Identify DDR Version by looking at the slot?

[ClobberXD]

This is an interview question : 

 

How would you identify the version of DIMM, compatible with the motherboard, by looking at the slot itself?

 

Answers, anyone?

[EIijah]

2 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

This is an interview question : 

 

How would you identify the version of DIMM, compatible with the motherboard, by looking at the slot itself?

 

Answers, anyone?

Where the notch is, they do have a different amount of pins but too hard to tell that on a slot

 

Interview for what? and it seems like a silly question

[ClobberXD]

1 minute ago, EIijah said:

Where the notch is, they do have a different amount of pins but too hard to tell that on a slot

 

Interview for what? and it seems like a silly question

Oh! It's a casual 'interview' our Computer Science teacher asked us... But you can vaguely pinpoint the type of DIMM by the number and position of the notches, right?

[EIijah]

2 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

Oh! It's a casual 'interview' our Computer Science teacher asked us... But you can vaguely pinpoint the type of DIMM by the number and position of the notches, right?

I would never trust my guess, that's a really stupid question for your teacher to ask  Is this highschool? at Uni we've been told that identifying it off the motherboard alone is too hard to be 100% right because ddr2 and 3 are very similar.

[tendstofortytwo]

The notches would be similarly placed to these images:

 

 

 

 

[EIijah]

Just now, EIijah said:

I would never trust my guess, that's a really stupid question for your teacher to ask  Is this highschool? at Uni we've been told that identifying it off the motherboard alone is too hard to be 100% right because ddr2 and 3 are very similar.

 

[ClobberXD]

2 minutes ago, EIijah said:

I would never trust my guess, that's a really stupid question for your teacher to ask  Is this highschool? at Uni we've been told that identifying it off the motherboard alone is too hard to be 100% right because ddr2 and 3 are very similar.

Highscool it is!

[EIijah]

Just now, anandgeforce said:

Highscool it is!

Ah yeah, you can get some pretty stupid stuff there. In my computer class, the cooking class had an identical assignment because the school viewed them both as "Technology Classes" so we had the food teacher marking our computer assignments (Giving us bad grades because she didn't know what was right and wrong) and the computer teacher marking cooking assignments....

[NumLock21]

There is a way, not through those notches. The answer is right in front of you, but most don't notice it.

[Lolucoca]

I'd actually look at the socket, you can vaguely identify the ram by doing so. Except for LGA 775, which ranges from DDR1 to DDR3.

[ClobberXD]

21 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

There is a way, not through those notches. The answer is right in front of you, but most don't notice it.

My monitor is the answer? 'cuz that's what's in front of me.

 

No seriously, what's the answer man? Riddles aren't my cup o' tea!

[NumLock21]

3 hours ago, anandgeforce said:

My monitor is the answer? 'cuz that's what's in front of me.

 

No seriously, what's the answer man? Riddles aren't my cup o' tea!

Go look extremely carefully at the ram slot and you will see something.

 

 

[FruitBasketSilex]

29 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Go look extremely carefully at the ram slot and you will see something.

 

 

"I can see the electrons flowing through it!"

[NumLock21]

12 minutes ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

"I can see the electrons flowing through it!"

No, literally look at the ram slot itself.

 

[FruitBasketSilex]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

No, literally look at the ram slot itself.

 

*sigh*

What is it like being a robot that doesn't understand humour?

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, FruitBasketSilex said:

*sigh*

What is it like being a robot that doesn't understand humour?

So u know the answer?

[Coaxialgamer]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

So u know the answer?

well , it does say "ddr3" on my motherboard

[NumLock21]

4 hours ago, Coaxialgamer said:

well , it does say "ddr3" on my motherboard

Close but, nope that's not it. It's physically on the ram slot itself. Might need a magnifier to see it.

[Coaxialgamer]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Close but, nope that's not it. It's physically on the ram slot itself. Might need a magnifier to see it.

Apart from the notch position ,  i dont see anything else. 

[ClobberXD]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Close but, nope that's not it. It's physically on the ram slot itself. Might need a magnifier to see it.

I don't see much more than the notch. Are you telling me to count the pins in the slot? Maybe my motherboard doesn't have what you're talking about...

[Coaxialgamer]

2 minutes ago, anandgeforce said:

I don't see much more than the notch. Are you telling me to count the pins in the slot? Maybe my motherboard doesn't have what you're talking about...

Ddr2 and ddr3 both use 240pins, so no difference there. 

[NumLock21]

1 hour ago, anandgeforce said:

I don't see much more than the notch. Are you telling me to count the pins in the slot? Maybe my motherboard doesn't have what you're talking about...

They all have, goes back to ddr. If you see it then your a pro. Can't then forever be a newb no matter how good you are with computers. Basic identification of hardware parts.

Maybe i'll say the answer then or let you guys continue to find it. Notch position and pins counts are not it.

[Ben_Upde]

2 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

They all have, goes back to ddr. If you see it then your a pro. Can't then forever be a newb no matter how good you are with computers. Basic identification of hardware parts.

Maybe i'll say the answer then or let you guys continue to find it. Notch position and pins counts are not it.

Mine says it right by the notch. The one MAJOR difference between all the generations of DDR. 

[NumLock21]

10 minutes ago, Ben_Upde said:

Mine says it right by the notch. The one MAJOR difference between all the generations of DDR. 

You are a pro!

Congrats!

 

 

[ClobberXD]

On 11/03/2016 at 10:09 AM, Ben_Upde said:

Mine says it right by the notch. The one MAJOR difference between all the generations of DDR. 

Ummm... what exactly does say? 'DDRx', or something else?