Ghost Ram

[Train27]

So I recently asked on this forum how could I know what was the latency of my Ram and they recommended me using CPU-Z (which worked great by the way... I believe...).

But there was something bothering me... in the first image from the memory tag, as you can see, everything is normal ...kinda. There are some things I don't really get.

• My laptop's specsheet said the ram was DDR3L, but neither CPU-Z nor Windows' tasks manager shows me that, but instead they tell me it's DDR3. Are they the same? Is something wrong with... something?
• What are DRAM Frequency and NB Frequency and how are they related to my ram's "normal" frequency? I know it's 1600MHz but the only thing I see is a number pretty close to it's half and a number somehow close to it's twice respectively.

Now comes the real shit... on the SPD tag, I start to notice something weird. My laptop does have 4 memory slots and (in theory) two of them are already being used by a 8GB dual-channel memory (4gb x2). Slot #1 looks fine but when I move to Slot #2.... it's empty! Also are Slot #3 and Slot #4. On top of that, I tried to open the laptop to see but what I found was that only one memory slot was reachable without fully dismantling it. And of course it was one of the slots with a memory card. However, when I was trying to open it fully and look on the motherboard... well... my father came in and he almost had a heart attack when he saw the scene with the new pc.

In the end I disconected by mistake one of these tiny cables that look like they're paper and I thought I'd broke it, so I put it back the best way I could and assembled it as fast as possible to check if the hard drive connections were fine. Anyway, my point is that I couldn't look on the motherboard for the other slots nor the other memory stick, which is what's bothering me.

So the question is... maybe CPU-Z just doesn't detect the second memory stick for any god-knows why reason? Is inside this really another memory stick?

 

As always, thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post this time

[Moonzy]

10 minutes ago, Train27 said:

My laptop's specsheet said the ram was DDR3L, but neither CPU-Z nor Windows' tasks manager shows me that, but instead they tell me it's DDR3. Are they the same? Is something wrong with... something?

DDR3L can run as ddr3 but ddr3 cant run as DDR3L

so maybe your laptop's connection is DDR3,

it could also be that the software cant tell the difference because they operate the same way, just different voltage