Transcend, one of the world's leading memory module manufacturers, has joined a growing number of memory manufacturers offering Fully-Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) memory designed specifically for Apple's high-end Mac Pro system.

The new module is a 240-pin, 2GB, DDR2-800 piece and has Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB) and Error Correction Code (ECC), which monitors the data that gets transferred in and out of memory and performs real-time correction of any errors found.

The FB-DIMM is made of 18 high-quality, 70nm, 128Mx8, DDR2 DRAM chips and has a high-quality heat-sink with cooling fins and highly conductive thermal compound for better thermal dissipation.

Based on Intel's Xeon 5400 Quad Core platform, the Mac Pro has a total of eight FB-DIMM memory slots, of which only two are used in standard configuration (2 x 1GB FB-DIMMs).

Transcend's latest FB-DIMM gives Mac Pro users the option to fully populate all eight slots for a total capacity of 16GB and, with the Mac Pro's very efficient memory architecture, that supports four simultaneous memory channels, delivering bandwidth transfer rates of up to 25GB per second.

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