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    LENOVO Thinkpad W540 MAX RAM

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by lostguy, May 26, 2017.

  1. lostguy

    lostguy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    Does anyone know what is the max ram on this laptop? It had 4 slots and I put 8GB ON EACH SLOTS But the laptop only show 16GB on the bios. My laptop is an i5. Thanks in advance


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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    If your i5 is a dual core, the most memory it can support is 16 GB. Quad core models can do 32 GB.


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    saturnotaku, May 27, 2017
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    lostguy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank saturnotaky! do you know if this laptop CPU is upgradable ?
     
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    Leon321, May 29, 2017
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    lostguy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi All,

    So if I can upgrade MY CPU to i7 then the motherboard will regconise 32gb ram. Is there any bios upgrade or configuration change that I need to do. Thanks in advance


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    no, but always worth looking at updating the bios before you upgrade the cpu.

    i got a W541 and i'm looking at installing an i7-4940MX which should last me for a while.
     
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