Motherboard Upgrade - Help? (See bottom comment)

[NJD]

As title suggests maximum ram my motherboard can hold?

HP - M2N68-LA (Narra 6)
Manual: https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c01925534

OS - Windows 7 Professional x64

Current Ram - 3GB Total = 1x2GB, 1x1GB (as far as I'm aware PC ram runs with the "weakest chain in the link method" ie; my pc is only running as fast as the 1GB stick allows it to, so as you can imagine being a few years old it's a little outdated and on the slower side in terms of performance with basic games, photoshop, rendering videos in sony vegas etc).

I've found RAM that ebuyer sells 8GB = 2x4GB that meets all the requirements on the motherboard specs (NON-ECC, Unbufferd etc) but don't want to purchase if it turns out to be overkill and the motherboard can only handle 4GB.

RAM - https://www.ebuyer.com/274336-corsair-8gb-ddr3-1333mhz-memory-cmv8gx3m2a1333c9

So in summary, the pc spec sheet confuses me and doesn't tell me the max ram on x64 systems, ideas?

[NJD]

Update - Solved.

Downloaded CPU-Z, found actual motherboard, googled spec sheet.

Result = 4GB Max.

Poor basic budget micro-atx motherboard is basic

[chris-red]

Crucial have a web tool that tells you what you can fit too.
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[GetawayDj]

Was looking at upgrades on my current pc too but came to the same conclusion as yourself....Do a new build.

Thinking so far

Motherboard - ASUS H97 PRO GAMER
CPU - i5-4570 (seeing if they'll do a deal for something bigger)
RAM - 8gb Corsair Vengeance
GPU - R9 290x in June when the new cards come out so the 290/290x should go cheaper
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[GetawayDj]

Already use that site, pretty good to have access to.

I can get parts cheaper than most paces as I live near a warehouse shop that sell them all, Aria. Its about 10 minutes away from me.
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[RhynoCZ]

I might be late, but I recommend you to get a new MB. The fact that the PCB has space for 4 RAM slots and it's got only 2 should tell you how cheap the MB actually was.

An alright MB is about 50 pounds, and you already own the rest.
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[UncleFester]

Short answer is sort of / sometimes.

Long answer is - it depends on what HDD controller / chipset your old board had.

Chances are, if it was an INTEL based chipset and the new one is ... and you were running in SATA non raid mode .... you *might* get lucky.

Anything else is blind luck and if it works, great. I'd prepare yourself for a reinstall at worst

Long as the cards etc are the same board connectors, physically you should be fine as long as you didn't buy a full size ATX board for a baby ATX case .......
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[UncleFester]

New chipset looks like an Nforce one ... so same manufacturer ... you *might* get lucky.

remember - if you boot it and it fails with a bluescreen - you do NOT want to format that drive to set it up from scratch unless you have backups of your stuff.

At that point i'd buy a new 256Gb SSD and set windows up from new.

Comes down to budget / skill / time i suppose.
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[UncleFester]

Ok - the numbnuts way around this is as follows.

If you can get all your data off beforehand - then do that and set windows up from scratch.

The issue you are going to have is that you may not have a Windows OEM DVD that goes with the OEM serial number you had on the original machine.

You lose nothing by seeing if it boots .... but take the backup so that if worst comes to the worst, you just reinstall.
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