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EvilHomerClone9
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April 22nd, 2016 21:00
Successful 32gb ram in XPS 9530?
I'm trying to push the limits on my XPS 9530. I found a Crucial 32GB ram Kit on Amazon (CT2KIT204864BF160B), all of the specs for this ram kit seem to match the ram specs for the Dell XPS 9530 (minus the fact that its a 32gb kit and not a 16gb ram kit). However, I was unable to get the XPS to boot with this kit.
Oddly enough, it wouldn't even boot with a single stick and if I put the Dell branded ram in Dimm A, and a Crucial stick in Dimm B, the system would boot but only see 8gb of ram.
Either Dell has some hardware setting in the bios that is blocking "unauthorized ram" or I just need to find a different kit.
Though not specific to my model, Dell's website does list a 16gb ram stick with the same ram specs my XPS 9530 uses. The stick is from VisionTek (B01BKFYL3K) and it is next on my radar.
However, i'm curious if anyone else has attempted to push the boundaries on their laptop and perhaps have a part number they can share OR if you tried a different kit with no luck, that can be useful too. Will save me time and effort from ordering a dud kit.
Thanks!
-dave
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Posted April 22nd, 2016 22:00
Hi Dave,
Dell XPS 9530/ has 2 SODIMM memory slots which support DDR3L DIMM at 1600 MHz. Dell XPS 9530 supports a maximum of 16 GB system memory. The processor supplied on XPS 9530 supports 32GB as per Intel but however Dell has only tested 16GB memory on it.
riksterinto
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Posted April 24th, 2016 11:00
Hey Evilhomerclone
Unless you regularly use all 16GB on the 9530, you would not gain any improvement to performance with 32 GB. It's actually possible, in some scenarios, that performance could decrease with 32GB RAM since it would be limited to 1600Mhz.
EvilHomerClone9
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Posted April 24th, 2016 20:00
Ravi,
It was not a question of either Dell will support it. I am fully aware that Dell will quote that this laptop has only been tested with 16gb of ram. However I know very much that systems can be modified outside of OEM tested hardware.
In theory, this laptop should be able to support ram higher than 16gb unless Dell has put some hard stop inside the bios.
Thanks,Dave
EvilHomerClone9
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Posted April 24th, 2016 21:00
Hey Riksterinto!
Normally I would agree with you however I use Lightroom and Photoshop a lot and I've been mobile doing it more than I anticipated.
When i'm pushing through my edits, I can see the ram being taxed. Don't get me wrong, 16gb is a fare amount of ram to have, but if I can get away with 32gb, it would make life a bit easier for me. :)
On my desktop, I have 32gb of ram and with it I created a RAM disk that I use as a scratch disk. Really helps with my photoshop manipulations when I am using a disk that can get about 1GB read & write vs 300MBs.
I am also looking to expand my camera base and go full frame (a7rII), the raw files will jump from 24MB to 86MB! At which point I feel working with 16gb will just slow me down.
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Posted April 26th, 2016 22:00
Hi,
Dell would not put any limitation on the hardware usage but the system configuration is not only a processor it has additional hardware like Bus bandwidth, video card, chipset and other hardware parts hence informed you that we have not tested 32GB ram on this configuration.
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Posted December 3rd, 2016 10:00
I looked into this today, due to having a vested interest in it myself. Quote from a PC World article about IM 16GB modules:
"You should know that while the modules work in Broadwell parts, they likely won't with any Haswell CPUs. I'M Intelligent Memory attributes the limitation to the memory controller implementation in Haswell CPUs.
And while some Haswell mobile parts list the maximum amount of RAM as 32GB, those may be used in larger notebooks that support four RAM slots using 8GB SO-DIMMs to get to 32GB. And yes, such a laptop built using a Broadwell U CPU would likely let you run four 16GB modules for 64GB of RAM in your laptop."
I know, I'm *** too.