HP 255 G7 (Ryzen 5 3500U) RAM and M.2 upgrading.

[RD995]

Sometimes good things fall apart.

 

[RD995]

I'm sorry for being late, so turns up the laptop was just fine without upgrading, ram is good and the hard disk is also good, no speed issues. So I have this Samsung DDR4 Memory which my older brother gave me, Since his lenovo laptop died, he's not a fan of laptops anymore, So I can't spot the speed of the stick on it, I think it is 2133 mhz, Still not sure about that, But is it okay if I use that with the 2400 mhz one already installed ? It would make a difference because the GPU uses 2 GBs (Hardware Reserved).

So the overall is 6 GBs

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Glad your notebook runs fine without upgrading.

I would not install the DDR4-2133 memory because that will slow the overall memory speed down from 2400 MHz to 2133 MHz.

[RD995]

Would that make a really big difference?

And still I don't know whether it's 2133 or 2400 or 2666 mhz. I can't know that until I put it in?

[RD995]

So if I go ahead and plug it in now, is there an app where it shows the info of the stick or task manager will do the job, CMD?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

Your notebook's processor can only run the memory at a max speed of 2400 MHz, but HP may have installed a DDR4-2666 MHz memory chip in there.

Use the free utility that I zipped up and attached below that will show you the speed of the memory chip HP installed.

[RD995]

Already have that installed 😀, I'll do that now.