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Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:05 pm**

Suppose I find a stripped down quad core motherboard in a W520 and use spare i7-2640m CPU and other parts to complete the package. I may have able to run 2 memory sticks which I have laying around as well. Will that work in a pinch?

Cheers, thinkpadcollection

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:17 pm**

Sure, as many W520s shipped with the i7-2640m and two DIMMs. The QC motherboard doesn't require all four DIMM slots to be populated either.

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