Hey guys, not sure if this is the right forum for this but i need some help.
I've got an Acer Aspire V netbook with an i5-4200u, and wanted to upgrade the ram. Used speccy and cpu-z, both said the standard ram was 4gb, 1066 11-11-11-28 running in single channel, which sounded like a pretty big bottleneck to me, especially for the HD4400.
So i went ahead and bought a single stick of Crucial Ballistix in 8gb, 1600, 9-9-9-24 guise and waited patiently for it to arrive.
When i went to install it i noticed the ram slot empty and 4x little hynix things sitting under it. Went ahead and installed the ram, bios said 12gb so i booted into windows.
Now, the problem is that both speccy and cpu-z are reporting 12gb of ram - at 800mhz, 11-11-11-28 in dual channel.
Is there any way to maybe disable the soldered ram or otherwise make everything only run through the crucial module?
Am i better off running dual channel with the higher timings, rather than trying to get single channel with lower timings?
Pic with relevant info:
I've got an Acer Aspire V netbook with an i5-4200u, and wanted to upgrade the ram. Used speccy and cpu-z, both said the standard ram was 4gb, 1066 11-11-11-28 running in single channel, which sounded like a pretty big bottleneck to me, especially for the HD4400.
So i went ahead and bought a single stick of Crucial Ballistix in 8gb, 1600, 9-9-9-24 guise and waited patiently for it to arrive.
When i went to install it i noticed the ram slot empty and 4x little hynix things sitting under it. Went ahead and installed the ram, bios said 12gb so i booted into windows.
Now, the problem is that both speccy and cpu-z are reporting 12gb of ram - at 800mhz, 11-11-11-28 in dual channel.
Is there any way to maybe disable the soldered ram or otherwise make everything only run through the crucial module?
Am i better off running dual channel with the higher timings, rather than trying to get single channel with lower timings?
Pic with relevant info:
Comment