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I have ASUS zenbook UX32VD (i5 version) and it only has 4GB of RAM preinstalled and while I originally thought that it has two RAM expansion slots it turned out it doesn't! So as I am on LINUX I used an lshw application to check this out and this is what it turned out:

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Program shows me that it still has an extra slot while I can't physically see it. Weird. Also 4GB of RAM are divided among two containers and I suspect that 2GB of RAM is solderd on the motherboard while 2GB resides in my expansion slot. The other expansion slot is somehow nonexistent...

Can anyone confirm this and suggest me the best RAM I can buy to maximize my laptop RAM. Is it true that the max ammount of ram this motherboard detects is only 8GB?

fixer1234
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From what you've written in comments, the system has 2 GB of RAM soldered on the motherboard, with an SO-DIMM slot for expansion that is currently populated with a 2 GB module.

You'll need to remove any existing memory module in the slot if you want to upgrade. The processor technically allows 32 GB of memory, but the most you'll be able to install is 8 GB in that slot. (Consumer Ivy Bridge does not support 16GB modules; DDR3 modules of this capacity are only available for server use.) The maximum possible memory configuration is therefore 10 GB.

Note that because this memory configuration is mismatched across different memory channels, you may experience degraded performance in some memory-intensive workloads as the memory will operate in single-channel mode.

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As the comments have explained the other slot is a soldered ram chip which you can't remove / swap.

With this said, the best way to find out which ram you can use I find is to use crucial.com/crucial.co.uk. As long as you use the suggested ram they guarantee it'll work.

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