Help with Ram questions for laptop

cylpol1 · August 2, 2015

I was looking at this laptop and had come with 4gb of intergrated ram and an empty so-dimm slot to go up to 12 gb of ram. Will I have compatibility issues if I ass another 4 or 8 stick of ram. Will that new stick of ram have compatibility issues with the integrated one if they are using different brands of ram. Also is there a way to disable the integrated ram. Also which ram will the computer use first, the integrated on or the so-dimm one. Anyways hopefully you guys can help and feedbaack is much appreciated and helpful.

exercutor5 · August 2, 2015

I was looking at this laptop and had come with 4gb of intergrated ram and an empty so-dimm slot to go up to 12 gb of ram. Will I have compatibility issues if I ass another 4 or 8 stick of ram. Will that new stick of ram have compatibility issues with the integrated one if they are using different brands of ram. Also is there a way to disable the integrated ram. Also which ram will the computer use first, the integrated on or the so-dimm one. Anyways hopefully you guys can help and feedbaack is much appreciated and helpful.

First of all, what laptop are you using?

cylpol1 · August 2, 2015

Asus k501lx, that's what I plan to get

cylpol1 · August 2, 2015

Or I will be getting

D2ultima · August 2, 2015

Compatibility issues are low between RAM brands as long as their speed and timings are the same

If you don't use 2 x 4GB sticks, it won't run in Dual Channel mode I think. Whether what you're planning to do with it needs dual channel memory or not is up to you.

I don't know of a way to disable a RAM stick, and that laptop will likely be so locked down that it won't let you anyway.

I don't know which stick it will use first.