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MJF1879

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I recently bought a Lenovo G500 during this years' Black Friday sales. I am looking to upgrade the RAM but the manufactorers specs online whenever I look tell me that the max supported RAM is 8Gb of DDR3 204 pin 1600MHz. BUT when I open the utility that came on the computer (Lenovo Solution Center) it is telling me that the max supported is 16Gb. It came with 4Gb installed in 1 of the 2 slots.

Which one do I believe or go by. I want to max out the RAM. Also is it better to go with 2 equal sticks (one for each slot) or 1 stick that will be the max.

There is also a slight difference in the Hard Drives in mine and in some of the others online. Mine is 1Tb and others only show a 500Gb.
 
I can give you the model # but other than that, all I know is that it is the G500

The model # is CB03100506

It also lists a model name which is 20236

it has the i5 processor

with Windows 8.1
 
Lenovo's website has the max at 8GB along with a few other websites.

Out of 6 websites, only 1 had a max of 16GB. If you could borrow RAM, or buy something cheap to test it out, I would.

TLDR: Max could be 16GB. 8GB is the safest bet.
 
Ok thanks.

That is what I found too except I didn't find one that listed the max at 16Gb. All of them I looked at said 8Gb was the max. I was planning on ordering a single 4Gb stick to fill up both slots and max it out. Then I got to playing around on the Lenovo Solution Center because I am still learning this computer and trying to figure it and this new Windows 8 out.

I don't know anyone with any Laptop RAM so I guess I will just go with my original plan and order the 4Gb stick to go with the one that is there.

It has been a while since I built my last computer and I don't remember if it is ok to mix the brands of RAM.

Do you think it would be a good idea to just order a set of 4Gb sticks to give me the 8Gb so they will be the same brand.
 
Digxt said:
Lenovo's website has the max at 8GB along with a few other websites.

Out of 6 websites, only 1 had a max of 16GB. If you could borrow RAM, or buy something cheap to test it out, I would.

TLDR: Max could be 16GB. 8GB is the safest bet.
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http://shop.lenovo.com/eg/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g500/#techspecs

Lenovo's website actually says 16GB...

You can mix brands but if one of the stick is slower than the other, the speed will be the one of the slower. I would buy two sticks of 8GB in case you need to replace one of them later on, it'll be less expansive than one 16GB. :)
 
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The only problem I see being that it was a black friday edition is that its very possible that they dummied down the specs of it to keep the price down. I just got done working on a lenovo laptop that was $199 a few years ago. Come to find out, it only has one speaker and one memory slot and only a 1.3 ghz cpu. It only came with 2gb of memory, I had to remove the 2gb and put in a 4gb. It definately improved speed but the 1.3 ghz cpu is still lagging a little.
 
I was afraid of that too but I have looked into mine and it is actually a little better than I anticipated.

here are some of the specs on it:
Intel Core i5 3rd Generation 2.6G
4Gb DDR3 RAM (Max ???)(that is what I am trying to find out)
2 RAM slots
Windows 8
1Tb Hard Drive
 
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