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‎11-17-2019 10:47 AM

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Product: Hp 15-af024AU
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have 15af024au laptop. It is expandable upto 8 gb ram. It has 2 ram slots, one preoccupied by 4gb ram. Now i added 8gb on another slot and in system configuration it shows 12gb. will it uses all the 12gb r nly 8gb??

 

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‎11-17-2019 10:57 AM

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Hi:

 

It will use all 12 GB but the memory will run in the lower performing single data rate (SDR) mode.

 

Eventually, you will want to remove the 4 GB chip and replace it with an 8 GB chip so that the memory runs in the higher performing dual data rate (DDR) mode.  Not to mention you will have 16 GB of memory instead of 12.

 

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‎11-17-2019 11:10 AM

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Will it help if i reduce the memory in system configuration. Will it turn to dual channel??

 

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‎11-17-2019 12:36 PM

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That would not make any difference.

 

It is the physical memory that determines SDR or DDR, not any software adjustments you make to it.

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