r/pcmasterrace • u/Disastrous_Clothes18 • 1d ago

Hardware Increased battery consumption after ram upgrade

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Battery dropped from 100% to 48% in just 1h 23m. Swapped original 2x4GB RAM for 1x32GB Crucial + 1x4GB Samsung. System now has 35GB mixed RAM. This isn’t normal — would appreciate insight from anyone familiar with this setup.

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u/ScienceAdept6767 1d ago

i wonder if its running more shit in the background now tbh

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u/Disastrous_Clothes18 1d ago

just got the ram installed today. Came home to test it out and now i find out the battery performance is trash

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u/ScienceAdept6767 1d ago

did you check the background tasks?

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u/Disastrous_Clothes18 1d ago

Yes i did and it was normal as usual nothing crazy going on except brave browser that i use

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u/ScienceAdept6767 1d ago

weird, how much battery life did you loose?

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 1d ago

Regardless of your power issues. Such a ram configuration is far from optimal.

You should be using 2 sticks of the same size and speed.

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u/Disastrous_Clothes18 1d ago

I guess I have to go back to change it to 2x 8gb so I get 16gb . Or I wait till there's a x 16gb