Need to upgrade RAM on a HP 251

[El06]

Hi HP Community, I have a HP Desktop 251-108a it is about 8 years old. I have 8GM RAM and I wish to upgrade. From the information, I have been able to find I believe I can upgrade the RAM. I have not opened up the PC yet to see if there is one slot or two for the RAM. That is, I am not sure if there is only 1 x  Ram of 8GB or 2 slots with 4 GB each.

Can anyone advise if I can upgrade to 64GB (1 RAM) or 2 (32GB of RAM) or what is the max amount of RAM I can upgrade to for this model PC?  My PC is running very slow even though I have more space available than I know what to do with, I have cleaned up junk mail, run CC Cleaner, and Ashampoo software and have antivirus on my machine. I believe it is the memory as it states I only have between 20-25% left.

Thanking you in advance for any help/guidance you can provide. 

Regards

El

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hi

HP 251-108a Desktop PC Product Specifications

is see

hdd

Size: 2 TB
Interface: SATA
Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM

you have a large hdd disk it's a little slow, will have to see then, if an ssd could also help

so

• Amount: 8 GB
• Speed: PC3-12800 MB/s
• Type: DDR3-1600

probably a module, not specified, so check

• Dual channel memory architecture
• Two 240-pin DDR3 DIMM sockets
• Supports the following:
  • PC3 10600 (DDR3-1333)
  • PC3 12800 (DDR3-1600)
• Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB DIMMs
• Supports up to 4 GB on 32-bit systems

  note:

  32-bit systems cannot address a full 4.0 GB of memory.

• Supports up to 16 GB (unbuffered) on 64-bit computers

here 16 gb max, but it should be enough
many people think that 64 gb is better, but often there won't even be 32 gb to use, no interest!

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