Laptop RAM upgrade

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Wurts

Okay I'm just giving broad strokes here for a general idea. I am trying to upgrade a fellow classmates gateway laptop from 4GB to at least 8GB. It has 2 slot max capacity of the board and it currently has a single 4GB stick in. The board caps out at 16GB of RAM at least according to specs I've found on it. So my question then is....Is it better to cap the board out with a single 16GB stick which it seems like I've seen some that are compatible to it, or is it a better choice to do it across 2 8GB sticks to reach the same 16GB cap? Not 100% sure but I am assuming that its got dual channel

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