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‎09-02-2020 06:15 AM - last edited on ‎09-02-2020 08:33 AM by Retired

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Product: Pavilion DV6
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi, can someone please sort out this confusion on my laptop.

 

It is a Pavilion DV6  Serial [Personal Information Removed]  Prod No: XE040EA#ABU with Intel(R) Core TM i7 CPU Q720 @ 1.6GHz.

 

Can I install 2 x 8GB RAM chips for 16GB as some say OK and others max at 8GB as 2 X 4GB RAM chips??????

 

I really would like to get to 16GB RAM as I have upgraded HD to 512 SSD

 

many thanks

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‎09-02-2020 07:28 AM

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Hi:

 

My understanding is the notebooks with the first gen quad core processors can run 2 x 8 GB of memory.

 

None of the specs will tell you that.  They all state 2 x 4 GB is the max.

 

Even Intel indicates the max memory for the processor your notebook has is limited to 8 GB.

 

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43122/intel-core-i7-720qm-processor-6m-cache-1-...

 

If you do a search on the forum you will find a few posts where folks installed 16 GB of memory in their notebooks with the 1st gen quad core processors, and it worked.

 

I can't find any of those posts though.

 

The bigger issue for you will be to find the right memory that works.

 

It can't be DDR3-12800, it can't be 1.35V, and it has to have 8 little black memory chips on each side of the circuit board, not 4.

 

It would need to be DDR3-10600, 1.5V, non-ECC, unbuffered, 8 black chips on each side of the circuit board.

 

 

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