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unbalanced ram. duel channel soldered memory (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by tomyhaw@lemmy.world 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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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm running 8 and 32 in my T490, seems to work fine. I'm building software and leaking memory like crazy and it's never been weird. I don't see why 8 + 32 would be any different than 8 + 16 other than capacity.

Doesn't the channel balance not matter that much? Like operations can be done in parallel. I always thought the benefits came from reading different things from each ram chip not synchronizing them byte for byte.