Long DIMM vs DIMM

[Srikar__]

can i use a long DIMM in my pc in place of DIMM slot. Will it fit or not

[matt0725]

dimm usually refers to your RAM slots, and those are fixed in size so i'm not sure what you mean. Welcome to the forums though!

 

EDIT: are you talking about a laptop? sodimm isnt compatible

[Srikar__]

does that mean I have to check my PC 

[matt0725]

do you have a normal PC or a laptop? are you asking about RAM? you need to elaborate. what are your system specs

[Srikar__]

I am having a 2x2gb DDR3 DIMM ram. I want to upgrade them to 1x8gb DDR3 ram, but seller is showing that ram's form factor is long DIMM. So can I use it.

[matt0725]

some googling shows long dimm as being what most of us would call regular dimm. so it should work if you dont have a laptop.

[Srikar__]

6 minutes ago, matt0725 said:

do you have a normal PC or a laptop? are you asking about RAM? you need to elaborate. what are your system specs

I have a PC.                                                        Yes, I am asking about RAM. can I use rams with different form factors on same motherboard

Specs  :-

CPU: Intel i3 - 2120

Intel Integrated GPU

2x2GB DDR3 ram

128 GB SSD

[mariushm]

There's SO-DIMM which is a smaller ram stick, for laptops, and there's regular DIMM, which is the normal size ram sticks.

 

You need regular DDR3 sticks.

You also have to be careful and check if your motherboard actually supports 8 GB sticks. Some chipsets had limitations which only made it possible to use sticks up to 4 GB in size.

Your motherboard may also have 4 slots in  total, which means you could just add 2  4 GB sticks and keep the existing 2 x 2 GB sticks.

So start by determining what motherboard model you have - if you don't know it should be printed somewhere on the motherboard or you can find it with tools like HWInfo64 or Aida64 or maybe even CPU-Z

 

[Blue4130]

30 minutes ago, Srikar__ said:

I am having a 2x2gb DDR3 DIMM ram. I want to upgrade them to 1x8gb DDR3 ram, but seller is showing that ram's form factor is long DIMM. So can I use it.

Share the links, and tell us what motherboard you have. That will help us to help you.

[Srikar__]

17 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

Share the links, and tell us what motherboard you have. That will help us to help you.

I have a Zebronics H61 DDR3 motherboard

[Srikar__]

17 minutes ago, mariushm said:

There's SO-DIMM which is a smaller ram stick, for laptops, and there's regular DIMM, which is the normal size ram sticks.

 

You need regular DDR3 sticks.

You also have to be careful and check if your motherboard actually supports 8 GB sticks. Some chipsets had limitations which only made it possible to use sticks up to 4 GB in size.

Your motherboard may also have 4 slots in  total, which means you could just add 2  4 GB sticks and keep the existing 2 x 2 GB sticks.

So start by determining what motherboard model you have - if you don't know it should be printed somewhere on the motherboard or you can find it with tools like HWInfo64 or Aida64 or maybe even CPU-Z

 

my motherboard has only two ram slots. So I think i can use 8 gb sticks.