
User’s Manual
IX57QM/IX55HM
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1.5
System Memory
1.5.1 SO-DIMM
Sockets
Location
The motherboard comes with
two
204-pin Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) SO-DIMM sockets.
A DDR3 module has the same physical dimensions as a DDR2 SO-DIMM but has a
204-pin footprint compared to the 200-pin DDR2 DIMM. DDR3 SO-DIMMs are notched
differently to prevent installation on a DDR2 SO-DIMM socket. The following figure
illustrates the location of the sockets:
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