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Dell Inspiron 7779 maximum RAM?
I have successfully upgraded my Inspiron 7778 to 32GB RAM with no problems. Is the same upgrade possible for the 7779?
The reason I ask is that the sales rep on live chat told me the i7 version which has 16GB, is single channel and the machine only has one RAM slot on the mainboard. This seems unlikely to me but I thought it was worth asking the question.
contempathy
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May 8th, 2017 17:00
2 Memory Slots in the 7779
I just received and installed an additional 16GB in my 7779...no issues at all!
Item No A9168727
Dist SKU SNP821PJ/16GX1
MFG PN SNP821PJC/16G
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November 17th, 2016 21:00
Hi Techtomic
Thanks for writing to us.
The system can support to a max of 16GB RAM. Though we have seen few of our customer trying beyond the max limited suggested/tested by Dell, for few it did work but for few it was little to no luck.
Do provide us the system tag# and also confirm the name the system is registered under. Let us know the contact number and email address.
Regards
Saltgrass
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November 21st, 2016 16:00
The 7779 does have single channel memory.. which did surprise me initially. They are probably the same machine, just different options.
Techtomic
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December 8th, 2016 07:00
From the invoice on my 7779 which arrived today:
370-ACSB 16GB, 2400MHz, DDR4; up to 32GB (additional memory sold separately)
So it looks as though Dell does support 32GB to some extent.
One thing I've noticed is the BIOS shows the memory only running at 2133MHz, any ideas on the discrepancy?
bravroc
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May 9th, 2017 12:00
Where did you purchase the memory from?
contempathy
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May 13th, 2017 21:00
From Dell. First I couldnt get a sales rep in the Dell chat to sell me one because "your system only supports 16GB". I did some research and it took some digging but I came up with the SKU above. Searched for it. Found it. Bought it. :-)