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7 hours ago, SerialAceTU1 said:

And what makes them suitable for different tasks and/or different groups of users?

(e.g. enterprises, gamers, normal consumers.)

Mostly it's a matter of what type of RAM a system is designed to use. If your system is designed to use say, DDR3 RAM, it just won't work with older DDR2 RAM because of timing and socket changes.

Some RAM is designed to be low power - DDR3L for example. This is used mostly in low power tablets, laptops, NUCs, etc.

Some RAM is designed to be error free - ECC RAM for example. In servers and other mission critical applications, you want to make sure that there are no errors when reading and writing to RAM, so extra error checking bits are added.

For average consumer use, there's no big need to be low-power or quite so error free, so cheaper standard power non-ECC RAM is used. (Of course, "standard" power is only relative to "low-power" within a certain RAM type. RAM, like everything else, tends to use less power in newer generations.)

 

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Hi community,

How many types of random-access memory (RAM) are there?

And what makes them suitable for different tasks and/or different groups of users?

(e.g. enterprises, gamers, normal consumers.)

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Please make sure you're posting in the proper sub-forum at all times.

 

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4 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Please make sure you're posting in the proper sub-forum at all times.

 

Moved to CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory.

Sorry about that :/

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here's a nice piece of literature on CPU memory:

https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

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7 hours ago, SerialAceTU1 said:

And what makes them suitable for different tasks and/or different groups of users?

(e.g. enterprises, gamers, normal consumers.)

Mostly it's a matter of what type of RAM a system is designed to use. If your system is designed to use say, DDR3 RAM, it just won't work with older DDR2 RAM because of timing and socket changes.

Some RAM is designed to be low power - DDR3L for example. This is used mostly in low power tablets, laptops, NUCs, etc.

Some RAM is designed to be error free - ECC RAM for example. In servers and other mission critical applications, you want to make sure that there are no errors when reading and writing to RAM, so extra error checking bits are added.

For average consumer use, there's no big need to be low-power or quite so error free, so cheaper standard power non-ECC RAM is used. (Of course, "standard" power is only relative to "low-power" within a certain RAM type. RAM, like everything else, tends to use less power in newer generations.)

 

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17 hours ago, TheGamingBarrel said:

You need to be more specific, I could list more than 10 Different kinds of DDR3 without even starting with ECC.

Never mind about the 1st question (not specific)

 

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