Upgrade

[MartyMcG]

Just bought a HP Pavilion 590-p0076 Desktop PC, AMD Ryzen™ 5, 8GB Memory, 1TB Hard Drive, Windows® 10 Home.  Can I add 16GB of Optane storeage to improve performance?  Thanks

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

AMD does not support Intel Optane.

You can install a PCIe 3.0x4 NVME M.2 drive as a bootable device. Then you can use the HDD as a data drive.

This upgrade will also greatly improve your PC's performance.

Regards

[MartyMcG]

Thank you for quick response,  

My email below does not appear to line up with your post.

What am I missing,

Thanks!!

Grzwacz (Distinguished Professor) posted a new reply in Desktop Hardware and Upgrade Questions on 11-27-2018 09:29 PM

Subject: Re: Upgrade

 Greetings,
Welcome to the forum.
I am not a HP employee.

Yes, you can do this.

Your PC has a M.2 socket. This socket is located near the RAM slots and the SATA ports.

Regards

[Grzwacz]

Hi,

My initial response was incorrect because I failed to note your system has a AMD Ryzen processor.

An Intel system can use Optane. AMD systems cannot use Optane.

Sorry about that.

Regards

[REO51ST · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the forum @MartyMcG

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023994/memory-and-storage/intel-optane-m...

What are the base requirements to run Intel Optane memory?

• 7th Generation (or newer) Intel® Core™ Processor.
• Intel® 200 Series Chipset (or newer).
• Intel Optane memory ready UEFI BIOS. Legacy BIOS mode isn't supported.
• Intel® BIOS SATA controller mode set to "Intel® RST...."
• Remapping enabled on the PCIe slot connecting the Intel® Optane™ memory module. (See the motherboard vendors user manual for more information.)
• Windows® 10 x64.
• Intel Rapid Storage Technology 15.5 or newer driver.
• Note: Some features/capabilities are only supported on later drivers, so it's recommended to always use the latest supported on your platform.
• Drive to be accelerated.1:
• SATA-based primary/system boot drive or secondary/data drive.2 
• GPT Partition table is required for SATA disk to be accelerated. (Drives setup with MBR partition tables aren't supported for acceleration.)
• 5MB available at the end of disk.

1 Intel Optane memory can only accelerate SATA-based drives (SSD, SSHD, HDD). You can use it with 2.5", 3.5", or M.2 form factor drives as long as they're connected with chipset lanes. 2  SATA-based data/secondary drive acceleration is supported on select Processor/Chipsets and Intel® RST drivers.

REO