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Goofygiggles

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Hello,
My friend has a HP Pavilion p6000 and has four gigabytes of ram.
He wants an upgrade but I simply don't know a lot about ddr2 ram compatibility and what brands are considered good. As I'm fairly certain the p6000 uses ddr2 I was wondering if you guys had suggestions for under $50 (not used). The only ram I found that I thought was okay was A-tech memory for $15 but it was ECC and I'm not sure if that works on his consumer board. Thanks in advance!
 
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That board has 4 slots so you can use four cheap 2GB sticks which are $6ea for used, name brand sticks on eBay (4GB sticks would be far more expensive). DDR2-800 wasn't around long enough for any compatibility issues to develop unlike DDR3.

I would strongly prefer used name brand over new generic because DDR2 chips haven't been made by reputable manufacturers for 5 years now (new brand name DIMMs are going to be made from new-old-stock chips so would understandably be extremely rare). Used is very likely to be reliable so long as they aren't "enthusiast" models but instead the cheap ValueRAM types.

For the record, ECC should work too if it is unbuffered which means not registered. And of course in DIMMs...
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It uses ddr2. However it cannot use ecc memory. Max ram is 8gb according to what I've found.
 
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That board has 4 slots so you can use four cheap 2GB sticks which are $6ea for used, name brand sticks on eBay (4GB sticks would be far more expensive). DDR2-800 wasn't around long enough for any compatibility issues to develop unlike DDR3.

I would strongly prefer used name brand over new generic because DDR2 chips haven't been made by reputable manufacturers for 5 years now (new brand name DIMMs are going to be made from new-old-stock chips so would understandably be extremely rare). Used is very likely to be reliable so long as they aren't "enthusiast" models but instead the cheap ValueRAM types.

For the record, ECC should work too if it is unbuffered which means not registered. And of course in DIMMs, not FB-DIMMs, and obviously not in ECC mode. But why risk it when good used RAM is so cheap?
 
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Alright, thanks so much for the details and the help!
 
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He recently got a cpu upgrade and has 64bit windows 10.. I'm going to make sure he has four ram slots but I'm pretty sure he does. Thanks for the help!
 
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I just thought I would give you my experience with this same issue. I recently upgraded my older computer with DDR2 ram(800MH PC-2 6400), same as your friend, I had 4GB and the max my board would hold was 8GB.(two slots) I have an AMD chip, and found some cheap no name on eBay for about $20, didn't work. It would boot once in a while then free up. The seller refunded my money and I forgot about it for a couple months, then found a name brand memory (Samsung) from a Chinese seller also for $20, just got them in and they work just fine.
 
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Thanks!
 
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