4x32

[jl123]

This deals with RAM. I saw this on my sticks of RAM and always wondered what this thing meant. What does it mean??? It's probably something really simple that i don't catch on too http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[jl123]

I'm sure someone knows what this means http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif 4x32????????????

sorry if i sound impatiant http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif It's bugging me that i don't know http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel(jl123)

[happyhamster]

Quote from Memory FAQ (http://www.shenandoahmemory.com/products/FAQs/faq-memory.htm)

What do all the numbers mean? (1x9, 4x32, 8x64, etc...)

Memory is made of rows and columns, so these numbers can be thought of as the deminsions of the memory. The numbers simply describe what the grid looks like. Let's take '4x32' as an example. The '4' actually stands for '4Mb' which translates into four million bits and stands for one side of the grid. The '32' is the other side of the grid and is '32 bits'. The SIMM is 4 million bits by 32 bits. If you convert the 32 bits to bytes, you get 4 bytes or 4B. When you work the 'area' of the grid out, you get 16MB. (4Million X 4B = 16MB) Thus a 4X32 is a 16MB SIMM. For parity memory, you use 9 bit to the byte.