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n0nsensical · 03-22-2005, 06:51 PM

First, SIMMs and DIMMs won't even fit in the same sockets so you'd know if you got the wrong kind. Second, DIMMs do not necessarily have RAM chips on both sides of the board. The "dual" only refers to the fact that there are two "banks" of chips whereas SIMMs have only one (each bank, for example, may hold 32-bit words either with 4 8-bit wide RAMs, 2 16-bit wide RAMs, or what have you. Each chip is one RAM.).

That said, I'm sure we've all made factual errors in our posts even when we think we know what we're talking about. I think the best way to handle that is simply to politely correct it and not imply anything about that person's continued posting. SIMM and DIMM have both become rather archaic terms and there are SO many other acronyms that determine whether memory will play nice together, SDRAM, DDR, RIMM, DDR2, ECC, it goes on and on, so you should be as SPECIFIC as possible.

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n0nsensical Junkie Location: San Francisco	First, SIMMs and DIMMs won't even fit in the same sockets so you'd know if you got the wrong kind. Second, DIMMs do not necessarily have RAM chips on both sides of the board. The "dual" only refers to the fact that there are two "banks" of chips whereas SIMMs have only one (each bank, for example, may hold 32-bit words either with 4 8-bit wide RAMs, 2 16-bit wide RAMs, or what have you. Each chip is one RAM.). That said, I'm sure we've all made factual errors in our posts even when we think we know what we're talking about. I think the best way to handle that is simply to politely correct it and not imply anything about that person's continued posting. SIMM and DIMM have both become rather archaic terms and there are SO many other acronyms that determine whether memory will play nice together, SDRAM, DDR, RIMM, DDR2, ECC, it goes on and on, so you should be as SPECIFIC as possible. __________________ "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln Last edited by n0nsensical; 03-22-2005 at 06:53 PM..