To be fair here, their question seems to be a bit more than if you are plan on running 96 gb, but
specific instances of people actually using 96 gb on the FW16, and the following extra information:
Of course, while we can assume that 96gb should work, given that the cpus in the AMD 13 and the 16 are quite similar, the answer to their several questions doesn’t seem to be in that thread (it was a survey thread after all)
After check the knowledge base, the FW16 does have an officially tested kit of 48gb sticks (96gb with 2 sticks) that is confirmed to work, although other 96gb sticks may work (they just aren’t confirmed by Framework)
Not meaning to show attitude just stating i would like to konw/verify if people have had success/any weird issues Specifically with the 16.
i have rephrased it.
The Crucial 2x48GB kit (I got mine on Amazon) works for my Ubuntu 22.04 install. I haven’t run a MemTest86 test (yet), but I’ve had no stability issues whatsoever.
This is an interesting thread for me as I am considering the 96gb crucial kit as well.
I am interested to see peoples experiences across the various operating systems.
The Crucial 2x48GB is running well on my 16 7940HS since Monday (although first power on would only post with 1 stick - then reinstalling 2nd stick worked fine subsequently) - no further issues/instability. That kit worked fine for a month in my 13 7840U too (which I’ve now dropped back to the Kingston 2x32GB).
I’ve had the Mushkin 96gb kit for AMD 13 for around 4 months. Maybe once a month it willl crash with the WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (bugcheck 0x124) which is I believe apparently often (although not always) a memory issue. Rare enough that it’s hard to test and whether it’s related to the RAM capacity is unclear. (On Windows 10 LTSC)
Well, given the product is so very new, this is probably fine. But I hope someone at some point has real confidence that a 2024 notebook from Framework can handle crucial RAM…
the point is, amd has chosen not to officially support 24g and 48g modules. framework, in turn, cannot take on the promise that it will work. they’re too small of a company to take on that obligation
I’d run a couple of rounds of memtest86+ on that. Not unlikely that you have a bad stick of RAM if you get a semi-regular crash with that sort of error.
Great! That’s the kit I’ll be getting myself. Ordering in a day or two, since I’m traveling this week and don’t want to have something like this delivered while I’m not home to receive.
Generally a lower CAS also comes with lower frequency, so it’s not always as simple as “lower CAS better” these days. And Ryzens are well known to be more frequency tied, although not sure how these laptop chips are in comparison to older desktop chips.
I don’t think many of the 48GB SODIMMs come in the slower 5200MHz with CAS 40, but I haven’t researched that. More focused on the 5600MHz ones.
I suppose my answer would be buy it, benchmark it, and let us know!
