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A Question About DDDR and PCXXXX

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Ekfewlf

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Jul 13, 2011
So I'm in the market for some RAM. I have been browsing newegg, and I noticed something that kind of confused me.
When looking at the DDR3XXXX of a memory card, it also saying PCXXXX afterwards.
How can you find out what kind of PC you're motherboard is running?
 
check in mainboard manual, there should be info what RAM your board supports ... it's like DDR3xxxx = frequency , PC3xxxxx = theoretical max bandwidth so:
DDR3-1333 = PC3-10600
DDR3-1600 = PC3-12800
DDR3-2000 = PC3-16000
...
 
DDR xxxx and PCxxxx are just different ways of expressing data throughput capability. the latter is a carry over from before there was DDR technology.
 
That interesting, i knew DDR and PC were linked linearly and effectively just re stating the same data, didnt know why or where it came from.
 
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