Buying ram with certain type of mobo

[jonnyu]

Hello, I recently posted in the motherboard forum about upgrading my system and was advised to purchase a Gigabyte GA-8ISXT-FS. One person wrote:

"I'd also get another stick of PC2700. Now, the board I recommended can support dual-channel mode, but you need a module with the same chip layout (same number of chips, same number of banks, etc) in order to get dual-channel mode functioning. It's a great board in single-channel, but much better in dual-channel mode.

It's likely most of the RAM you'll find on the market follows the same layout as the module you already have. But if you want to increase the likelyhood of dual-channel operation even more, you'll want to find out more about the module you have. I'm sure if you ask nicely in the Memory forum for an application to detect memory specifics, someone will find you one."

As someone who doesn't understand too much about computers, most of this doesn't make sense to me - except the last part of course😉 So could anyone help me detect what type of RAM I'm using?

 

[Cybercraig]

You can Google CPU-ID and use it to ID the memory stick. You can also look at the stick itself and see what chips are on it and the PCB board should have a brand name on it. If it is a 256 module it probably has 4 chips on one side (single-sided). A 512mb stick might have 4 chips on each side (double-sided). My experience with dual-channel tells me that these sticks do not have to be exactly the same to run right in dual-channel. But, the closer the better!

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