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DIMM Sockets

       The picture above is of 4 DIMM sockets. What in the world is a DIMM socket! Well, as with everything else in the computer world, they try to make things hard on us with all these abbreviations. Don't feel left out, the majority of Computer Science majors have to carry a computer dictionary with them. ;-) Ok back to DIMM sockets. DIMM sockets are where the computers RAM (Random Access Memory), is installed. DIMM stands for Dual Inline Memory Module. The reason it is called "Dual" is because both sides of the memory card will have completely separate connections to the DIMM socket. On the older SIMM (Single Inline Memory Modules), both sides were connected together at each connection to the SIMM socket. Below is a partial picture of a memory module's little gold contact points. 

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