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    1600Mhz RAM compatible with dv6 61** series?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by FourNTwenty, Feb 14, 2012.

  1. FourNTwenty

    FourNTwenty Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm planning on purchasing these sticks from newegg to install in my laptop, is the dv6 6170us capable of 1600Mhz?
     
    FourNTwenty, Feb 14, 2012
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    zuvieltext Notebook Geek

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    According to Intel, the 2630QM supports just DDR3-1066/1333. However the timings for the 1600 sticks
    might be slightly better.
     
    zuvieltext, Feb 14, 2012
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    electroman0076 Newbie

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    I have a dv6 6170 and the motherboard does in FACT support DDR3 1600 if you have one of the high end i7 Sandy Bridge chips. For instance I have an i7 2820QM which based on the HP Repair manual for the dv6 6000 series was the best chip available in the dv6 quad with HM65 chipset.

    I am using 2 sticks of 4GB Hyinx RAM and it registers in CPU-Z as 1600, Geekbench also reports my RAM at 1600 as well as many other applications.
     
    electroman0076, Apr 26, 2013
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