I read that the BIOS on the HP machines are locked down and don’t allow a lot of control, including hard locking the RAM speeds to 2400MHz, regardless what is in them. I was considering getting the Envy x360 15z with a Ryzen 7 3700U, then replacing the memory with 16GB of 3200MHz RAM from Crucial (or more from another vendor). Are the RAM speeds locked on these models?
Posted May 31, 2019, 11:55 PM UTC
HP typically doesn't expose any sort of memory speed controls in their bios. So, whatever speed it ships with will likely be the max speed they support.
I have the current 2700u 15 2-in-1 (15m-cp0012dx) and I've been able to upgrade to 32gb of RAM, but only at 2400mhz.
That’s what I was expecting. Lenovo’s new T495 was supposed to support 2666MHz, but they don’t have the customizable options yet to get it above 2400.
Where did you get the memory from/what model? The ones from Crucial’s site only went to 16GB, as that’s the supported amount from HP.
I bought a set of corsair vengeance 2x16gb: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G26166W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Semi-related: Shouldn't have gone to see the price, only $150! I paid $215 6 months ago.
Huh?
I had read that the BIOS’s had locked the memory speeds to a max of 2400MHz, so tossing in faster memory (to help with Infinity Fabric performance) wouldn’t do anything.