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Laptop Memory Upgrade

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Hey guys, I am thinking of upgrading my laptop memory. It is a Asus TUF FX-550DY with Ryzen 5 33550H with 8 gigs of DDR4 2666Mhz SODIMM. The thing is, I am confused on which memory to purchase. The stock memory stick that came with the laptop has a frequency of 2666Mhz. But inside windows task manager, the memory speed is shown as 2400Mhz. There's one more issue to be addressed. My laptop consists of dual channel memory, One of the slot is populated with 8 gigs. So should I upgrade upto 24gigs or should I upgrade to 16gigs only. Also what memory speed should I choose?

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Try using CPU-Z to get a better idea what memory your notebook currently has and what speed it is running at. Specifically look at the "Memory" and "SPD" tabs.

 

Mixing different speeds can work, but there is no guarantee (both sticks would run at the slower speed).  Mixing different sizes means only some of your RAM will run dual channel the rest will run in single channel. Again, this may or may not work.

 

So ideally you want identical sticks for dual channel.

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