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unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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EDIT: ran memtest after crashes got worse, went back to stock 8gb and gave up. Some weird issue with used 16 stick

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    good to know

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    So what did you do then?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    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

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