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Your motherboard should detect and automatically set up any DIMM you

install, assuming you have the right RAM for the system, using a technology

called serial presence detect (SPD). RAM makers add a handy chip to

modern sticks called the SPD chip (see Figure 4-33). The SPD chip stores all

the information about your DRAM, including size, speed, ECC or non-ECC,

registered or unregistered, and other more technical bits of information.

Figure 4-33 SPD chip on a stick

When a PC boots, it queries the SPD chip so that the MCC knows how

much RAM is on the stick, how fast it runs, and other information. Any

program can query the SPD chip. Take a look at Figure 4-34 with the results

of the popular CPU-Z program showing RAM information from the SPD

chip.

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