What command to issue to find if my RAM is either DDR2 or DDR3

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Fedora 14 HP Netbook 210 Mini

My netbook had 1 GB of DDR3 memory. However, that wasn't enough. So I decided to replace the 1 GB with a 2GB or DDR3.

However, what command can I issue to be sure that I am using DDR3.

I tried the following cat /proc/meminfo

However, it didn't list any information about DDR3.

Is there some other command I can use?

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Sathya · Answer 1 · 2010-12-11 06:41:48Z

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Running dmidecode or lshw should show the type. Might require root privileges to check, however.

answered Dec 11 '10 at 6:41

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	Found it using dmidecode. However, lshw return 'command not found'. – ant2009 Dec 11 '10 at 7:32
	It is well known that `dmidecode` is inaccurate in reporting memory information. See here – David Schwartz Jan 12 at 0:49

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