How much maximum RAM supported in Laptop LENOVO THINKPAD E530 3259T2Q

Hiiii,


I am in need to upgrade RAM of my laptop LENOVO THINKPAD EDGE SERIES E530 PART NO. 3259T2Q.Currently it has 4GB (2 x 2gb).


I am not sure how much I can expand RAM Memory upto?


As of now I have tried some of the scanner (memorystock.com , www.crucial.com ) present online and also scanned my system with softwares like CPUID CPU-Z, AIDA64 Engineer, AIDA64 Extreme which all says I my laptop supports MAX MEMORY upto 16 GB.


I have done a lot research on web but official document from Lenovo contradicts with the scanners results as Lenovo says it supports max upto 8 GB only.


Please suggest on max RAM supported for my Laptop.

 

that machine looks like it was originally configurable with the i7-3612QM, i5-3320M, i5-3210M, and i5-3120M. assuming your setup has one of those chips, max supported/addressable RAM by a 64-bit OS would be 32 GB. you may also be hardware limited, however, by the number of physical DIMM slots. because the utilities you're running indicate a 16 GB maximum, that may mean you only have two slots on your motherboard. ergo, the max configurable memory in your rig is, in fact, 16 GB (2x8 GB) since 1x16 GB laptop sticks don't exist.

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EDIT: the Lenovo link to tech specs states "(2 DIMM slot)." your answer is 16 (2x8) GB.

 

they do actually
http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/

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I use the ECC version in the new Mac Pro Trashcan and also have a set of 4 in a Clevo Xeon based workstation for 64 GB ( none of the intel mobile CPU's prior to Broadwell support them, AMD APU's etc however do )

as fot the OP's question yes 16 GB is the maximum on that machine ( 2 x 8GB modules ) as I know a couple members on here have done that upgrade but can't think of who at the moment.

 

hah, i knew i'd get caught for my cursory Google/Amazon/Newegg search. laptop sticks, so trashcan doesn't count. and DTRs with non-mobile chips are a gray area.

but still i may have learned something new today -- so Broadwell mobile variants and on support single 16 GB sticks? that's in anticipation of DDR4, i presume?

 

and yes to my knowledge broadwell only supports one just to keep irritating all of us. AMD can support 4 of them as can intel desktop CPU's but not the mobile chips.

I keep forgetting I have a preproduction Mac Pro which oddly .... uses SODIMMS that Apple decided to go away from in the end.

 

If you have this processor:

See:
http://ark.intel.com/products/70927/Intel-Core-i3-2328M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_20-GHz

Or higher, then it supports 2x 8GB SoDimms of DDR3 1066/1333 speeds.

Of course, whether the BIOS limits that is another story.

 

I have not seen a BIOS limit RAM in quite a long while now. I've seen boards be fussy about which RAM SODIMMs they like or not, but nothing like the previous 2-3 GB artificial limits from the early 2000s.

@ OP, any ivy bridge CPU will take 16 GB of RAM from my experience as long as the sockets are there which they are in this case.

If you can upgrade to 2x 4GB, I'd do it. 16 GB is nice, but if it's hard to come by or too expensive, go for 8 GB' you won't regret it either.

 

I too haven't seen BIOS limits for RAM in a dogs age, but just covering my ***.

OP, what is your workflow? Even for 'simple' multi-tasking maxing out the RAM is worth while (yeah; even at current prices.

See:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dram-benchmark-fluctuations,4080.html

Look under the Comparative Analysis heading for the table comparing 8GB to 32GB in single and multitasking operations.

The 8GB platform takes the longest to run the single task tests and also needs almost twice as long (94% longer) to do the same test in a multitasking situation.

The 16GB and 32GB platforms take less time for running the single task, but when multitasking the 16GB platform takes only 85% longer and the 32GB platform takes even less at ~77% addition time to run the same task, with other operations in the background running at the same time.

If you think you're not multitasking - stop; you are. Even when you're running a single program you are multitasking with Windows for every last drop of CPU+RAM performance you can give it.


Go for 16GB. Doing anything less is simply leaving your system in an unbalanced state (component to component).

 

My laptop have Processor – Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2328M CPU @ 2.20GHz, Chipset- Northbridge:Intel Sandy Bridge rev. 09,Southbridge : Intel HM77 rev. 04, BIOS Properties:Vendor LENOVO Version H0ET94WW (2.54 ).

As per the suggestion as of now, I have understood that Chipset/CPU can support 16 gb but it is the motherboard/bios which can restrict it to support max 8gb as specified in the official documentation of e530 by Lenovo.
Is there any to way check max RAM support in specific with BIOS version/motherboard?

 

No, but don't worry about it. Install 16GB if you need that amount of RAM and call it a day.

 

Not quite the same thing, but what about the discussion in the M3800 Owner's thread about asking Dell to modify the BIOS to support 16GB DIMMs in order to allow for 32GB in a notebook with only two slots?

 

That an Intel CPU limitation, nothing to do with BIOS

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7742/im-intelligent-memory-to-release-16gb-unregistered-ddr3-modules