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unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory
(lemmy.world)
I have a e14 Thinkpad gen 5 Intel 1335u with 8gb soldered ram and a 8gb 3200 ddr4 stick. 16 is not enough ram for my use as a developer so I put a 16gb stick in knowing only first 16 will run dual channel. Now my computer crashes randomly with high memory usage... read online that a 32gb is more stable single channel but I'm skeptical. Stability is pretty important to me as this is how I earn a living what do you all think? Also I would just buy a 32 and try it but everything got pricey the last 2 month
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I have an asus laptop with same config but instead of 8Gb soldered I have 4 Gb soldered and I have a 16Gb ram stick.
Also can you set required freq, also I didn't have that option so both of ram works at 2400Mhz instead of 3200Mhz.
good to know
So what did you do then?
nothing haha just left the bad 16gb stick in there because it mostly works. It's hard to diagnose it as I use it for work 24/7.... mayb I need another Thinkpad for when I diagnose the other
Very weird, ram sticks should work to the lowest freq if the soldered one is lower freq.
you already said in another comment something like "im too lazy to run memtest" i dont get it, why not just run the test and that will likely diagnose?