enough for a MacPro, despite the sworn testimony of a fellow forum folk who've never touched one.
Your MacPro has Four CPU's, think about a minimum of 6GB's.

BGnR

[clay]

my mp 2.66 has 9gb's. Doing some heavy lifting in FCP Studio and CS3 as well as ripping DVDs, I have yet to get a spinning beach ball. I've maxxed out the processor load, but things still run. With memory being so cheap, it seemed like kind of a no-brainer when I was purchasing it.