Help Upgrading my RAM

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bigDB93

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Hi, my first post here, plus i am a novice so bear with me please.

I have a HP zv6007us notebook with AMD 64 Athlon 3200 2GHZ i bought new in June/2005. It currently has 512mb of RAM made up by two 256mb ram memory sticks. I decided i wanted to double that to 1gig of RAM. I emailed HP & they said that i could go with 2 512mb memory sticks or one 1gb memory stick it wouldnt matter, so i bought the one 1gb stick wich i havent recieved yet. My problem is that since i have done this there has been someone on another forum that has told me i have made a mistake because my pc has dual channel memory & i have to have 2 sticks of 512mb as using just one stick of 1gig will not give me the best performance. I talked to live tech support at HP & they said i was going to be fine & then used the system scan tool at crucial.com & it says my pc doesnt support dual channel memory, so i post this info & the guy says that all amd 64 athlon uses dual channel & i am making a mistake. Could someone PLEASE give me some good info here, i would really appreciate it. Thanks for any help!
 
All S939 and AM2 Athlon 64s have dual channel memory, S754 ones do not. HP doesn't say what type of Athlon 64 is in the laptop. I find it odd that they would put one in anyway as Turion 64s are the mobile chip from AMD, is it a desktop replacement?

Grab CPUz and check the memory tab. If it says dual under channels # on the right side then you have dual channel now. It will also tell you what package (socket) the CPU uses on the CPU tab.
 
Cromewell said:
All S939 and AM2 Athlon 64s have dual channel memory, S754 ones do not. HP doesn't say what type of Athlon 64 is in the laptop. I find it odd that they would put one in anyway as Turion 64s are the mobile chip from AMD, is it a desktop replacement?

Grab CPUz and check the memory tab. If it says dual under channels # on the right side then you have dual channel now. It will also tell you what package (socket) the CPU uses on the CPU tab.
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as far as it being a desktop replacement i am not sure what you mean, sorry i am a novice, i just bought this as i liked it better than any other laptop BB had.

ok i used CPUz & next to where it says channels # it says SINGLE

it says the socket is 939

So then what does this tell me?
thanks for the reply!
 
That says you have single channel and since you are using 2 sticks of RAM replacing them with a single 1GB stick will result in no performance loss. :)
 
Cromewell said:
That says you have single channel and since you are using 2 sticks of RAM replacing them with a single 1GB stick will result in no performance loss. :)
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! that guy had me so worried i was gonna mess up my computers perfonce. once again THANKS:D
 
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