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Yes, you're good to go. The HM77 chipset does support 16GB of RAM, but notebooks usually have just two slots of RAM. So if you're buying the laptop with a 2x4GB configuration, you would have to replace both RAM modules with a 2x8 kit to up your total RAM capacity. On the other hand, if you're...

Try reseating the RAM modules if you can access them. That same problem has happened to a few friends of mine, and reseating the RAM modules did the trick (it was a pain in the *ss before we knew RAM was the problem, since a lot of notebook motherboards don't POST when the RAM modules aren't...

Nope, that will not run on triple channel. The only chipset that supported triple channel memory was X58, and that's a desktop part released ~4 years ago. It just means it has three RAM slots, but AFAIK it will run on some kind of hybrid dual channel (dual channel for the first 16GB, and then...

In current Intel microprocessors, decreasing the max proc speed in the Power Options from 100% to 99% in Windows actually deactivates the Turbo Boost (if available). I'm not sure about your processor, as it is a ULV Core 2 Duo (accdg to Google), but I have read somewhere that Core 2 Duo's had a...