Any way to identify your ram's brand?
 

Anyone know of a way to figure out what kind of ram you have without tearing you computer apart? I tried doing that earlier, and its label was covered by a heatsink which refused to come off. Isn't there some kind of program you can run that gives you all of your rams info?

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You can only get the info if the info is stored somewhere in the RAM card.
I don't think the info like brand of the RAM is stored.

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There should be a sticker with a UPC code. You didn't take it off did you? That could void your warranty.

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It has a sticker but its covered by a heatshield which i can't figure out how to remove.

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What do you want to know?

The speed?

Or the manufacturer?

Because I think some programs can tell you the speed of the ram... sisoft sandra maybe?

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normally there is an eprom on the ram card, so there will be some program to read it. some bios do that as well, but I think there isnt much manufacturer info, just timings and stuff

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Anyone know how to take a ram's heatshield off cause this thing ain't comin off, and i don't wanna break it. Reason i'm going through all this is because i want to buy some more ram and have it be the exact same thing as what i already have. Do you think it matters if you mix different brands of ram in the same machine if they are the same amount and speed?

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I've always mixed rams from different brands..
Nothing strange ever happened..

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check your bios it might say the brand
try downloading 3D mark and just goto system specs



yeah you cna mix brands... i wouldn't advize it but if they are the same speen and such then it is ok

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If you were to look at the brand on the chip, it wouldn't necessarily be the same as the manufacturer of it. Can you provide a photo of it?

Also, if you are mixing brands, I would check to see if the chips are from the same manufacturer. Like Samsung or Micron. Make sure the specs are the same, or else there will be huge problems.

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/me likes samsung... they make silent HDD...:D

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i wouldn't mix brands unless they are they EXACT same specs... like chip arrangement, size, registered, ECC, speed


and did you say it came with a blue heat spreader on it... i can tink of a few brands that use those.... Giel, Kingston, and i think corsair does. yeah maby if you provide a picture i can compare them

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AIDA32 is a utility free for personal use (a bit like SiSoft Sandra) that can tell you that.

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Ok, if i'm going to mix brands of ram, exactly which specs should i make sure are the same?

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latency is the main one... I restored my whole system before I found out about that.

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You mean you had fast timings set uüp in the BIOS, and your first memory stick could handle them. But when you added a second stick, you had to find out that it didn't run at such fast timigs, huh? Or did you mean something else? 'Cuz that can indeed be a problem...

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Take care of RAM type, bus speed and latency, and you're set.

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no, they were both nearly to0p of the range sticks, but one was more top of the range than the other. My BIOS didn't have any latency settings - something quite a few people I have spoken to find weird.

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That's indeed odd and normally something only to be found on cheaper MoBos... at least AFAIK.

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what is latency for ram? Could you give me an example?

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I bought some ram for my system, but i'm getting error messages about data being unable to be read from the ram, which started as soon as i stuck the new ram in. I get these messages when i play my games such as half-life 2, which causes it to shut down, and then the error message pops up. Here are my system specs:

SY-KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0 motherbaord
x1 stick of 512mb pc2700 333mhz ddr ram
Asylum Geforce FX 5900 128mb
Audigy sound card
maxtor 160gb ata133 hard drive and a western digital 40gb
450w power supply
athlon xp 3000 400fsb processor

Like i said earlier, i have no idea what brand the ram is but i do know how much of it i have and what speed. The stick i tried putting in was a pny ddr 512mb pc2700 333mhz. Here are some exact specs for it:

Memory Size: 512MB
Memory Type: PC2700 DDR
Pin Configuration: 184-Pin
Memory Speed: 333MHz
Manufacturer: PNY



Features:

* Speed: 333 MHz (PC2700), compatible with 266 MHz (PC2100)

* Type: 184 Pin DDR (Double Data Rate) DIMM (Dual In-line Memory Module)

* Twice as fast as typical SDRAM

* Built to Intel specifications * Slot(s) Required - 1 x memory - DIMM 184-pin

Any ideas as to why this ram is not working in my system? I double checked my motherboards specs to make sure it could handle it, and it can.

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I used that AIDA32 program and it turns out, the stick of ram i already have isn't pc2700, but is pc3200. I also noticed that they both had different latencies but i'm not sure it i was reading it right. The aida32 program listed the their latency as highest cas latency and 2nd highest cas latency. For the pc3200 stick i already had, the highest was 3.0 and the 2nd was 2.5. The stick i just bought was at 2.5 for highest, and 2.0 for 2nd. Now, when your looking at ram specs, it will say for example that the ram has a CAS latency of 2.5. Is it refering to the highest cas latency or the 2nd highest cas latency?