The Different Types Of Notebook RAM

January 25th, 2008 by admin

When buying notebook memory, you must know exactly what type of RAM your laptop currently uses. There are three main types of RAM: SDRAM, DDR and Rambus DRAM. SDRAM stands for Synchronous DRAM and it’s one of the older types, as new generations of memory such as DDR and RDRAM are now required to get proper performance. DDR means Double Data Rate SDRAM and DDR basically doubles the rate of data transfer of standard SDRAM by transferring data on the up and down tick of a clock cycle. RDRAM is top notch but comes at a higher price. Despite it’s higher price, Intel has given RDRAM it’s blessing for the consumer market, and it will be the sole choice of memory for Intel’s Pentium 4. RDRAM is a serial memory technology that arrived in three flavors.

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