Comptia A+ Core 1 Exam: Guide To Computing Infrastructure (mindtap Course List)
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Author: Jean Andrews, Joy Dark, Jill West
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3, Problem 6TC
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Given:
A motherboard with four colored DIMM slots out of which three are gray slots and one is black.
To find:The type of memory used by a motherboard that has four DIMM slots.
Solution:
DDR3 RAM can be designed by using three gray slots and one black slot. Only DDR3 memory slots can be configured for single, dual or triple channeling...
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