How do I know which RAM to get?
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Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2010-10-14 12:40 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Have you tried wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDRAM
Quote:
Difference between DDRxxx and DDR PCyyyy is a factor of 8, sometimes rounded up to the nearest 100. Why 8? Memory sticks are 64 bits wide or 8 bytes.|
Originally Posted by Wavicle
I looked up my motherboard and found some info about the RAM it can take that included the following:
DDR PC2700 DDR PC3200 and in another place: DDR400/333/266/200 DDR SDRAM Can someone help me understand what the difference between these varieties is and why I might want one over another? Also any suggestions about where to buy it would be helpful. Is Newegg the best? It seemed there like most chips are about $40 each, is there any way to get them cheaper than that? |
DDR 400 = PC3200
DDR 333 = PC2700
400 is the speed in MHz, 3200 is the bandwidth of the stick in megabytes per second.
Use a utility like CPU-Z to see what you currently have installed.
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Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.
I looked up my motherboard and found some info about the RAM it can take that included the following:
DDR PC2700
DDR PC3200
and in another place:
DDR400/333/266/200 DDR SDRAM
Can someone help me understand what the difference between these varieties is and why I might want one over another?
Also any suggestions about where to buy it would be helpful. Is Newegg the best? It seemed there like most chips are about $40 each, is there any way to get them cheaper than that?
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.