ddr3l vs ddr3

I recently upgraded my ram from 6 GB to 16 GB. My laptop is about 8 years old, it runs DDR3 RAM. I bought a pair of 8 GB sticks, DDR3L and according to the description they are dual voltage and they work both in 1.35V and 1.5V. HWiNO64 confirms VDD is 1.5 and 1.35V. My old dual channel RAM (2...

Hi, I game on a roughly 5-year old PC that I built in 2015. I want to upgrade the RAM from 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz to a 16 GB DDR3L kit I purchased from Crucial on Black Friday. When I installed the new RAM, the computer got stuck in its POST cycle and the D-RAM LED came on solid...

I have a Dell Optiplex 3020 MT (Mini-Tower) with processor i5-4570 which is Haswell family. The RAM supplied by Dell with the computer was Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 - DDR3 4GB 1600Hz PC3-12800 and it works well. However, note that the memory is DDR3 and NOT DDR3L. Dell has published a...