How to find out my systems DDR RAM speed?

[Danial Thom]

Why not just bring an assortment of RAM when you
visit, which you'll likely have to do to install
it. Its a lot cheaper than the alternatives.

--- Bruce MacDonald <brumac at gmail.com> wrote:

> BIOS screens and RAM chips are tough to see
> from a distance :)
> 
> The program memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/
> shows the information you
> seek.  Unfortunately, as far as I know, it must
> be run from a boot disk,
> though since it is open source, it perhaps
> could be modified to run under
> FreeBSD.
> 
> Also, I may be wrong about this, but I think
> that if your current system
> requires slower DDR333 RAM, then putting in
> DDR400 may cause problems.
> OTOH, if it can handle faster DDR400, then it
> could also use DDR333, but run
> more slowly.  Also, I really dislike mixing RAM
> types on a single board, but
> people tell me that on modern mobos, that is
> not such a big deal as it once
> was.
> 
> Regards,
> --Vorpal
> 
> 
> On 1/6/06, Danial Thom <danial_thom at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Holtor <holtor at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE on a
> remotely
> > > hosted server and I'd like to find out the
> DDR
> > > speed
> > > of the RAM chips installed so I can order
> the
> > > proper ones for an upgrade. I know it's
> either
> > > DDR333 or DDR400 so I assume I can just
> order
> > > DDR400 to be safe but..
> >
> > Its usually displayed by the bios at boot
> time.
> > Its also labeled on the ram itself if your
> system
> > isn't hermetically sealed.
> >
> > DT
> >
> >
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