Has anyone tried putting more than 32GB RAM in Alienware 18? (ie 64Gb)?

Has anyone tried putting more than 32GB RAM in Alienware 18? (ie 64Gb)?

I had a Lenovo PC before which ran totally okay on 16GB even though the official max was 8GB.

I have just discovered there are laptop RAM available in 16GB cards, and there are four slots.

Please let me know if you have any experience with this!

 

All Intel CPUs before the Skylake generation had some flaw in them that basically made it impossible to use 16 GB SODIMM modules, so depending on your hardware generation, you may be SOL. My M6700 has 4 slots, but will not run 64 GB due to it having an ivy bridge i7, so it's stuck at max 32 GB.

 

Perhaps older mobile parts were limited to 32 physical address lines to fetch 64-bit words.
2³² words = 4 GibiWords
64-bits = 8 bytes (octets)
∴ 2³² 64-bit words = 32 GibiBytes

Intel has been focusing on energy efficiency. They have sparingly added more address bits only when the memory devices become available to support it, not in advance for "future-proofing". Sky Lake and Kaby Lake have one more bit (33 bits for 64GibiByte addressing across 2 channels) in both the i7 and Xeon flavors. Higher-end desktop Broadwell-E has another bit (34 bits for 128GibiByte addressing across 4 channels). Server parts have more (such as 40 bits).

 

See this: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/16-gb-so-dimm-ram-modules-everything-you-need-to-know/ It was actually a design flaw in Intel's memory controller which to my understanding didn't bother fixing it because higher density memory modules weren't available at the time.

 

Can I chime in here with a somewhat related question. I have my wife a dell inspiron 13 3000 2 in 1. It has a single DDR3L module. I am guessing the most I can put in there is 8gb modules. Correct?

 

If it has an Intel CPU, then yes. That being said, 8 GB is still respectable.

 

Yes it does have a core i3. Thanks....at least I never went and wasted money buying a 16gb stick. I have 16gb running in my dell. I do a lot of video and photo editing on my system so I wanted the extra ram!

 

What CPU, exactly? System with i3-5010U & i3-6100U should handle 16GB memory modules.

 

I will have to look to see which one exactly.....give me a few min!

 

its the core m37y30

 

Max memory is 16GB.

See:
https://ark.intel.com/products/95449/Intel-Core-m3-7Y30-Processor-4M-Cache-2_60-GHz-

 

@kojack m3 is not exactly the same as i3, and googling was fruitless - most core m3 machines come with soldered memory; guess noone tried and lived to tell the tale about it.

 

Then, I take back what I said. It should be capable of having 16 GB of RAM given that it is a Skylake CPU. That said, Skylake running with DDR3, color me surprised. I would have expected Haswell or older.

Basic rule of thumb: Any 4th gen core i or older will not take 16 GB modules. 5th gen might and 6th gen will definitely handle it.

That said, if the memory is indeed soldered, you're SOL for a different reason.

 

I think my system has removable memory...I will crack it open and have a look!

 

Well, I think there is non removable ram in my wifes inspiron. Unless it's under a metal plate, but I don't think it was. So, just a new firecuda 1 tb drive and away we go!