I have a bad laptop that I want to upgrade. Do I have to pay attention (expand) to the graphics card if I expand Ram?
I would look at first if you can upgrade your laptop.
There are laptops that do this without problems, but not for many.
Generally no, you can retrofit so much ram and do not have to replace your graphics card which work separately.
Yes I can. I will upgrade my pc to 32GB.
If the laptop is bad, more ram will not automatically make it better. If the processor and the graphics card are slow, you can't get much out of it because you can't really replace them with laptops.
So maybe not upgrade to 32 GB Ram right away, you don't need it anyway.
You have to check whether you can allocate more memory to your graphics card in the BIOS.
I also have 32GB in a tower PC and can confirm that they are never 100% busy. In Ark Survival Evoled I managed to get 28 GB. Otherwise I know of no situation where 32GB would be required.
Sure, especially not with a laptop, since the CPU is probably limited anyway in programs that need so much RAM anyway. 32 GB or more actually only makes sense for professional applications.
Allocate which memory and where in the BIOS? That would interest me.
Since only the memory chip is installed in the laptop, it has no memory. Therefore, you assign it a certain share of the RAM. Usually there were 3 values, depending on the RAM installed.
Similar to a motherboard in a PC with graphics on board, to which RAM can also be assigned.
Ahh ok, if a graphics card is connected externally via PCIe it doesn't matter or?
Yes, because then the graphics card on board is switched off.
