HP Pavilion dv6000 Series & RAM

JohnK · 2008-08-06 09:56:24

I've got a HP Pavilion from the dv6000 series with the exact model being dv6614tx and I want to upgrade the memory. Now the problem is that HP say it can take upto 4gb but the likes of Crucial say it can only take 2gb so I'm a little confused. I actually spoke to the people at Crucial and they were quite adamant they were…

06-08-2008 10:56AM

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I've got a HP Pavilion from the dv6000 series with the exact model being dv6614tx and I want to upgrade the memory. Now the problem is that HP say it can take upto 4gb but the likes of Crucial say it can only take 2gb so I'm a little confused. I actually spoke to the people at Crucial and they were quite adamant they were right even when I told them what the HP site said.

HP Site
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01423541&lc=en&cc=ie&lang=en&rule=28047&dlc=en&product=3562272

Crucial
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/ListParts.aspx?model=Pavilion%20dv6000%20Series

So on to my questions. Does anyone know for sure how much it can take? I dont want to go out and buy 4gb only to find its useless. Secondly since its a 32bit machine I realise it'll only be able to recognise somewhere between 3gb and 3.5gb so would there be any benefit to getting the 2x2gb matched pairs rather than just swapping one of my existing 1gb with a 2gb?

thanks.

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#2 06-08-2008 06:31PM

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Cruical are wrong, there are so many different hardware configs in the dv6000 range, some have 2GB Maximum, some have 4GB Maximum and some have 8GB maximum, depends on the model, there is no one size fits all solution

I have a DV6899ea and it's max is 4GB, I would always trust HP, after all they do make this.

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#3 06-08-2008 07:21PM

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commuter beat me to it. dv6000 is pretty vague:

Master List of all HP laptops in the dv6000 series

On a side note: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055333078

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#4 06-08-2008 10:39PM

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Thanks for the replies! Surprising that Crucial got it so wrong - you'd think they'd be trying to stuff every machine with as much memory as they could. Now I just need to figure out exactly what sort of memory it can take so I can get the best it'll handle.

Overheal wrote: »

On a side note: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055333078

bugger

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#5 06-08-2008 10:58PM

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"Now I just need to figure out exactly what sort of memory it can take so I can get the best it'll handle."

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=c00820047&dlc=en&product=3380544

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#6 07-08-2008 12:40AM

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Ta very much

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