You need to contact Dell sales to get the Dell Kingston HyperX Fury sticks for your PC, if available, and provide your service tag so they can find the right part number.
1. Search on this forum and you will lots of posts about R11 owners adding more RAM from aftermarket sellers (folks usually buy from Amazon, Crucial or Newegg but there are lots of sellers of RAM sticks). Dell is very overpriced and you don't need to buy RAM from them.
2. Don't mix and match RAM sticks. That means that if you want to go from 32Gb to 64Gb, you either need to get the exact same RAM directly from Dell that you already have (where it's overpriced) and just add more if you have the open slots in your R11, or you can replace all of the current RAM sticks with new after-market RAM sticks from a few different RAM makers that are known to work well with the R11. The posts on here have make and model numbers so you can get the right kind.
3. I upgraded my R11 from 32GB (stock from Dell in 2 sticks of 16gb each), to 64gb (4 brand new aftermarket sticks at 16gb each). Search for posts by me and I put the model # of the ram in my post, bought it from amazon, plugged right in and had no problems at all, not even any Bios setting changes to deal with.
4. R11's (and R10/R12 for that matter) are picky on which RAM you get so make sure to buy specifications that are known to work with the motherboard and Bios for the R11 (speed, CL, # of sticks). The posts here and on reddit have lots of folks who put the model numbers of the RAM in their posts, but you can also go to Crucial.com and use their website tool to lookup the R11 and they guarantee it will work. I did that and then ended up getting their Crucial Ballistic model ram, 3200mhz speed, and very good CL ratings (a measure of latency or how fast the memory works, better than the stock Dell sticks CL ratings). Also, the Service Manual for the R11 from Dell has a section that shows the configurations that Dell has tested (# sticks, for example if you want 64gb is that 4 sticks at 16gb each, or can you get 2 sticks of 32gb each, I did the 4x16 and don't recall if the manual said you could also do 2x32)
You can buy RAM from Dell if you want, it's more expensive than aftermarket but folks do that as well.
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You need to contact Dell sales to get the Dell Kingston HyperX Fury sticks for your PC, if available, and provide your service tag so they can find the right part number.
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May 10th, 2021 07:00
A few suggestions for you:
1. Search on this forum and you will lots of posts about R11 owners adding more RAM from aftermarket sellers (folks usually buy from Amazon, Crucial or Newegg but there are lots of sellers of RAM sticks). Dell is very overpriced and you don't need to buy RAM from them.
2. Don't mix and match RAM sticks. That means that if you want to go from 32Gb to 64Gb, you either need to get the exact same RAM directly from Dell that you already have (where it's overpriced) and just add more if you have the open slots in your R11, or you can replace all of the current RAM sticks with new after-market RAM sticks from a few different RAM makers that are known to work well with the R11. The posts on here have make and model numbers so you can get the right kind.
3. I upgraded my R11 from 32GB (stock from Dell in 2 sticks of 16gb each), to 64gb (4 brand new aftermarket sticks at 16gb each). Search for posts by me and I put the model # of the ram in my post, bought it from amazon, plugged right in and had no problems at all, not even any Bios setting changes to deal with.
4. R11's (and R10/R12 for that matter) are picky on which RAM you get so make sure to buy specifications that are known to work with the motherboard and Bios for the R11 (speed, CL, # of sticks). The posts here and on reddit have lots of folks who put the model numbers of the RAM in their posts, but you can also go to Crucial.com and use their website tool to lookup the R11 and they guarantee it will work. I did that and then ended up getting their Crucial Ballistic model ram, 3200mhz speed, and very good CL ratings (a measure of latency or how fast the memory works, better than the stock Dell sticks CL ratings). Also, the Service Manual for the R11 from Dell has a section that shows the configurations that Dell has tested (# sticks, for example if you want 64gb is that 4 sticks at 16gb each, or can you get 2 sticks of 32gb each, I did the 4x16 and don't recall if the manual said you could also do 2x32)
You can buy RAM from Dell if you want, it's more expensive than aftermarket but folks do that as well.