• rounding_error@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    I’m pretty sure you can just use special risers to get sodimms to work on a desktop. Not completely necessary to microsolder. It’ll run at a slower speed though

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      6 days ago

      Yea there are risers but they are a PITA for stability. From testing I’ve seen, you can get them in one time and they work just fine. You take them out, put them back in, now there’s a chance your PC will just not work right anymore.

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      6 days ago

      I use them in my NAS because I happened to have 2x16GB sticks of DDR4 SODIMM lying around and didnt feel like dropping $400 to get proper RAM

      They report at 3200MT/s in the OS through the riser. I’ve never actually tested the real speed to see if that is correct, but they seem to work okay.