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Name: Oceanb70
Date: October 4, 2003 at 01:46:17 Pacific
OS: Win2000
CPU/Ram: p3 600Mhz/ 392
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Hi, Just to check with you all about this. Recently i just bought a second hand Kingston Ram and realise that it is DIMM Ram. but inside my pc are all SIMM. All the Ram are PC 133 Kingston. Same brand and same speed. Is it alright to put it together????



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Name: jam
Date: October 4, 2003 at 06:08:23 Pacific
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I highly doubt you have a P3 machine with SIMMs...possibly you're confusing single sided & double sided DIMMs? SIMMs have 72-pins...PC133 DIMMs have 168-pins. Will they be recognized by your P3 board? You won't know til you try...many older boards have a problem with high density RAM (generally single sided), if that's what you have, it's possible that the board will only recognize half the capacity (128 will be seen as 64, 256 as 128, etc)


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Name: Maj. Buzz
Date: October 4, 2003 at 06:46:26 Pacific
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SIMM - Single Inline Memory Module
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module

The difference is whether chips are on both sides of the module or one. If the module is the correct type (i.e corect number of pins), as jam said above, plug it in to see. If something is wrong, you might ear beeps when trying to start it up. It won't harm anything, though.

Buzz


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: October 4, 2003 at 08:30:29 Pacific
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Actually, SIMMs can be either sided single sided or double sided...it's the pin count that will distinguish a SIMM from a DIMM


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