Matched Sticks of Ram on notebooks?

I recall back in the day when I used to be into overclocking on the PC/desktop side of things, people used to swear by matched ram kits for dual channel/overclocking stability.

Would this be an issue when trying to upgrade my Macbook Pro to 4GB of RAM? Obviously overclocking is out of the question but I'm wondering if there will be slightly slower performance or possibly stability issues.

The reason I ask is because the price differential between buying two sticks of 2GB of ram separately compared to a 2x2GB kit is about $50 (depending on where you're shopping).

See Frys Pricing

 

Have a read of this thread. I would expect the results to be applicable to a Macbook with the same underlying hardware.

John

 

It really depends to be honest with you, though normally I refuse to mix different RAM brands or even models. The best way to check is to run Memtest, but by then you've already wasted your money if you run into issues. The best deal I found on 2GB RAM if you need DDR2 667 is this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2853405&CatId=2268

Corsair Value Select is the exact same as Corsair Performance Series except it doesn't overclock whatsoever. (Benchmarks have been done comparing the two brands, same performance just Value Select doesn't overclock at all)

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=121363

Consensus on this board is that dual channel isn't a factor anymore. As for proof, I'm sure you can google that.

 

Thanks for the quick responses! Hoping to pull the trigger on something this weekend.