Part Information – Memory/RAM

There are a few things you have to note when deciding on the type of RAM you want to get. To be honest, the specs of the RAM are various for almost every card. The first thing that I tend to notice with RAM is the amount of pins it has. Today, the most common types of pins are 240-pin, but a few years ago, they had 200 pin and 184 pin. You have to pay attention to what your motherboard allows you to use for the pins size, but most common pin sizes today are 240. The next thing that you want to pay attention to is the mhz. Your motherboard also specifies the amount of Mhz allowed, because it has to match up with what the processor would be able to work with. They use to run down to 266 Mhz, but now they go up to 1600 mhz. This is important to note, because getting an incompatible Mhz with the motherboard, could cause damage to your system. The last thing you want to note is how much memory it uses. Those uses to be measured in 256 megabytes and 512 megabytes, but now things are measured in gigabytes. For example, you can buy sticks with 2 gigabytes of memory, or sticks with 4 gigabytes of memory. You have to notice how much RAM your motherboard can support, let alone your operating system. If you have Windows 7 64-bit, then it can support up to 16 gigabytes of memory. If you have an older operating system, like windows xp 32-bit, then that would only support up to 6 GB of memory.