Low on RAM

[Douglas_5]

Have a HP Pavilion 690-0079 Desktop ; can more RAM be added ? Douglas

[NonSequitur777]

@Douglas_5,

Welcome to our peer-to-peer HP Community Forum!

Your HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690-0079 (2HL00AA) as fitted with a Lincs motherboard (SSID: 843B) can be fitted with up to 2 x 16GB of DDR4 PC4-25600, 3200 MHz, Non-ECC, Unbuffered, DIMM (UDIMM), 288-pin RAM sticks.  The RAM will be down throttled to 2666 MHz as per your PC's specs.

[EDIT:] Crucial claims even up to 2 x 32GB of RAM, but almost nobody really needs this much RAM, to be honest.

For best RAM performance, use identical RAM -same brand, model, and capacity.  Avoid so-called 'gaming RAM' such as Corsair and G.SKILL.

Btw, these power supplies are compatible with your desktop (helpful if you are also considering upgrading your graphics card):

310-watt power supply (p/n: L10875-800)
400-watt power supply (p/n: L04618-800)
500-watt power supply (p/n: L05757-800)

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Douglas_5]

Hi NonSequitur777 :

Sorry I got things wrong with my question ,  I may have gotten a computer that is not suitable for my needs .

After reading your answer I realize that it is not RAM I need but the hard drive is almost full - got a red warning : having 500GB hard drive running at 475 GB or so if I am reading my data correctly . Was guided to this machine because of the processor .

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1006
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 476.94 GB (512,105,932,800 bytes)
Total Cylinders 62,260
Total Sectors 1,000,206,900
Total Tracks 15,876,300
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 260.00 MB (272,629,760 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 476.20 GB (511,312,920,576 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 290,455,552 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 477.00 MB (500,170,752 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 511,603,376,128 bytes

Some data that might shed light on things .

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DESKTOP-QP5OUN6
System Manufacturer HP
System Model HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop 690-0xxx
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU 2HL00AA#ABL
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date AMI F.51, 2023-09-06
SMBIOS Version 3.2
Embedded Controller Version 17.29
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer HP
BaseBoard Product 843B
BaseBoard Version 00
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State On
PCR7 Configuration Binding Possible
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3636"
User Name DESKTOP-QP5OUN6\gejho
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 10.9 GB
Total Virtual Memory 18.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 11.0 GB
Page File Space 2.38 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/device(s) detected
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes

Being up in age - might be more than I can handle ... was hoping for some easy fix - but probably not .

Posted data section for over view .

Regards , Douglas