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‎03-20-2025 12:14 AM

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Product: HP Compaq Elite 8300 Base Model Small Form Factor PC

Since the mobo is 4 slots but only dual channel, what configuration will net better/more stable RAM performance, two 16 GB dimms or four 8 GB dimms?

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‎03-20-2025 07:22 AM - edited ‎03-20-2025 07:22 AM

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You can install 4 x 8 GB of memory in your PC.

 

2 x 16 GB won't work as each slot only supports an 8 GB memory chip.

 

Not to mention two DDR3-1600 16 GB memory chips would be very a expensive gamble not to have it work.

 

The memory upgrade info can be found on page 9 at the link below:

 

HP Compaq Elite 8300 Business PC

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‎03-20-2025 12:33 PM

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Where does the 8 GB  per slot maximum come from? I dont see anything mentioning that on the processor page https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/65719/intel-core-i73770-processor-8m-cache-up-t...

 

or in the chipset documentation https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/7-series-chipset-pch-datashe...

 

As for cost, Amazon lol.

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‎03-20-2025 01:38 PM

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If you want to try 2 x16 GB of memory in your PC, feel free to do so.

 

If you look at page 69 of the HP Quickspecs link I posted, HP only offered memory up to 8 GB in the model series.

 

 

 

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