Laptop Memory Upgrade

[Berger]

Hi there,

I have a HP Pavilion DV6 that's a few years old now and I would like to upgrade the memory.

Currently has one stick of Samsung OEM ram which you can't buy off the shelf.

Samsung DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 4GB SO-DIMM Timings are 9-9-9.

I was just going to buy a 4gb stick of Corsair which matches the speed exactly, I don't know if it single or double sided chips (advertised as iMac memory).

I can't see any issues, but I have heard of Windows 7 being a bit picky, but with it being such a close match I thought it would be fine but wanted to check first.

 

[TechMinerUK]

Hi there,
I have a HP Pavilion DV6 that's a few years old now and I would like to upgrade the memory.
Currently has one stick of Samsung OEM ram which you can't buy off the shelf.
Samsung DDR3 SDRAM PC3-10600 4GB SO-DIMM Timings are 9-9-9.
I was just going to buy a 4gb stick of Corsair which matches the speed exactly, I don't know if it single or double sided chips (advertised as iMac memory).
I can't see any issues, but I have heard of Windows 7 being a bit picky, but with it being such a close match I thought it would be fine but wanted to check first.

It's not Windows 7 that's the issue but the motherboard of the laptop.
IMO I'd go with it as over the years I've mixed and matched all sorts of memory in laptops (Including a DV6) as most of the time the increased capacity has outweighed the issue of running each stick in single channel.

Maybe I've just been lucky

 

[rodt99]

Try the Crucial site for your ram compatibility. It's been pretty reliable for me.