Question Pegatron Corp 2ACE Motherboard/HP Envy 810 PC will it take DDR4 RAM?

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Trying to do some minor upgrades to my HP Envy Phoenix 810 PC. Its currently running 16 GB RAM consisting of 2 sticks of 8GB DDR3. Speccy indicates the motherboard is a Pagatron Corp 2ACE and the board has 1P1W8-P8 stamped on it. I'm also running an older Nvidia GTX 770 graphics card in it. I'm wondering about upgrading to 32 GB DDR4 RAM and putting in a GTX 1660 6GB card, but I'm not sure the system can accept the DDR RAM upgrade. Any help is appreciated.

My Specs:
OS: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
CPU: Intel i7 4820K @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 16 GB 2x Samsung 8GB 2Rx8 PC3 (M378B1G73DBO-CKO)
Motherboard: Pagatron Corp 2ACE
GPU: Nvidia 2GB GeForce GTX 770
Storage: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB (SATA (SSD))
 
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Pegatron Corp 2ACE Motherboard/HP Envy 810 PC will it take DDR4 RAM?
It supports DDR3 only.

DDR4 is physically different from DDR3. DDR4 can not be inserted into DDR3 ram slot.

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Thanks :)

I can upgrade the RAM (4 slots) to 32GB for around $50, would upgrading to 64GB be overkill for this machine? I mainly stream movies and my gaming is mostly Elder Scrolls (Skyrim and Oblivion), Civilization, and Warhammer 40K. My disabilities keep me away from the FPS games so I don't really need a maxed out gaming machine.
 
Thanks :)

I can upgrade the RAM (4 slots) to 32GB for around $50, would upgrading to 64GB be overkill for this machine? I mainly stream movies and my gaming is mostly Elder Scrolls (Skyrim and Oblivion), Civilization, and Warhammer 40K. My disabilities keep me away from the FPS games so I don't really need a maxed out gaming machine.
I can't see any real benefit to 64 GB without any workstation use. And if you don't need it, it seems silly to spend that much on RAM that's now two generations old.

Keep in mind that RAM doesn't mix and match perfectly, so you may need a whole packaged kit of the RAM amount you want rather than adding RAM. With new RAM, its easier to return; with such old RAM it's a gamble.
 
Thanks again. I also found some info on HP's site that indicates that there is a 32GB max with the 64 bit OS (even less for 32 bit OS). I think that answers my questions, now just to finish pricing out the memory and the GPU. Nothing like giving an almost 10 year old computer a facelift.