What is a Memory Module?

What is a Memory Module?
Hi, I'm Allen and welcome to Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to build your very own personal computer. This part right here is the memory module and there's a lot of different memory modules depending on the type of motherboard you pick up and that's going to determine what type of memory and how fast the memory the memory is, thing's like that. So, that's going to be something that your really going to have to look into. But pretty much a lot of these modules, they may look the same but the connectors on the bottom are a little bit different when put them in place and they have to obviously fit. When you do your research, obviously, there's so many different types right now that they're all like DDR but there's different speeds and things like that so you want to make sure that they're good. Also, you'll see different numbers, it'll have a series of four numbers that are called timing numbers and you'll want to some basic research if you see a good price on some memory, some of it might be slower even though it is the speed that your system needs. So, just look that information up and there's a lot of different brands, I usually buy just different brands as long as the timings and speeds are really good. I bought PNY and a couple of those brands like Kingston and really have not had too much trouble with it and those really, really good brands but also the generic brands are really, really good too. So, do a little research, find about the brands, some of the other brands out there, just research them, look what other people say about them, I picked up a lot of my memory from clubit.com and also newegg.com really, really good options for your and it's not hard to install, essential component but not hard to install, only goes in one way on these newer boards, just put it straight in, click, click, it's in and pretty much ready to go. I do recommend going with at least a gigabyte, starting these days and you can usually get one gigabyte chip relatively cheap nowadays and a gigabyte will really get you up and going, I'm running four gigabytes in my system but I do a lot of video work, as you can see. And, that will really get you going, if you want to some high end gaming stuff maybe two gigs will be good for you depending on what you spend. But that's definitely something to look at, you want fast memory, a lot of memory and that's just going to allow you to expand. Make sure that your motherboard does allow you to also expand the memory at least four is definitely a good way to go. You'll also see something like dual-channel which almost all the boards offer and that's just a way of bringing the memory slots together so that if you're running two gigabytes, instead of addressing them separately it addresses it as one memory module and makes things a little bit faster, that's pretty much all that is. So memory, right here, go ahead check it out, make sure you get the right one but essential part of your computer's too.