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‎06-29-2020 06:34 AM

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Product: HP pavilion 15 Pentium silver N5000
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

So i got this brand new Hp pentium silver last year and it says i had 2 ram slots so some weeks ago i got an 8gb ram ddr4 to add to the 4gb already present 

On disassembling the system i found out there isn't a second slot just a soace where it should be so i was wondering if it was wise to solder another ram slot unto the motherboard 

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‎06-29-2020 07:35 AM

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Hi:

 

You wouldn't be able to solder another memory slot to the motherboard and have it work.

 

Models with the Pentium/Celeron processors only have one memory slot.

 

The reason the PC only has one memory slot is 8 GB is the maximum memory the processor can handle.

 

Here are the processor specs below...

 

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/128990/intel-pentium-silver-n5000-processor-4m-...

 

So even if you were the most skillful soldering technician in the world and somehow added a second slot, adding another 8 GB of memory to the PC wouldn't work because the processor couldn't handle it.

 

So...remove the 4 GB memory chip and replace it with an 8 GB memory chip to max out the memory.

 

You didn't lose anything because you didn't buy 2 x 8 GB of memory.  Now that would have been a shame.

 

 

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