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How to find out ... Bus speed & Type of RAM i.e DDR2/R3 by lucking at the photo

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/how-to-find-out-bus-speed-type-of-ram-i-e-ddr2-r3-by-lucking-at-the-photo.166290/

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Duke Original post #1
Nov 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM
hi guyz i wan't to add more RAM to my pc... i got to know that in order to add RAM they should have same bus speed.. so can u guyz tell me what is my bus speed & how to differentiate b/w R2/R3 By luking at the below pics :)
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anirbandd
Nov 17, 2012 at 11:17 AM
the Notch. google notch position for ram types.
Hrishi
Hrishi #3
Nov 17, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Yours is a PC3-10600 . Means DDR3 Ram with 1333mhz clock.

Memory Clock : 166(2/3)
Cycles : 6 ns
I/O bus clock : 666 Mhz.
Data Rate : 1333 Mt/s.
Highest transfer rate : 10666MB/s
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Duke #4
Nov 17, 2012 at 11:45 AM
So which ram should i buy the one with bus clock 666Mhz.??
coderunknown
Nov 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM
if you have only a single stick of DDR3 1GB, replace it with a single stick of DDR3 1333Mhz 4GB.