x230 Memory Upgrade

[walnuts]

Hi!, quick question to all you thinkpad afficianados..

First thinkpad (yay!) and I want to upgrade from the stock 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM by manually installing ram from newegg.com

My question is that I know there are 2 slots on the x230, It comes with one side filled and the new 8GB RAM from newegg comes with 2 memory sticks.

Do i just stick one in and keep the stock Lenovo one? or do i remove both and put in two?

This is what I was looking at >>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231295

Thanks,

-XTREMESUPERN00B

[rsutoratosu]

either one.. you could get 8gb x2 for 16gb also if its not too late.

[walnuts]

I have an i5 3520M, will 16GB function propely on it?

[wolfman]

Yes. http://ark.intel.com/products/64893/ (assuming you mean i7 for the 3520m). Intel shows max RAM as 32gb.

[khtse]

Do you use hibernation?

If yes, and you have no need for 16GB, then don't go for 16GB. The more RAM you have the longer it takes to go into and get out of hibernation ( hibernation copies everything stored in memory to harddisk ).

That being said, I use only sleep mode or power down. With a decent SSD, powering up/down is faster than going into hibernation....