Help Upgrading RAM in laptop.

[HeyPleaseDie]

I recently received a laptop, an HP g60-231wm, and I'm wanting to upgrade the ram. It currently has 3gb of RAM (1 x 1gb + 1 x 2gb).

Max supported size is 4gb.
RAM type: is DDR2 SDRAM.
Form: SO-DIMM 200-pin.

I have found some RAM that I think will be perfect but the RAM is dual channel.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231156
I'm not sure if my laptop will support dual channel RAM. I haven't been able to find anything that says it does or not. Any help will be welcome.

 

[voltoid27]

Dual channel just means that the memory controller in your CPU is capable of using 2 sticks of RAM together to leverage their combined bandwidth, and yes, your system is capable of benefiting from it. You won't encounter any problems with that kit of RAM, although the memory controller will downclock it to DDR2-667 due to the weaker memory controller in your processor, but that's not a huge issue. Go for it!

PS: If you want to beef up the CPU, you can pop a Turion X2 Ultra ZM-87 or ZM-88 in there for extra performance, and those models utilize the full bandwidth of DDR2-800 RAM. I put a ZM-87 in my cousin's HP dv6 laptop and it works great, albeit a little hot. Also, Kingston made some really speedy RAM back in the day with a model number of KHX6400S2ULK2/4G, although I couldn't find any in the quick search I did. If outright performance is a priority for you, that RAM's the stuff to get.

 

[HeyPleaseDie]

Dual channel just means that the memory controller in your CPU is capable of using 2 sticks of RAM together to leverage their combined bandwidth, and yes, your system is capable of benefiting from it. You won't encounter any problems with that kit of RAM, although the memory controller will downclock it to DDR2-667 due to the weaker memory controller in your processor, but that's not a huge issue. Go for it!

PS: If you want to beef up the CPU, you can pop a Turion X2 Ultra ZM-87 or ZM-88 in there for extra performance, and those models utilize the full bandwidth of DDR2-800 RAM. I put a ZM-87 in my cousin's HP dv6 laptop and it works great, albeit a little hot. Also, Kingston made some really speedy RAM back in the day with a model number of KHX6400S2ULK2/4G, although I couldn't find any in the quick search I did. If outright performance is a priority for you, that RAM's the stuff to get.

I didn't think it was possible to upgrade the CPU. How would I go about doing this?

 

[voltoid27]

In my experience, you have to take apart a bunch of stuff in your laptop to get to the actual CPU cooler, then you remove the cooler and the CPU is exposed. You then remove it and put the new one in. You have to clean off the thermal paste that'll be stuck to the heatsink, then apply new paste to the top of the new CPU and put everything back together. That's simplifying a lot of stuff, but that's the general procedure. If you want to look further into it, YouTube is a great resource for finding out how to get to the CPU.