I want to upgrade my 8gb 1Rx16 to dual channel ram to 8gb 2Rx8 Single channel ram

[Majistor]

I want to upgrade my 8gb 1Rx16 to dual channel ram to 8gb 2Rx8 Single channel ram in my laptop. By this, I can have room for future upgrades and also believe that it will increase the speed of the system.

I have doubt, will it be capable with my laptop .

I will be using SKHYNIX ram MTA16ATF2G64HZ-3G2J1

[banhien]

@Majistor 

I don't know what are you trying to do because physically RAM sticks on your machine are same size.  Its specs

                https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c08484253

It has  8 GB DDR4-2933 MHz RAM (2 x 4 GB) now. You can upgrade to

• 16GB (2x8GB) using  https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k8g4sfra32a/ct22140174      (RAM will run at 2933MHz)
• 32GB: (2x16GB) using https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k16g4sfra32a/ct22140205   (RAM will run at 2933MHz)
• 64GB (2x32GB) using  https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k32g4sfd832a/ct22140201  (RAM will run at 2933MHz)

Regards.

[Majistor]

I'm trying to upgrade rank of my ram and also make room for future upgrades.

[banhien]

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@Majistor wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade rank of my ram and also make room for future upgrades.

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@Majistor 

As mentioned before RAM sticks are the SAME size on yours machine, Make room for what ? 8GB 1Rx16 physically is same size with 8GB 2Rx8

Regards.

[Majistor]

See, i have 2 4gb ram sticks installed,  so I want to install 1 stick of 8 gb so that I can install one more 8 gb ram stick later because I don't have money at the moment. I wanted to know will my laptop support 2Rx8 ram or not.

[banhien]

@Majistor 

OK, I know the reason now. You can install 8GB in one slot now. You can use compatible RAM such as

               https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct8g4sfra32a/ct22879699            (Ram will run at 2666MHz)

Regards.

[Majistor]

I will return to my original question, will 2rx8 be compatible with my system

[banhien]

@Majistor 

It should, 2R or 1R is the way vendors put chịps on physical sticks

Hope this makes sense.

Regards.