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8gb + 6gb = 10gb?

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xantub

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I got a new laptop with 8gb RAM. I took the 6gb dimm from my previous laptop that is broken (refurb sux0rz) and added it to my new laptop. To my surprise it went from 8gb to 10 instead of 14gb, why would that be?
 
Since 6gb dimm don't exist i'm going to assume maybe there was 4gb stick and 2gb dimm, and u added the 2gb ram stick. the other 4gb stick could possibly be on the other side of the mobo like some lenovo units, or soldered on the board like some asus original zenbooks, or something else. I would suggest posting a picture of this '6gb' dimm so we could give you more information.
 
maybe you had 2gb's of memory soldered to the motherboard of the other note book and thus why you had 6gb's with one dimm
 
MarkLuvsCS said:
Since 6gb dimm don't exist i'm going to assume maybe there was 4gb stick and 2gb dimm, and u added the 2gb ram stick. the other 4gb stick could possibly be on the other side of the mobo like some lenovo units, or soldered on the board like some asus original zenbooks, or something else. I would suggest posting a picture of this '6gb' dimm so we could give you more information.
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The refurb one is an Asus Q501LA-BBI5T03 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Asus-Q501LA...ore-i5-4200U-Laptop-Refurbished-/321328516158)
 
if I were you wouldn't do such a mix otherwise you would not benefit from Dual Channel memory mode. Only put RAM sticks in matching pairs
 
berryracer said:
if I were you wouldn't do such a mix otherwise you would not benefit from Dual Channel memory mode. Only put RAM sticks in matching pairs
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Well, considering the laptop only had one DIMM to begin with, don't think I'm losing anything.
As for my original question, I checked my model and my old laptop had 4GB soldered in, and only the one 2GB DIMM I transferred to the new one, so it's really 8GB + 2GB = 10GB, math checks ok!
 
Some one correct me if i am wrong, but with 8+2 gb of ram, the first 2gb of the 8gb will run in dual channel with the single 2gb ram, and the rest 6gb will be in single channel mode, so you will have 4gb dual channel, and 6gb single channel, and asuuming GFX is allocated at the beginning of the ram space, you could be getting some performance improvement in graphics.

You can check that CPUZ is saying running in dual channel mode even when what you are running is 8+2gb
 
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