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HP RAM upgrade question

  • 06-01-2010 5:52pm
    #1
    jonnyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    I would like to upgrade the ram on my PC. I know there are other posts about this but as i dont know a whole lot about the internal working of a PC I hope you could help.

    I currently have a HP Pavilion m7590.uk (with media center).

    Processor is a Pentium D 3.4ghz. Ram currently 4 slots with 512mb in each. The best way to describe it is to give you the link to the HP spec site.

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00680716&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=3214120

    In the site it states that the maximum approved memory is 4gb.

    Can i go above 4gb?

    If I install the full 4gb does that mean I should have the 4 slots with even memory as in 1gb in each or can I just take out 2 512mb's and put in 2 1gb ram.

    I know I have probably over complicated this and sorry if I have, I would like to try buy more ram shortly. I use 3d max and Revit which a ram hungry.

    Thanks all


Comments

  • #2
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    You can stick in a 1GB DIMM in each slot to get 4GB, but this would mean you have to remove all the old RAM.

    You can stick in a 1GB DIMM in two slots and leave the other two alone. This is much cheaper, but gives you new problems: you now have 3GB of RAM, not 4GB. And all the RAM is forced to run at the speed of the slowest modules installed - probably the old ones.

    You can stick in 2 2GB sticks to get 4GB, so long as you remove all the old stuff. You could leave two of the old sticks in to get 5GB, but there's the same speed issue as above, and depending on chipset and BIOS it may or may not be stable with more than 4GB installed. It might not even be able to detect more than 4GB of installed memory...

    Oh, and even after all that, if you have a 32-bit operating system it won't be able to use any memory past the 3.25GB mark. D'oh.


  • #3
    Mister Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Mister Man


    Would it be worth the money he is spending for the ram as it is a pentium D?

    Anyway as said you can get 4 sticks of 1GB Of Ram, but prob better of just going to 3 as you have a 32 bit OS and it will only show 3.25GB

    Myself i think you are fine with 2GB of Ram with the Pentium maybe consider a upgrade instead?


  • #4
    Solitaire
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 18,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Solitaire


    But that gets very messy very quick if the OP has the second revision of that Asus mobo (Emery2). If they have the newer Leonite they can just drop in a 65nm C2D but as it started life with a Pentium D I hold little hope - the 3.4GHz is the fastest CPU available for the Emery series so you'd need to junk the mobo as well :( Plus PC2-4200 memory is a tad slow and naff nowadays...


  • #5
    jonnyj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭jonnyj


    Hi guys, thanks for the replys. I may leave it a while get the funds together. Might look into getting a new machine. Thanks


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