Help me find ram upgrade (HP Pavilion 590-p0340ng)

Bishamon · April 4, 2020

Hi guys, I'm not skilled person, but I can upgrade my pc. (My custom built one).

But this pc I bought for game development (https://support.hp.com/bg-en/document/c06094236). Is another story. Can someone help me which ram upgrade will work for me, and which is the best one?

I found some here:

https://geizhals.eu/corsair-vengeance-lpx-black-dimm-kit-16gb-cmk16gx4m2a2400c16-a1351642.html

https://geizhals.eu/crucial-dimm-kit-16gb-ct2k8g4dfs8266-a1746650.html

https://geizhals.eu/kingston-hyperx-fury-rgb-dimm-kit-16gb-hx426c16fb3ak2-16-a2117264.html

https://geizhals.eu/crucial-ballistix-black-dimm-kit-16gb-bl2k8g26c16u4b-a2222463.html

Can you please tell me which ones will work for my PC? Because the site (original hp site says this: Supports up to PC4-21300 (DDR4 2666)), but the rams I want to buy are of this type: PC4-21300U, will it work anyways, and if not, can you please send me link to proper ram?

Thank you, have a nice day!, Bishamon

Alienware 15 R2 · April 4, 2020

The “U” stands for Unbuffered so you don’t have to worry about that.

Hope it all goes well.

toasty99 · April 4, 2020

You can probably hop on eBay and find a 8gb stick of Ddr4 that matches the stick in it and save a bit of money. Or just get that 16gb kit you linked. Up to you.

mariushm · April 4, 2020

The page says the board has 2 memory slots and supports up to 2666 Mhz.

It then also goes to say that it supports up to 8 GB per stick, but further down the page it says 32 GB (using 2 sticks of 16 GB each is possible)... probably a bios update added support for that once 16 GB sticks became a thing (it's recent)

You don't have to limit yourself to 2666 Mhz, you can buy memory sticks that are advertised at higher frequency, and the motherboard will simply configure them at the lower frequency.

In some cases, higher frequency memory sticks can actually be cheaper because they are sold in higher volume and there's higher competition between brands for those frequencies.

Your processor won't benefit from higher frequencies so there's no problem if you stick to 2666 Mhz, and even 2400 Mhz is probably gonna be fine, you wouldn't notice the difference.

The sticks you linked to will all work fine... I'd suggest sticking with the ones that are 1.2v and CL16 or CL17 ... for example, Crucial Ballistix in your link are running at 1.35v which is a sign Crucial took 2400 Mhz rated chips and factory overclocked them to 2666 Mhz and running them at 1.35v ... it works and it's perfectly safe and you have manufacturer warranty, but why bother when you can get sticks with better memory chips capable of working at the default 1.2v

The Corsair LPX would be fine, good price for what you get.

IF you want cheapest, this will also work for you at around 64 euro : https://geizhals.eu/crucial-dimm-kit-16gb-ct2k8g4dfd824a-a1354969.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=eu&hloc=pl&hloc=uk