I am tempted to just put 48 in there. The price of RAM scales nicely and it would get me the most from the i5 device. Yet I know it is most likely overkill. I will use this device as main device and for my engineering classes and also some CAD and Matlab on the side. Most of the time it’s tasks will only be running OneNote and Firefox under win11.
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64GB might work, but I went with 32GB.
I had 32 initially on my 16, but found that having a large number of large PDFs and Google Docs open (writing research papers for my EdD program) caused me to start slowing down. I moved up to 96 and have barely gone over 40 used, so I think 48 is a good target for college work.
Framework 12 only has one ram slot, so I think maxed would be 48.
Judging by your use case, I think 32GB is plenty enough.
I’m probably go 8GB or 16GB, since i5 one isn’t really a powerful chip so I will just use cross-compile.
No, 48GB is the max supported size.
So why 64GB might work?
Ah CSODIMM, good to know there are chance to get more ram.
I have 48GB waiting for my FW12. It will be overkill, but the price was right and just a bit more expensive then 32GB. So, why not. And prepared for the future now. For memory it is always better to have too much then too less.
I’m going the other direction - putting 8G of DDR4 in it. see if I can make the battery last all day or even longer. Going to run Manjaro with KDE Plasma.
I don’t think it will take DDR4.
JTrevail is correct. While the processor supports DDR4 or DDR5, the sockets are different, so a particular machine can only use one or the other, and the FW 12 is set up for DDR5.
Oh well, I would have figured it out when I tried to shove it in 
Now that I need to buy some… I guess I’ll try 8G anyway.
I noticed the price gap between 48gb and 32gb modules was pretty small so I just picked up a 48gb module. 16gb is probably enough but I figured why not. In theory my use case is as a sidekick to a desktop but I know full well that in practice the 12 will be my main device and the desktop will become the pinch hitter for demanding tasks.
I’m planning to get a 48GB module. The price to capacity ratio is ok, better than 32GB modules, and it’s enough that I won’t feel the need to upgrade it even if I upgrade the motherboard later (hopefully DDR5 will stay with us long enough to allow that).
edit: due to my financial situation i decided to go with 16GB for now, i can upgrade it later when i have money to spare again
I figure that if I re-home the original mainboard, it will need the RAM.
I’m only interested in 32GBs- even though 48GB prices might scale reasonably, I just don’t have the room in my budget for it. Considering I was originally planning on getting 16GBs (and my current computer only has 8), 32 should be plenty enough for me. I’ve reached out to support a couple times now asking questions about their supported module list. The big question I have that I’m waiting to be answered is: why is there a module on the list running at 4800 speed?? They even say at the top of the page that they only recommend modules that natively run at 5200 speed. We’ll see what their answer is lol
