Single / Double Sided

Is your memory not fully recognized? (Intel VX chipset Memory recognition)
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Ritchie
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How can I tell whether a RAM chip is single or double sided, either by looking at it or by it's specifications? I know when double sided is required, and I know that while double sided means chips on both sides of the module on SDR chips this is not always the case on DDR chips.
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In the "Collected Wisdom" section there's an id method for SDRAM DIMMs. I don't know what would be analogous for DDR.
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Thanks I will take a look.
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I know when double sided is required, and I know that while double sided means chips on both sides of the module
nope. a logically single-sided module can physically have chips on both sides of the module. single-sided/double-sided is about the logical organization of the memory not the physical chips.

Some boards have three slots and only room for 5 banks. You can thus fit 2 double-sided and one single-sided module at a maximum. memory slot count doesn't say anything about the actual amount of memory that can be fitted and I'm talking about modules with the same density chips.
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side=bank=row?
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