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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      • tomyhaw@lemmy.worldOP
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        17 hours ago

        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

        • obnomus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          9 hours ago

          Very weird, ram sticks should work to the lowest freq if the soldered one is lower freq.

        • texture@lemmy.world
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          14 hours ago

          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?