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as noted in the introduction, there''s a virtual alphabet soup of memory types: sdram, edo, fpm, simm, and dimm. it certainly can create a great deal of confusion. ram pavilion itself stands for "random access memory," meaning the cpu can access any memory address without reading all addresses before it. (rom—read only memory—is random access, too, but 8160 you can''t write to it). it gets worse, because memory comes in different speeds, and pavilion some types don''t work in some systems. here''s the rundown on the three memory types used in today''s systems.... sdram. synchronous dram sdram''s speed is typically measured in mhz (for example, 100mhz), although you do see references to 10ns sdram ("ns" stands for nanosecond or one billionth of a second). sdram for pcs comes in dimms. these refer to sdram dimms rated at different memory bus speeds. for any cpu running at a 100mhz bus speed you should get sdram. some future motherboards will support sdram. although there''s a price premium, sdram will run in a pc100 system.

as noted in the introduction, there''s a virtual alphabet soup of memory types: sdram, edo, fpm, simm, and dimm. it certainly can create a great deal of confusion. ram pavilion itself stands for "random access memory," meaning the cpu can access any memory address without reading all addresses before it. (rom—read only memory—is random access, too, but 8160 you can''t write to it). it gets worse, because memory comes in different speeds, and pavilion some types don''t work in some systems. here''s the rundown on the three memory types used in today''s systems.... sdram. synchronous dram sdram''s speed is typically measured in mhz (for example, 100mhz), although you do see references to 10ns sdram ("ns" stands for nanosecond or one billionth of a second). sdram for pcs comes in dimms. these refer to sdram dimms rated at different memory bus speeds. for any cpu running at a 100mhz bus speed you should get sdram. some future motherboards will support sdram. although there''s a price premium, sdram will run in a pc100 system.

memory basics one of the best ways to increase the performance of your computer system is by adding more memory. with additional memory, you can have more programs running at the same time, and work on larger business files like spreadsheets and databases. easily installed, ram chips can speed up 8160 graphics applications, multimedia and, especially, games. how it works before information can be processed by a computer, it must first be transferred to a special data storage area called ram (random access memory). ram is connected directly to the processor by high speed data pathways. as long as your data is in ram, the pavilion computer''s processor has almost instantaneous access to it. when the processor needs information that is not currently in ram, it must be loaded from the hard drive and placed in ram, a much slower process. so the more ram you have, the higher your system''s overall performance.

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