Slot 1 or Slot 0, where to put larger and smaller ram?

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I have a Dell Inspiron n5030, which had only one 2GB DDR3 ram stick.
I'm upgrading ram to 6 GB, the question is which slot to put the new 4GB stick in, slot 0 or slot 1. In short I can have two choices, slot 0-4gb and slot 1- 2gb. Or slot 0-2gb slot 1-4gb.
 
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geofelt
I do not think it will matter.
Before you buy the extra stick, do what you can to insure that it is a compatible upgrade.
Go to a site like Kingston, crucial, corsair and access their ram upgrade app.
Enter the make/model of your laptop.
You will get a list of compatible and supported upgrades.
The new ram must be the same speed, voltage and cas specs.
You can use cpu-Z to see exactly the specs you have now.
the matching 2gb in each channel will operate in dual channel mode, a very good thing for integrated graphics. The odd 2gb will be in single channel mode.


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I do not think it will matter.
Before you buy the extra stick, do what you can to insure that it is a compatible upgrade.
Go to a site like Kingston, crucial, corsair and access their ram upgrade app.
Enter the make/model of your laptop.
You will get a list of compatible and supported upgrades.
The new ram must be the same speed, voltage and cas specs.
You can use cpu-Z to see exactly the specs you have now.
the matching 2gb in each channel will operate in dual channel mode, a very good thing for integrated graphics. The odd 2gb will be in single channel mode.


 
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