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04-18-2020 12:03 PM
I purchased an HP laptop from Costco several years ago. I am still troubleshooting a slow performance issues. I noticed that the system was delivered with 12 GB of memory. It has two chips that are not the same, one 4 and one 8 GB. Is this a problem? It has a dual core Intel i3-7100 @ 2.4 GHz processor. Should the memory consist of the same memory chips, such as two 4 GB or two 8 GB chips. Would this affect the operational speed?
04-18-2020 12:24 PM
Hi:
Yes, the memory should run a little better with two memory chips of the same capacity.
Right now the memory is running in the lower performing single channel mode.
With 2 x 8 GB, the memory will run in the better performing dual channel mode.
If it has a mechanical hard drive, that also slows things down.
Get a 2.5" solid state drive someday, and replace the mechanical drive.