Memory question

[gbpec7]

What is the difference between a single sided memory module and a double sided memory module?
Both sticks are PC-2700, both are 256MB's, but different brand names.

[jerrygarcia]

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t44232.html

[gbpec7]

thanks jerry for the link but it didn't tell me much. I need to know if the single sided stick is high density or is it the double sided stick. I think I know that the single sided is high but I'm just not sure.

[JeremyPC]

Tip: Dense = More.

[gbpec7]

Tip: Dense = More.

ok????
so what are you saying, high density modules have more chips??

[dr_roberts49]

I consider myself a tech kind of guy, but I've always thought it would be nice if ram manufacturers would actually put something on their chips and/or sticks that said in plain simple words, what it is!!! 256MG or 512MG. Instead, most if not all have a combo of numbers and letters that make no sense at all, except to the manufacturer. It's like reading a bar-code, without the code book. Utilities like Sandra will tell you, if they're onboard, but I've collected a lot of different ram sticks over the years from myself, and from other people. I've managed to catalog my own sticks, by placing them in anti-static bags, and putting a lable on them as to what they are, but I have a lot of GOK (God only knows) chips, that I have no clear idea of what they are, until I plug them in. There's got to be a better way.

Robert

[Ultima]

the single sided stick is the high density one, since it has the same amount of ram spread over less chips, thus, the amount of Mb's per chip is higher.

[gbpec7]

dr_roberts49 , thanks for the reply I also have some of those GOK memory sticks around here.

Ultima, I kinda figgerd that was the way it was. Thank you for your straight answer.