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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  • Zak@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I’m pretty happy with my P14s (essentially a T14). It’s even worse in that all the RAM is soldered, but as I understand things, AMD had legitimate performance reasons for doing so, and the trend is likely to continue.

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      10 hours ago

      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.