[wishinghand]

Why is that? Why would soldering the connections vs plugging them in affect how much data per second they transfer?

[colejohnson66]

Sockets have resistance and crosstalk, which affects signal integrity.

[aeonik]

Wait, your telling me, I should have been desoldering the sockets off my motherboard, and directly soldering my RAM to the leads this entire time?

[tejtm]

mind the gap