DDR3L into DDR3 slots

[ajma_02]

In the AMD's APU website, I looked for AMD A10-8700P with Radeon R6 and it tells 'Memory Interface:DDR3' , 'Memory Max speed:2133MHz'. Online BestBuy~Toshiba Satellite C55D-C5106 with A10-8700P Radeon R6 has 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz in it. Is DDR3L can be put on DDR3 slots?

 

[Petrossa]

DDR3L ram is low voltage ram and is not recommended to be inserted into regular DDR3 slots. They will burn out unless you can manually set the voltage lower, which in the case of a laptop, you cannot do.
Personally I would err on the side of caution and never try using L sticks in normal slots.

 

[Pinhedd]

In the AMD's APU website, I looked for AMD A10-8700P with Radeon R6 and it tells 'Memory Interface:DDR3' , 'Memory Max speed:2133MHz'. Online BestBuy~Toshiba Satellite C55D-C5106 with A10-8700P Radeon R6 has 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz in it. Is DDR3L can be put on DDR3 slots?

Petrossa has no idea what he's talking about, so feel free to disregard what he said.

DDR3L is simply DDR3 that has passed additional low-voltage stability tests. It is identical to, and fully backwards compatible with DDR3. Please keep in mind that the usual compatibility considerations apply.

 

[Petrossa]

In the AMD's APU website, I looked for AMD A10-8700P with Radeon R6 and it tells 'Memory Interface:DDR3' , 'Memory Max speed:2133MHz'. Online BestBuy~Toshiba Satellite C55D-C5106 with A10-8700P Radeon R6 has 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz in it. Is DDR3L can be put on DDR3 slots?

Petrossa has no idea what he's talking about, so feel free to disregard what he said.

DDR3L is simply DDR3 that has passed additional low-voltage stability tests. It is identical to, and fully backwards compatible with DDR3. Please keep in mind that the usual compatibility considerations apply.

Listen dude, there's no need to be rude about it. None of us here can claim to know all and we all get it wrong from time to time.
In this case, yes, I've got it wrong.

 

[ajma_02]

DDR3L ram is low voltage ram and is not recommended to be inserted into regular DDR3 slots. They will burn out unless you can manually set the voltage lower, which in the case of a laptop, you cannot do.
Personally I would err on the side of caution and never try using L sticks in normal slots.

The DDR3L is said to have the ability to set its own voltage to 1.35 or 1.5. Maybe because in AMD's website, they're selling only laptops with AMD A10-8700P and not for desktops. But DDR3L is backward compatibility of DDR3 but can use lower voltage of 1.35 when not using excessive computing.

 

[ajma_02]

In the AMD's APU website, I looked for AMD A10-8700P with Radeon R6 and it tells 'Memory Interface:DDR3' , 'Memory Max speed:2133MHz'. Online BestBuy~Toshiba Satellite C55D-C5106 with A10-8700P Radeon R6 has 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz in it. Is DDR3L can be put on DDR3 slots?

Petrossa has no idea what he's talking about, so feel free to disregard what he said.

DDR3L is simply DDR3 that has passed additional low-voltage stability tests. It is identical to, and fully backwards compatible with DDR3. Please keep in mind that the usual compatibility considerations apply.

I also need some explanations on how well does a RAM if the laptop's motherboard supports only single-channel "[strike]memory[/strike]"(because of the instructure of Carrizo APUs). How about on dual-channel? Is it better to use 1x8GB DDR3L 2133MHz or 2x4GB? I'm talking about laptop not for desktop.
In my opinion:

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  1x8GB is better with single-channel [strike]memory[/strike] instead of using 2x4GB
  

2x4GB is better with dual channel [strike]memory[/strike] instead of using only one 8GB

 

[Pinhedd]

In the AMD's APU website, I looked for AMD A10-8700P with Radeon R6 and it tells 'Memory Interface:DDR3' , 'Memory Max speed:2133MHz'. Online BestBuy~Toshiba Satellite C55D-C5106 with A10-8700P Radeon R6 has 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz in it. Is DDR3L can be put on DDR3 slots?

Petrossa has no idea what he's talking about, so feel free to disregard what he said.

DDR3L is simply DDR3 that has passed additional low-voltage stability tests. It is identical to, and fully backwards compatible with DDR3. Please keep in mind that the usual compatibility considerations apply.

I also need some explanations on how well does a RAM if the laptop's motherboard supports only single-channel "[strike]memory[/strike]"(because of the instructure of Carrizo APUs). How about on dual-channel? Is it better to use 1x8GB DDR3L 2133MHz or 2x4GB? I'm talking about laptop not for desktop.
In my opinion:

• 
  
  
  1x8GB is better with single-channel [strike]memory[/strike] instead of using 2x4GB
  

2x4GB is better with dual channel [strike]memory[/strike] instead of using only one 8GB

The number of DIMMs installed is largely an irrelivant consideration. What matters is the number of ranks that are installed. A single 8GiB DIMM constructed from two 4GiB ranks is identical to two 4GiB DIMMs constructed from one 4GiB rank each.

However, a single 8GiB DIMM constructed from two 4GiB ranks will be outperformed by two 4GiB DIMMs constructed from two 2GiB ranks each. More ranks = better, especially at the same installed capacity and data rate

 

[Tradesman1]

Like many innovations in DRAM - the DDR3L is nothing more than a set of Standards, published sort of after the fact, by JEDEC. Just like the DDR3 data rates, low voltage DRAM was broght to us and originated with the memory manufacturers. JEDEC 'finally' issed 'standards' for DDR3L in 2013 in anticipation of Skylake and the release of DDR4, with the thought of hybrid mobos that could use either DDR3/DDR4 hybrid mobos, much as we saw with the latter socket 775 mobos released in conjunction with DDR3s unveiling, when we had hybrids that could run DDR2 or DDR3... Interesting thing was their had already been 1.35 and even 1.25 DDR3 available for a couple of years before JEDEC released the 'standards'. The memory manufacturers were already testing the waters going back to socket 1366 and had tri channel kits out so they could get a headstart on using lower voltages for their designs of DDR4. The manufacturers did the same with faster DDR3 datarates, JEDECs specs called for DDR3 to only go to 1600, but the manufacturers took it above anbd beyond, there were already 2800 sets out, before JEDEC got 'standards' released for 1866 and 2133 😉

DDR4 is the same, JEDEC is in it's own little world, DDR4 'standards' call for DDR4 in 1600, 1866, 2133 and 2400, and as you may have seen 1600 and 1866 have been ignored, and we basically saw 2800 from the initial release of DDR4 sticks and today you can find them up to 4266 with even faster coming down the road

Also, DDR3L (1.35) is perfectly fine running at 1.5