CS/IS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 2Gb, Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory, Serial Presence Detect
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Ram (memory) is based on a square. When a bigger chip is made for memory, the size is doubled. When you double each side, you are making it 4 times bigger. The memory step up for ram is 256mb, 1gb, 4gb, 16gb, 32gb, 64gb. 512mb ram, 2gb and etc. are double sided ram. Downside: few motherboards that will have incompatibility with it. For dual channel memory, you have to put two ram sticks of the same size and same speed into very specific slots. Motherboard book will tell you which slots are the dual channel memory. If you don"t put both sticks, some motherboards will not boot. You need to put identical ram sticks on one channel. You can put ram on one channel that"s faster than the other channel, however, you can"t put two different ram capacity sizes in two different channels.
