Different brand but same speed RAM in laptop - Only single channel

Drake5 · 11 Jan 2024 at 20:25

I added an 8GB 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM module along side the current 8GB 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM module in my laptop, they are different brands though. From what I read online before hand different branded RAM should still run as dual channel as long as the speed is the same however that's not the case for me since CPU-z says the RAM is running in single channel mode

Can anyone shed some light on this for me please?

Cheers

Drake5 · 11 Jan 2024 at 20:40

Tetras said:
Your laptop only has two slots, right?

What else is different between the sticks?

It could just be a misread from cpu-z.

The laptop only has 2 slots

This is the stick that I added today

This is the stick that came with the laptop

Drake5 · 11 Jan 2024 at 20:44

Tetras said:
They look close enough, can you show the mainboard and memory tabs?

Cheers

Drake5 · 11 Jan 2024 at 20:57

Apparently I'm told that 2 x 64bit indicates dual channel mode so I think all is good

Drake5 · 12 Jan 2024 at 20:47

Jamin280672 said:
On a different note, I don't know if you can configure it in the bios, but you are in 2:1 mode, your uncore is half your ram speed.

I'm not sure what that means, do I need to change a setting somewhere?

Drake5 · 13 Jan 2024 at 19:28

Jamin280672 said:
It means that the memory controller in your CPU is running at half of the speed of your DRAM Frequency, it might just be a limitation of a mobile CPU though

Is this something I should be concerned about/try to fix ?