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Used for: Less than a month
My laptop drops it to 5200 and there is no setting to change that
Three stars is about the memory being fine and the situation being frustrating. The modules themselves test perfectly, a full MemTest86 pass with nothing flagged. What I did not check before ordering is whether my machine would actually run them at 5600. It does not. Populate both slots and the firmware drops everything to 5200, and there is no memory setting anywhere in the BIOS to override it, no XMP tab, nothing. Kingston are not at fault for that, but I paid a premium for 5600 modules that are running slower than the number on the label. If you are buying SODIMMs for a laptop, find out what your machine does with two modules populated first. On a desktop board you would just enable the profile. Here you get whatever the manufacturer decided, and mine decided 5200.
Used for: More than a year
One 32GB module means single channel until you buy a second
Went into a mini PC running Home Assistant and a handful of containers, and the single 32GB module has been up continuously with no errors logged. It runs at the full 5600 in that machine, which surprised me for a little box! Worth knowing that one module means single channel, so if you care about bandwidth rather than capacity, buy two smaller ones. Two years of uptime, broken only by power cuts.
Used for: 6–12 months
Ran at 5600 in a laptop that shipped with 4800
Runs hot enough in a thin chassis to cost me clock speed
Mixed feelings about this one. In a mini PC it would probably be five stars, but in a thin laptop it has caused me a problem I did not anticipate. The good part is that it does run at 5600 where the factory modules were 4800, and the machine picked it up with no BIOS setting needed at all. Multicore scores went up by about eight percent and the extra 32GB means Lightroom no longer stalls on a big import. Nine months of that and I would still call it a worthwhile swap. The problem is heat. Under the keyboard there is almost no airflow over the modules, and with a long export running the whole area gets uncomfortably warm and the CPU starts pulling its clocks back sooner than it did on the original memory. HWiNFO shows the memory sensor sitting in the mid sixties. In a thicker machine this would not be an issue.
Used for: 1–3 months
Doubled the memory in a Framework 13 in about four minutes
Two SODIMMs into a Framework laptop, back cover off, done before the kettle boiled. Both slots detected at 5600 and the machine has not complained once!