Ballin' Amounts of RAM in a Tiny PC
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,097 words · ~5 min read
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last time on lineus Tech tips we took
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128 GB of unbuffered ddr4 memory and put
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it into a gaming motherboard this time we're going to cram as much RAM as
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possible into a Gigabyte bricks with some help from our friends at
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intelligent memory and on the subject of intelligent is it a good idea to run a
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computer inside a mini fridge should I sacrifice the mini fridge in the garage
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at our office to find out smash that like button if you want to see it happen
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the Kingston KC 310 series ssds we're using in our high-speed storage server
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feature firmware based power Bloss protection Rock Solid performance and
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large capacities up to 960 gigs click
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right here to learn more so this video is actually pretty
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straightforward from a mechanical standpoint just like any Intel knck or
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bricks Mini PC this bricks is an ultra compact PC kit
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uh specifically it's the BX I3
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h-51 0 it comes with a case motherboard
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external power supply Wi-Fi module and a core I3 CPU it's got four USB 3.0 ports
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HDMI and mini DisplayPort outputs an audio jack Ethernet power in and it's
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super small and kind of cute so as usual
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it's what's inside that counts and there's a Fair bit of neat stuff going
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on in here number one this is on the
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Leading Edge of Broadwell based PCS the core I3 510 U inside it is built on
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Intel's latest 14 nmet process node making it pretty much a core M like in
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the new Macbook that we reviewed here but with higher clock speeds and higher
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power targets since it'll be plugged into the wall and it'll be actively
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cooled but Intel made other improvements too performance on the CPU and GPU was
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increased over Haswell and power consumption was dropped 30% but not all
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of the improvements made it into the marketing decks and intelligent memory
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clued Us in that on compatible Broadwell based systems it would actually be
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possible to achieve higher than the official 16 gigs of rated memory
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capacity support although this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise since
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these are the same pranksters that sent us 128 gigs of DDR3 to test the benefits
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of over 100 gigs of memory in edel's workstation nearly a year ago so here
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they are the creatively named intelligent memory 16 gig ddr3l memory
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modules rated at 1333 MHz speeds at 1.35
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or 1.5 volts and packed up in a so dim
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four factor for your Ultra compact PC or
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laptop convenience installing them was as simple as any memory you pop open the
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bricks slot in the two sticks the way you normally would although you'll need
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a storage drive if you want to actually boot up the system as well since this is a barebones PC and fire it up everything
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showed up sort of normally with CPU Z
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not giving as detailed a report on the modules as normal but Windows detecting
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and using everything just fine and even
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passing a torture test sick hey 32 gigs
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of RAM in the palm of your hand but all
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is not completely Rosy while our MSI gt7
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two gaming notebook which is actually right here I got this also features a broad
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well-based CPU and also managed to
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detect the modules in the BIOS and even in Windows it reported only 32 gigs of
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our 48 gigs of RAM as usable so if you
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want to avoid running into a similar situation where you can't actually
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utilize all your shiny new memory make sure you consult the official supported
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list from intelligent memory since notebook maker support for this uh
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actually along with Intel's support for this is unoficial
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