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Does it matter if all the ram chips are on one side of the module or should they be distributed across both sides

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Here's a good video explaining it

You're interested in the 2nd half of the video about memory ranks

 

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just want to buy a new ram module and there is price difference so just curious. Volatge and speed and cl is same

 

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ram chips on one side is single rank dimm, chips on both sides is dual rank dimm.

Dual rank tends to not clock as well as single rank but has different (usually better) performance characteristics

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Here's a good video explaining it

You're interested in the 2nd half of the video about memory ranks

 

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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