Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks.

From	micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com>
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Subject	Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks.
Date	2020-09-20 21:03 -0400
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 19 Sep 2020 09:56:32 +0100, "wasbit"
<wasbitremove@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"micky" <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote in message 
>news:jreamf1t15fol45quf1i1bjsnc55i4070t@4ax.com...
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:47:27 -0400, micky
>> <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks.
>>
>> Shucks, I'm sorry.  I left out the main difficulty.   I want to use 3 of
>> the 2 gig sticks, so the last one won't be paired.
>>
>>
>> (I finally got a hit in google that reminded me what the problem is. It
>> recommended 2 one-gig sticks to get to 6, but I don't want to spend
>> money when (someday soon, maybe, someday) I'm going to buy another
>> computer.   So I just want to use what I have.
>>
>> I'm assuming I'll find one stick that is bad.
>>
>>
>>>Like my Dell core2 duo optiplex 775 (or 755??,. I forget, but this is a
>>>generatl quetion. )
>>
>> So far, I replaced the thermal paste and reassembled and the CPU temp is
>> only 139^.    Plus the paste people say the temp will go down 4 or 5
>> degrees as it burns in for the first 200 hours.   I'm not doing much

BTW, Arctic Silver says you have to let the CPU cool off and then warm
up several or many times again fo it to settle in.  Just running it for
200 hours won't do much. 

This messes with my plan to just let the pc run to see how  long before
it crashes, but otoh, I have plenty of time.   It's wavering between 134
adn 141F now, which seems plenty cool enough. 

>> with the computer so I supppose it will get hotter when I run a lot of
>> things, but all in all, it seems okay.
>>
>> So then I used one stick of 2Gigs and it crashed, while I was looking at
>> speccy and speccy said it was 134^, so it can hardly have crashed
>> because of the heat or the thermal paste, right.
>>
>> I changed sticks and it's okay for now, but it's gone 24 hours before it
>> crashes, so who knows.
>>
>> I was able to add another user (one who doesn't need a pin) and trying
>> to do that made it crash 2 or 3 times berfore, so that's a good sign.
>>
>> Two more sticks to go and I hope to have 2 or 3 good sticks, totallying
>> 4 or 5 gigs.   That's enough for a secondary computer that only does a
>> few things.   Unless it's not the RAM eiither.  ;-(
>
>In everyday use you are not likely to notice the difference if you use 
>mismatched sticks of RAM.
>
>If you are using the standard Intel heatsink & fan, double check each of the 
>four mounting pins have engaged. On second use they can be difficult to 
>latch properly.

Is this related to unplugging the CPU?  I think so.  I didn't unlatch
the CPU, only removed the heatsink and its cover.   The heatsink has two
wide metal tabs that go into the cover.  The black plastic clover hooks
on to a pivot on either side, in the front, and then it rocks back and
tightens with a screw on the remaining 2 corners. 

Thanks, and thanks Paul.   Still haven't tested the last two sticks.
I'll report back in a few days.

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Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-18 18:47 -0400
  Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-18 19:06 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-09-18 21:10 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. "wasbit" <wasbitremove@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-19 09:56 +0100
      Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-20 21:03 -0400
  Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-09-26 18:50 -0400
    Re: Can I use just 6 gigs of RAM in PC's that take 4 sticks. Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-09-27 12:19 -0400

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