I ordered a w530 yesterday with standard memory. I'd like to remove the standard memory and install (2) 8GB sticks. I've seen a little traffic where people put the HyperX Predator memory with 1866MHz chips in and the w530 autodetected and ran at 1866MHz. Can anyone confirm? Which specific HyperX Predator was used?
tnx,
Gene
Update:
I'm seeing traffic that the Chinese Lenovo will throttle the memory back to 1333MHz if we allow bios? There was a major cat fight on forums.lenovo.com back in may. If this is still true, I'm cancelling my order.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-Th ... rue#M30797
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-Th ... rue#M27663
From forum.lenovo.com
The throttling to 1333Mhz is done by the W520, not the W530. The W530 officially supports 1600Mhz memory but not 1866Mhz memory, so it's possible that it could throttle the memory to 1600Mhz. My installed 1600Mhz Corsair Vengeance memory works fine.
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