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Go to SolutionI upgraded to an e6530 and I was able to swap out the two 4gb memory modules with two 8gb memory modules.
Everything is working great and I hadn't noticed any decrease in battery. I do run in max performance mode all the time and my battery has lasted as long as 3 hours. Usually, i'll get 40% battery drop after an hour of heavy use (running multiple vm and developing code).Dell-Deepak Sin
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Posted June 4th, 2012 15:00
Hi xojins
Welcome to the Community
Your Computer has 2 memory slots and it can accommodate maximum of 8GB of memory.
For any upgrade compatibility issue you can refer to the below link.
Parts and Upgrade: - accessories.us.dell.com/.../DellPartsFamily.aspx
Thank You!
thetacobear
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Posted September 26th, 2012 12:00
Did you have to adjust any other settings?
thetacobear
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Posted September 27th, 2012 08:00
I have the EXACT same machine as yours, so I'm assuming that I do what you did.
To found what is the maximum memory that your machine can support check your CPU version
in my case i have a intel i7-2720QM, Dell say that my E6520 support a maximum of 8 GB but intel say that with this CPU it can support a amount of 32 GB
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Posted December 10th, 2012 12:00
Did anyone else besides xojins have success with this?
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Posted June 4th, 2012 15:00
Although unsupported the part is available on crucial here.
Sometimes you can put more memory in than Dell state as maximum, I have put 4 GB in an older laptop that stated 2 GB was the maximum and could use 3.25 GB fine.
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