Can I upgrade the ram on an HP G56 notebook

[DGreen]

Hi,

I've got an HP G56 Notebook PC running windows 7 64 bit OS.

Product no. XZ466EA#ABU

It has 3GB of RAM but apparently it can be upgraded to a max 8gb.

Is this true and would it be worth doing and if so would i see a great improvement in it's performance?

Thanks

[banhien]

Hi,

You can not see vast improvement from 3Gb to 8Gb, only from 1Gb to say 4Gb. But still some improvement. RAM is very cheap now, why not.

Regards.

[DGreen]

Thanks for that.

Do you think it's worth upgrading to 8GB seeing as though its on £28 for 2 x 4gb ram.

Also, the diagnostic software I ran said that there was a 2gb and 1 gb ram being used.

I was always led to believe that the ram sizes had to match in both slots ie 1gb & 1gb or 2gb & 2gb !

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It's up to your decision, back to the good old days, I paid A$240 for just 32Mb (yes Mb) for my tiny Toshiba Libretto (around year 2000). The RAM of both slot may not be the same, please check this:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architecture

Regards,

[DGreen]

I know, I remember those days.. I once had a ZX81 which had next to nothing for memory and I paid a fortune for a 16kb upgrade, yes kilobytes. This was circa 1980.