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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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EDIT: ran memtest after crashes got worse, went back to stock 8gb and gave up. Some weird issue with used 16 stick
That may be. And it's not like RAM goes bad constantly when it's soldered to the board.
At least it is all soldered: having a slot available and never being able to match what is soldered in sounds like my OCD's worst nightmare.
I do like the P series. For as much as I use a laptop (modulo my work laptop, which I don't own), I'm still on my trusty T440p, which I have modded as much as humanly possible.