RAM Upgrade 8GB to 16GB

The OS side of this you have covered you will be able to support them, but now you will need to look at your hardware and wether or not it supports 16GB please post the part number of your motherboard so we can check for you.

Hi, just check in your motherboards manual to see if your motherboard does indeed support 16gb of memory, and you will need at least windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit to support 16gb of memory.

What do you use your PC for? Just to make sure it would justify you for adding the extra 8GB of RAM.

Can't find a part number. Following other writing on MB.

PCI Express 2.0
FSB1600
Dual Bios 1394
Ultra Durable 3
2oz Copper PCB

Does this help?

Can't find part number: Following writing on MB.

PCI Express 2.0
FSB 1600
Dual Bios 1394
Ultra Durable 3
20z Copper PCB

Does this help any?

Present DDR2 sticks are: KVR800D2N6K2/G2

Sounds like a gigabyte lga775 board, the model number will start with something like this GA-

it will be printed on the motherboard, just look in your manual for the memory support like said.

And i agree with Rizlla

Rizlla has the right idea. 8 GB of ram is most likely sufficient enough. I have 6GB running on my tower now and I do heavy CAD and engineering work and I have yet to have any slow downs.

We will need to know the motherboard model. Most PCI 2.0 board support up to 32GB of memory, but you will need to buy 4x4GB... which can get expensive.

Go to www.crucial.com and run the scanner. It will identify your hardware and tell you both what is in it now and what it is capable of.

As for if this is a worthwhile venture will depend on what you are doing with the system. I have some systems where 16gb isn't enough but that is because I am running many VMs at the same time.

only the new AM3+ MOBOs from AMD, LGA 1136 from Intel and the upcoming support maximum memory of 32 GB.

Not all the CPUs are capable of handling even a 16 GB of RAM, any strong quad, six core from Intel or AMD will handle it...
above 16 GB, you need at least a 12 core AMD opteron or Dual Socket Intel Xeon to support the addressed memory

He will only be going up to 16 GB as far as i know highly doubt he board will support anything higher, also It is a Gigabyte board the part number is generally printed in white either on the corners of the board or around the cpu cooler. Download Belarc advisor it will give you a part number for your system and forward that onto us.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

FM1, LGA 1155, and some AM3 motherboard supports 32GB. You just have to buy $100 8GB RAM sticks.

(not saying everything else will support it, but the motherboards themselves do)

FM1 is an APU socket, high end AM3 MOBOs from gigabyte "890FXA-UD7" and Asus "Crosshair IV Extreme" both supports maximum of 16 GB not 32 GB

Memory Upgrade: Is It Time To Add More RAM?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-memory-upgrade,...

Give me an e-mail address I can forward the entire Belarc report to. I have that but still no "part number" tnhat I can see.

The report says I have only 4GB RAM right now? Thought I had 4 2GB mem sticks installed.

My e-mail address is: sabiston@knology.net

pecs.pilkington@gmail.com

I'll take a look under motherboard there should be a part number.