mixing laptop ram

[Grimley]

OK folks,
I've been asked to 'fix' a crappy HP Pavilion laptop as its running sloooow.

I've opened it up, it only has 1 stick of 4GB samsung Ram. That & a 1TB tosh rusty spinner.

Obvious upgrade is a SSD (There's an M.2 2280 slot so I'll clone the OS onto that, Job done)

My question is, because its samsung Ram out of an approx 3 year old laptop, prices are stupid expensive for new (If I can get it) or its refurbished.

Can I add another make of 4GB ram if the speed & timing are the same?

Thanks

 

[andy_mk3]

For something like that you can chuck pretty much anything you like into it. Whatever RAM config goes in there, it's not going to bottleneck it I've had a 4 & 8GB stick in a laptop for a while that ran absolutely fine.

 

[Grimley]

Thanks. I did have a Samsung laptop that had 3GB of Ram in it (It was sold to me like that brand new) for some strange reason. It turned out that there was 1GB stick & 1 2GB stick, so I ordered a 4GB stick & it worked as 6GB. I thought that would be the case here but I wanted to check.