Advantages of DIMM Slots
- When comparing DIMM slots to SIMMs, the size of the data channel doubles because DIMM slots are known to contain distinct contacts on each side of the circuit board.
- Control signals and addresses from the CPU are buffered by DIMM. This buffering results in a notable decrease in memory usage.
- The dual-channel architecture allows the CPU to access memory on each DIMM independently.
- In addition to dual channels, there are triple and quad channels on the market that are employed for particular use cases.
- By supporting interleaving capabilities, these multi-channel DIMMs help to lower memory latency issues.
- The spreading of data across memory modules in alternating patterns is referred to as interleaving. Consequently, the CPU doesn’t have to wait for modules to finish operating in order to continue reading these data patterns sequentially from memory.
What is DIMM(Dual Inline Memory Module)?
Before understanding DIMM, it is good to have information regarding RAMs and their accessories and how they operate. A RAM is a chip made up of several electronic elements that store the temporary working data of your system which can be read and written. RAM requires an electric supply for functioning, hence when the system is turned off, all data from RAM vanishes. It is mounted on the motherboard.
The RAM chips are not individually mounted on the motherboard because of less capacity, hence in earlier times, several chips used to be soldered together and converted into “modules”(integrated circuit boards) and these modules were mounted over motherboard using “pins”(also known as connectors).