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yesman
By yesman
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hi would mismatched ram work in an laptop with diffrent size? i have an 8gb stick in my laptop and have an 4gb spare would that would ? would i get 12gb ?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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3 minutes ago, yesman said:

hi would mismatched ram work in an laptop with diffrent size? i have an 8gb stick in my laptop and have an 4gb spare would that would ? would i get 12gb ?

Usually it works, sometimes it does not work.

If you have the items and laptops in hand, there is nothing that can go wrong in trying it out and running a memtest.

 

Of course make sure this is all the same DDRx version.

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