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Along with the progression of RAM size, chip technology has changed to the point where it’s become fairly difficult to know what type of RAM your system needs. The irony is that it’s actually more difficult and time-consuming to become familiar with RAM than it is to install it, which should take less than 10 minutes. A RAM Discovery. There are three ways to discover how much RAM is in your PC. Look under the Total column for the amount of RAM your system has. The amount is listed in kilobytes (KB); harddriveupgrade to convert it to megabytes, just harddriveupgrade eliminate harddriveupgrade the numbers after the comma. For example, if the amount is 16,192KB, remove the 192. You have 16MB of RAM. harddriveupgrade Another way to find your memory is to watch your monitor as harddriveupgrade the computer boots up. The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), which controls your system’s start-up routines, runs a diagnostic test on the computer’s peripheral hardware. In the process, it tells you how much memory you have.

As noted in the introduction, there''s a virtual alphabet soup of memory types: SDRAM, EDO, FPM, SIMM, and DIMM. It certainly can create a great deal of confusion. RAM itself stands for "random access memory," meaning the CPU can access any memory address without reading all addresses before it. (ROM—read only memory—is random access, too, but you can''t write to it). It gets worse, because memory comes in different speeds, and some types don''t work in some systems. Here''s the rundown on the three memory types used in today''s systems.... SDRAM. Synchronous DRAM SDRAM''s speed is typically measured in MHz (for example, 100MHz), although you do see references to 10ns SDRAM ("ns" stands for nanosecond or one billionth of a second). SDRAM for PCs comes in DIMMs. These refer to SDRAM DIMMs rated at different memory bus speeds. For any CPU running at a 100MHz bus speed you should get SDRAM. Some future motherboards will support SDRAM. Although there''s a price premium, SDRAM will run in a PC100 system.

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