What is the maximum Ram capacity for Y570?

[nngn]

I bought the machine 2 weeks ago with 8G ram in it.

Does it still have room for memory upgrade or has it reached the limit already?

thanks

[velenoso666]

This site reckons This system can be upgraded to max. 16GB memory. There are 2 memory slots.  but that's news to me.

[nngn]

Thanks for the link, I really hope that's true.

I found another link suggesting 8G is the top density already (hope not)

http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=IdeaPad%20Y570&Cat=RAM

While their statement is a bit confusing

'Maximum Memory: 8GB                       

Slots: 2                        

 Each memory slot can hold DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-12800 with a maximum of 8GB Kit (4GBx2) per slot.*                       

 *Not to exceed manufacturer supported memory.

Has anyone got some offcial info from Lenovo?

[velenoso666]

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-and-Z-series/V570-upgrade-to-16gb-of-ram-successful/m-p/69...

[nngn]

thanks for the link, that is really interesting.

hopefully the moderator can give us his opinion on this.

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

the intel chipset can support 16 gigs of ram, at the time of production only 4 gigs ram module was available commercially, as such the maximum ram was rated at 8 gigs when in actuality 16 gigs is the max when you used 2 x 8 gigs ram modules.