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How To Check If Your RAM Type Is DDR3 or DDR4 On Windows 10

- RAM speed is an important factor to consider in addition to capacity, with DDR3 offering speeds up to 2133 MHz and DDR4 offering faster speeds up to 3200 MHz. - To check your RAM type and speed, open Task Manager's Performance tab and look in the Memory section, or download the free CPU-Z program to check the RAM "Type" field. - While more RAM is usually better for performance, DDR3 is often sufficient for most needs, and upgrading to an SSD can provide more speed improvement than new RAM for many systems.

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How To Check If Your RAM Type Is DDR3 or DDR4 On Windows 10

- RAM speed is an important factor to consider in addition to capacity, with DDR3 offering speeds up to 2133 MHz and DDR4 offering faster speeds up to 3200 MHz. - To check your RAM type and speed, open Task Manager's Performance tab and look in the Memory section, or download the free CPU-Z program to check the RAM "Type" field. - While more RAM is usually better for performance, DDR3 is often sufficient for most needs, and upgrading to an SSD can provide more speed improvement than new RAM for many systems.

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When it comes to RAM, users think that more is better.

While more RAM usually means


your system will run better, the amount of RAM you have isn’t the only factor you
need to look at when purchasing it.

RAM also has a data transfer speed and that also impacts its efficiency. This
transfer speed has two variants: SDR and DDR. DDR i.e., Double Data Rate has two
standards; DDR3 and DDR4.

How to check RAM type

Here’s how you can check if your RAM type is DDR3 or DDR4.
DDR3 And DDR4 Speeds
DDR3 offers transfer or read/write speeds up to 2133 millions transfers/second
while DDR4 offers transfer or read/write speeds up to 3200.

The speed for DDR is also measured in GBs transferred per second where DDR3 can
transfer up to 14.9GBs/second, and DDR4 can transfer up to 2.6GB/second.

For our purpose, we need to know only the transfer speed that both DDR3 and DDR4
have to offer.

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Check RAM Type
Checking RAM type, once you know the speeds you’re supposed to be looking for, is
very easy. Open Task Manager and go to the Performance tab. Select memory from the
column on the left, and look at the very top right. It will tell you how much RAM
you have and what type it is. In the screenshot below, you can see that the system
is running DDR3.

All RAM isn’t created equal so the DDR3 chip on your system can differ from that on
another system. The speed it has to offer depends on the specific chip that is
installed. To check the speed, look under the Memory graph and you will see a
dedicated Speed field telling you what your RAM’s speed is.

You cannot change DDR3 into DDR4 through driver updates or by doubling your RAM.
Much like you cannot turn a 500 GB hard disk into a 1 TB hard disk with software,
you cannot change the speed of the RAM or its type via software.

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For lots of systems, DDR3 is often sufficient for most, if not every need. You only
need more, better, or faster RAM i.e. DDR4 for gaming, or perhaps heavy multimedia
rendering e.g., 3D modelling or animation work. If you’re looking to improve the
speed of your system, increasing RAM may not be the best way to do it. It’s better
to invest in an SSD. An SSD can cost less or about the same as new RAM and it will
help your system run faster than when it was using an HDD.

CPU-Z
If the Task Manager isn’t showing you whether or not you have DDR3 or DD4, you can
use a free app called CPU-Z to check. Download, install, and run it. Go to the
Memory tab and the ‘Type’ field will show you if your RAM is DDR3 or DD4.

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