said by markofmayhem:said by JohnInSJ:said by dave:Sure, mechanically it's easy, but his point about the chipset is still valid.
But still hardly rocket science for ram upgrades
Think further back, JohnInSJ
, way back, when restrictions instead of installation hurdles existed... when Compaq's only had one socket, or HP's could only use single density, or some crappy northbridge link was maxed at 512MB per stick, then 1GB, etc.
Not so much an issue today, really. Even the base line Acer, Dell, and Lenovo's seem to take 4GB sticks x 2. Although, when 8GB becomes "you need more RAM" then we can add these to the list as well.
I can think all the way back to installing individual ram chips in sockets. When 8KB was a massive upgrade to an S100 bus CP/M machine.
Yeah. Way way back. Good times. Anyway, today (where today started sometime in 2007-9) you can replace a laptop for less than a ram upgrade would have cost you 5 years ago. Your option is to buy a new machine if your old machine isn't upgradable.
The OP has a high end machine which isn't old at all...
HP Z200 Workstation:
Memory Type Supported DDR3, UDIMM (Unbuffered), ECC and nECC
Memory Expansion Slots 4 DDR3 memory slots
Maximum Memory 16GB
takes PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 nECC Registered DIMMs
wants: same ram in each slot
upgrade: 4 identical PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 nECC Registered DIMMs
Over at Crucial.com, a pair of 8GB upgrades (two each) would be $82 and max you out.
That took 3 minutes to figure out via google.
Not rocket science.