DDR5? Want to upgrade my HP Pavilion 15-cs3000 series to DDR5. Y/N? Max GB?

[Quinnbea9]

Have added in a 1TB NVME SSD and have seen a big improvement, but I am honestly quite hard on my poor laptop, and would like to give it some DDR5 RAM to handle the load I put on the poor thing. Was wondering if it can handle DDR5, or just DDR4? Also, what GB can it handle taking?

Sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm pretty new to hardware mods.

Thank you all so much. Genuinely.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Your notebook only supports DDR4 memory.

DDR5 memory runs at a lower voltage, has a different number of contact pins and the slot in the DDR5 memory circuit board is cut in a different place, making it impossible for a DDR5 memory chip to fit in a DDR4 memory slot.

Your notebook supports a minimum of 2 x 8 GB of DDR4-2666 MHz CL19 memory.

Maintenance and Service Guide HP Pavilion 15 Laptop PC

You can also use DDR4-3200 MHZ CL22 memory, but it will only run at 2666 MHz.

The Crucial memory report for your notebook indicates it will support 2 x 32 GB of memory, but that is probably overkill.

You may want to install 2 x 16 GB of memory though.

HP - Compaq Pavilion 15-cs3065cl | Memory RAM & SSD Upgrades | Crucial IN

[Quinnbea9]

This is helpful, thank you!

I'll go for the 2 x 16GB DDR4 3200s then! 

Once again, thank you so much!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

The way operating systems and programs use more and more memory nowadays, you may find that you will need 64 GB of memory down the road.