HP Pavilion 17-ab319ur RAM

[lerrein]

Hello!

Please help me 🙂 

My laptop default ram is 8Gb DDR4 2133 Mhz. There are two slots for ram, so I'm thinking about upgrading, but my friend's father told me I can only have 16Gb of ram MAX because each slot supports only 8Gb… I kinda hoped for 32, so now I'm at loss what to do.

My service center is like "+16Gb? Alright, we'll do it, just give us the money". So, who should I trust? 

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You have an Intel i7 7th gen and your laptop uses or can use DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM. Laptops with Intel Core 6th gen and higher that use DDR4 have been proven to be able to take 32 gigs of memory and many resellers offer them configured as such. 

Since you would have to buy 2 modules to get there, get 2 x 16 gig DDR4-2400 as that is what the Service Manual says 7th gen models should have:

Service Manual

See p. 3. DDR4-2400 actually seems to be more widely available and a little cheaper right now than DDR4-2133. 

I have no HP document I can show you to prove this but we have had plenty of reports of success with upgrading to 32 gigs on these laptops. The question might legitimately be asked whether you can really take advantage of the 16 to 32 gig upgrade but I will let you decide that for yourself. 16 gigs is a lot of memory and will be sufficient for anything except the most demanding video editing, or similar high demand production work. 

Post back with any more questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed. 

[lerrein]

Thank you so much for your reply!

Can you please tell, if I can at first just change 8Gb ram to 16Gb (one module to one module, not +8, but to another one), and then look out for money for another 16Gb? Or should I buy both 16Gb simultaneously otherwise it won't work?