memory

[therowguy]

Is there any way to determine the amount(in megabytes) of memory just by viewing the stick? I know you can tell what type of memory, but I need to figure out how much memory it is. I don't have a pc that can put this type of memory into to check. If it helps the stick of memory i have is 72-pin simm edo.

 

[ANFPS26]

The easiest way is to install it and let the PC tell you. You have to install EDO in pairs, also. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

 

[therowguy]

i know that's the easiest way to determine the memory, but i don't have a pc that will run the edo. About a year ago I worked on a pc with edo memory. I added more memory and have these two sticks of edo left over. I wanted to sell this memory but obviously i need to figure out how much it is before i set a price. it's either 8mb or 16mb, but i can't tell. thanks anyway.

 

[fluxvoovoo]

seems like more and more of the memory vendors are at least putting a small sticker on the stick that tells you a fair amount. For instance I'm looking at a stick of SDRAM and the sticker says PC-100 - Q-8sd64.
Of course it's PC100-(100 mhz.)- in this case it has 8 chipsets on the stick (That would be my guess) - and it is 64 meg.

here's another- A kingston - number -KTM66X64X64
In this case it tells us 66 mhz - 64 meg.
The numbers on the chips themselves don't always follow any rhyme or reason it would seem.

 

[cdogg]

It is almost impossible to tell just by counting the memory modules on EDO. I've still got 4 sticks from an older system - one set is 8MB and the other is 64MB. On the 8MB stick, there are 4 modules (so each are 2 MB in size). On the 64MB stick, there are 8 modules (each being 8MB).

Do you see any numbers written on the 72-pin EDO stick? It would look something like this:

4 x 36-60

-- The first number value represents 1/4th of the total memory size. In this example, it would be a 16MB stick of EDO (4 x 4).

-- The second value indicates parity. 36 means with parity and 32 means without.

-- The third and final number indicates speed in nanoseconds (usually 60 or 70 with the lower number being faster)
~cdogg

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