Upgrading an HP Pavllion DV6-1355dx

[Menegroth1]

Hello there,
I need to upgrade this laptop's components to something more modern.
However after reading the user guide, i've seen that it can upgrade to 8GB of DDR2. Yet in the market i've found a CRUCIAL dual channel set that is DDR3 and the manufacturer sais that it is specifically for this laptop. Should i trust that this will work on ny laptop? The link to the memory is below:
http://eu.crucial.com/eur/en/pavilion-dv6-1355dx/CT5306575


Also, I want to upgrade the hard drive to 128 SSD drive. Although the user guide does not specify anything higher than a 500GB 7200rpm disc, would it be ok to use an SSD?
Thank you for your time.

 

[thx1138v2]

A DDR3 SODIMM in not going to fit into a DDR2 socket. The HP specs say it is DDR3 so that may not be an issue. You should double check that the RAM installed currently is DDR3.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01893242
http://www.bixnet.com/whlanosome.html

The older machines may not recognize an SSD and I'm pretty sure that even if it is recognized as a drive there won't be an option to boot the machine from it.

 

[hang-the-9]

You can use an SSD in the system with no issues, it's just a standard SATA interface connected to faster storage. I have used SSD drives in some 10 year old laptops with no issues.

The laptop uses DDR3 not 2, you may have seen this note about it having "2 DIMM" "4096MB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)"

The other thing to think about is the cost of the upgrades. You can find a full used working laptop that is a lot newer for not much more than $100. An early Core i3 or Core i5 laptop would be a lot faster than this Core 2 Duo one so you may want to look at that instead of upgrading yours.