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for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn't do much.

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[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just found out that each slot can unofficially support up to 48GB at max.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Each slot supports as much as you can fit there, i have netbook with single ddr3 slot, it was said that this slot is limited to 2gb, i fitted 8gb and it ran just fine

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that's not necessarily true. It depends heavily on the motherboard chipset you have. Sometimes, these chipsets are used to artificially limit the true capacity on consumer-grade devices.

[–] PoopBuffet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can confirm. Happened to me with my old laptop. Tried to upgrade it with some rescued RAM and it refused to use all of it. It would only use up to the laptops advertised max.

(Not the brand in question, but motherboards can definitely limit the RAM utilisation)