By Metatron72
Fri Jul 18, 2014 7:05 am
Trust us. Match that spec your RAM will be $5-$10. Been confirmed by 100's if not 1000's of members here. Akai was just buying off the shelf modules and selling them at an insane markup.
There's no stability issue really. Either RAM works or it doesn't. But the spec I listed is the spec for the 5001000/2500. On eBay and other online vendors you can almost always read the spec sticker and buy knowing it will work following that posted spec.
All the RAM for these units whether the Akai marked up price gouge (the sticks are cheap Centron RAM I bet) or one you source are 256MB. Akai just puts 128MB on the sticker as that will be the usable and addressed amount. If you were to put a 128MB module in you'd get only 64MB. The way they designed the machines they only actually read half the module. Hence all maxed units are using 256MB modules.
There's no stability issue really. Either RAM works or it doesn't. But the spec I listed is the spec for the 5001000/2500. On eBay and other online vendors you can almost always read the spec sticker and buy knowing it will work following that posted spec.
All the RAM for these units whether the Akai marked up price gouge (the sticks are cheap Centron RAM I bet) or one you source are 256MB. Akai just puts 128MB on the sticker as that will be the usable and addressed amount. If you were to put a 128MB module in you'd get only 64MB. The way they designed the machines they only actually read half the module. Hence all maxed units are using 256MB modules.