Originally Posted by mikec

I'm confused here..........the black chips on a stick of ram are the memory. the stick is a circuit board, and the chips are the physical memory. some sticks have memory on one side only (SIMM), some have chips on both sides (DIMM). Here's an explanation, and it took about 20 seconds to find, by googling "DIMM" - http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DIMM.html

wtf? Zeraph you owe R3d an apology.