Question Omen 25L memory recommendation?

[gship]

I have some bad memory, had occasional BSDs, ran the diagnostics and the failure ID indicates a memory problem. The machine has one 16GB Kingston 2933MHz stick.

Should I just replace the stick or add a bit more memory while I am about it? I primarily run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Full spec:

OMEN 25L Desktop PC GT12-0000i (ID 7WM96

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

16GB running Windows 11

 

[Lutfij]

You could try and see if the motherboard on your prebuilt is pending any BIOS updates. What sort of a memory testing tool did you run on your system?

running Windows 11
Did the prebuilt come with Windows 11 or did you upgrade to Windows 11 internally from Windows 10?

 

[gship]

Yes there was a BIOS update when I went to the HP support site -which I installed. The system came with Windows 11 installed. The test I ran was the HP "Fast Memory" test. Ran it three times with got same failure ID each time. The test translates the failure as the memory module, (there's only one - 16GB) for the third test I moved the module from slot#1 to slot #4 just in case slightly different failure ID but the same fault.

 

[Kona45primo]

Do you have any ram timings available in bios? If not don't expect any ram to run at XMP. It'll probably all go to 2400mhz with meh timings by default. Tried to upgrade a friend's 25L with a 9700 and there was no way to enable XMP in bios or Intel software. Only option was HP's overpriced ram.

Hopefully yours isn't as locked down,but I doubt it. I would hit up HP for a warranty exchange if it's erroring stock. It's a frustratingly limited design.

 

[Bob.B]

I have some bad memory, had occasional BSDs, ran the diagnostics and the failure ID indicates a memory problem. The machine has one 16GB Kingston 2933MHz stick.

Should I just replace the stick or add a bit more memory while I am about it? I primarily run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Full spec:

OMEN 25L Desktop PC GT12-0000i (ID 7WM96

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

16GB running Windows 11

I don't know about adding more ram but consider going to a 2x kit to bring the dual channel feature into play.

 

[gship]

Hi all,
Thanks for the input. I went ahead and purchased 2 x 16GB Kingston Fury modules and installed them. Booted up and all looks good, memory is recognized etc. However as predicted Task Manager now reports 2400Mhz compared with 2933Mhz for the old memory. To my surprise when I went into the BIOS the Advanced option was now available (it wasn't before) and it gives me load of overclocking options:

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Sadly I have little idea how to take advantage of these options the only spec on the new memory is:
DDR4 3200MT/s CL16-20-20 1.35v XMP
I am not interested in getting anything spectacular just maybe getting to 3200 instead of 2400, I don't want to overdo things...
Any advice is most welcome
Geoff

 

[gship]

OK after a false start selecting DRAM frequency to 1600 (the machine just beeped and would not boot) I selected the XMP#2 configuration and thay got the speed back to its original 2933Mhz. Both XMP options set DRAM frequency to AUTO. I am going to leave it at this setting.