What's the actual RAM limit for a Thinkpad T510 CTO 4384 with i5-520M CPU?
I've often seen 16 GB working in Thinkpads even when manuals and Crucial state 8 GB, so asking before I upgrade. For example, here Crucial says the max RAM for the T420 with i5-2520M I'm using is 8GB, but 16GB runs AOK with full utilization.
I ran inxi -Fxmz
in Linux, with the results:
Memory:
RAM: total: 3.70 GiB used: 812.6 MiB (21.4%)
Array-1: capacity: 8 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 4 GiB
Device-1: DIMM 1 size: 2 GiB speed: 1066 MT/s type: DDR3
Device-2: DIMM 2 size: 2 GiB speed: 1066 MT/s type: DDR3
Update: There are 4 slots for modules as per pages 73 & 79 of the manual but when I opened the covers, there are only 2 sockets for DIMMs; there's space for another socket but the socket ain't there, dagnabit. Oh, bother.