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History Williams Tube DRAM ROM

Previous Types of RAM DRAM SRAM Asynchronous vs Synchronous Single Data SDRAM (SD SDRAM)

Main Types of Memory DDR DDR2 ◦Improvements in memory bandwidth, clock rates, and voltages DDR3 ◦Increase in clock rates and decrease in voltages  However, only a 2%-5% increase in performance RDRAM

Memory Package Types SIMM DIMM RIMM SO-DIMM

Characteristics Packaging Capacity Frequency CAS latency Error Correction Buffered Single/Double-Sided Single vs Dual vs Triple Channel

Popular Brands for DDR3 RAM Corsair Samsung Micron Crucial Kingston

Corsair Ram

Memory Testing

Passmark Software Memory Benchmarks

What are the RAM types?

What are the packaging types?

Select the fastest and highest capacity memory configuration: ◦A. 2 Gb DDR MHz ◦B. 2x1 Gb DDR MHz ◦C. 4x512 Mb DDR 400 MHz ◦D. 2 Gb DDR MHz

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