• MarxStuff
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    41 year ago

    It’s Linus, there are no thoughts involved

    • JoeMarx 193OPM
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      21 year ago

      Any reasons to dislike him aside clickbait cringe?

      • MarxStuff
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        1 year ago

        he’s basically just an actor and a door-to-door salesman for whatever tech company paid him the most that day. just an all around bad idea to get tech-facts and information from what is practically a youtube ad, just longer.

  • @StugStig
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    1 year ago

    Non-click bait explanation:

    X16 RAM chips have half the bank groups of X8 or X4, reducing their bandwidth.

    This is on top of dual rank being faster than single rank, 2 sticks (dual channel) being better 1 (single channel), and also some laptops using LPDDR4 (32 bit bus instead of 64bit) for built in soldered memory. It’s mostly issues plaguing laptops and pre-builts.

    Honestly, I just ignore all that and buy the cheapest pair of sticks with the best combination of latency and clock speed. It’s kind of impractical to find out what chips a RAM kit uses since the chips are a commodity so memory companies change them out depending on the current market price. They might even have 2 different suppliers for the same SKU.

    • JoeMarx 193OPM
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      21 year ago

      So basically i only have to worry abt x16 if it’s on laptops?

      • @StugStig
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        21 year ago

        The SODIMMs that laptop use are the ones where an 8GB stick can come in 4 chip configurations.

        Regular full size DIMMs have 8 chips minimum so 8GB sticks for PCs shouldn’t have that issue.

        • JoeMarx 193OPM
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          21 year ago

          So essentially the fewer chips on the stick, the worse if it’s on a laptop?

          • @StugStig
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            31 year ago

            Fewer chips is worse in general since you want the memory to not only be x8 but also dual rank (two chips per controller).

  • 小莱卡
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    31 year ago

    Pls don’t post linus stuff.