• @douglasg14b
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      338 months ago

      Yeah, and solder it onto the board while you’re at it! Who ever needs to upgrade or perform maintenance anyways?

      • @[email protected]
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        -228 months ago

        They do make the most of it though. Soldered RAM can be much faster than socketed RAM, which is why GPUs do it too.

        • @[email protected]
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          198 months ago

          My knowledge of electrical engineering has not shown that solder increases performance. Do you have some more information on this?

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            8 months ago

            Solder doesn’t increase performance (the memory is soldered to something regardless, either the main board or an expansion board), but shorter physical distances mean lower latency and less power to transmit the same data. LPDDR4/5X are designed to take advantage of this additional efficiency.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            It would seem to be rational that the less mass of metal in a connection, the faster that connection will charge or discharge voltage. Physical sockets require a lot more mass just to ensure solid contact.

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            Well, that too, but that’s not particularly common on laptops or GPUs. Even in Apple silicon it’s not the same die, but it is the same package.

          • @[email protected]
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            18 months ago

            Shorter physical distance means less latency and lower power. Some memory types like LPDDR4X are built with assumptions that only apply to soldered RAM.