What is a Ballistix DDR3 240-pin DIMM?
Ballistix 240-pin DIMMs are found in DDR3 memory. DDR3 the next generation of memory boasts an improved architecture allowing very fast data transmission. Ballistix 240-pin DIMMs are available in DDR3 PC3-12800 SDRAM (DDR3-1600). A Ballistix dual inline memory module (DIMM) consists of a number of memory components attached to a black printed circuit board. Gold pins, found on the bottom of the DIMM, provide a connection between the module and a socket on a larger printed circuit board. The pins on the front and back of a DIMM are not connected to each other. To use DDR3, your system motherboard must have 240-pin DIMM slots and a chipset that supports DDR3 which is a different technology than that of than its predecessors, DDR2 and DDR. DDR3 incorporates different sockets; they are not interchangeable or backward-compatible. (Information about which memory technology your system uses is included in the Crucial Memory Advisor tool.) The number of black components on a Ballistix 240-pin
