Easy Question about RAM

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Fingers

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I want to add RAM memory. A scan of my computer system told me that it would support up to 3 GB of RAM. I now have 1 GB. To upgrade to 2 GB, do I have to buy a matching pair of RAM thingies, or can I keep the 1 GB RAM thingie that's in there, and add another one, so long as the new one is compatible??????? (It's an HP Pavilion running Vista 32-bit.)
 
well, depends depends on your motherboard as they support a particular type of ram(DDR1 , DDR2 OR DD3). Well. u can keep the 1gb ram chip and get the samy type ram chip(DDR thingy) and the same clock speed ram chip(usually 667mhz)
 
Fingers said:
I want to add RAM memory. A scan of my computer system told me that it would support up to 3 GB of RAM. I now have 1 GB. To upgrade to 2 GB, do I have to buy a matching pair of RAM thingies, or can I keep the 1 GB RAM thingie that's in there, and add another one, so long as the new one is compatible??????? (It's an HP Pavilion running Vista 32-bit.)
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Look at the board and see how many DIMM slots it has. If it has only two then you need to replace the 2 512MB DIMMS with 1GB DIMMS for a total of 2GB. If it has 4 then you can put 2 1GB DIMMS in the other pair and end up with 3 GB. I'm assuming a mainboard of fairly recent vintage. If it is more than 5 years old you may need to ignore everything I said.
 
We can problably find out if you post your model number as well. Sounds like it probably takes DDR2 and has 3 slots but I don't know for sure.
 
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