▷ How to expand ram memory?

If you are thinking of spending a few euros to upgrade your PC, you are probably wondering what to upgrade to get the most out of the investment. In most cases, except for adding a solid state drive, adding more RAM will do more to speed up your computer than any other upgrade you can do. This is because Microsoft Windows and many of the most popular applications running on it are resource-eaters, especially RAM. How to expand RAM.

We explain how to expand the RAM of your PC

If you run two or three applications simultaneously, they must dance around each other, as Windows constantly exchanges some of its code and data between RAM and the hard drive, often crashing the PC to the rhythm of a snail. Adding more RAM means less data exchange with the hard drive, and therefore faster system performance. Luckily adding RAM is one of the fastest and easiest upgrades that can be done. In fact, it is so easy that virtually anyone can do it. That being said, there are a few things you should consider before buying more RAM for your PC.

Make sure you buy the correct type of memory cards. Most newer PCs use DDR4 RAM modules. If your system is old enough to use DDR3, DDR2, or even raw DDR RAM, there probably would be no point in paying for the upgrade. A quick way to find out what type of RAM your PC uses is to type the model number along with the word "RAM" on Google and visit a couple of sites until you find the information. Another very simple way is to use the CPU-Z application.

You can also find out the type of RAM on your PC by looking directly at the installed modules, this way you can also check how many memory slots your motherboard has. The RAM slots are very characteristic, you have no option to go wrong when identifying them.

You will also need to know the maximum amount of memory that your PC supports. In general, for each memory slot on the motherboard, up to 16 GB is supported, so if it has 4 slots, you can mount up to 64 GB. The easiest way not to be mistaken is to check your motherboard information on the manufacturer's website.

If your PC doesn't have empty slots available, you'll have to remove a couple of the existing RAM modules and replace them with new ones, so be sure to keep that in mind when deciding how much RAM you want to buy. For example, if your PC currently has 4GB of RAM installed as two 2GB modules and there are no more empty slots, you will need to purchase two 8GB modules and place them where the old ones were to increase the amount to 8GB.

However, if your PC has two free slots for a total of 4 GB, you can add two new 2 GB modules to add up to a total of 8 GB occupying all the slots. You can also replace the existing modules with two 4 GB, to add a total of 8 GB and leave two slots free for future extensions, you decide.

Always buy RAM with the same specifications as existing modules. Mixing RAM modules with different memory specifications often causes problems with system stability. Of course, if you are going to remove the existing modules and leave only the new ones, this point does not affect you.

In the event that you want to expand the RAM of a laptop, you should check on the internet how you can access the memory slots of your model, since there is no design standard and each manufacturer uses a different one. In the case of laptops it can be somewhat more complicated to expand the RAM, although not too much.

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This ends our article on how to expand RAM, we hope it has been useful to make your PC run faster. You can leave a comment if you have any questions about it.