Upgrade laptop over the approved RAM upgrade memory?

I would like to upgrade my older laptop (Acer 5742g) with more RAM (ex works it has 4GB, I have already upgraded it with a second unit of 4GB RAM). Can I put 2 8GB RAM (in total 16GB) in the 2 slots? The manufacturer specifies a maximum upgrade of 8GB in total. Sorry for the long and confusing question.

Usually not, the mainboard determines how much RAM it can handle. The best thing is to find out which one is installed in the laptop and look at the specifications. If the same specification is there, more RAM will also be of no use.

Do you have a 64-bit operating system?

Yes

Why do you think you need more than 8 GB on a 9 year old computer? The bottleneck is probably somewhere else. Does the box have an SSD?

Hi

What the manufacturer says is true in the case. The Acer Aspire 5724G Series notebook was equipped with the first generation Intel Core i3 or I5 mobile processors. These processors only support up to 8GB DDR3-800 / 1066 dual-channel RAM. The following processors were installed in this notebook:

https://ark.intel.com/...0-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/...3-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/...0-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/...3-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/...6-ghz.html

One of these processors should be in your notebook. And this is only possible up to 8GB DDR3-800 / 1066. So nothing with 16GB on the notebook. However, hardly more than 8GB RAM will be necessary on this notebook, because this device is only suitable for office, multimedia, Internet and a few older, not so performance-hungry, games. All software for which 8GB of RAM is actually sufficient.

It also depends on the processor. The mainboard can't support more memory than the processor can manage. First generation Intel Core i3 / i5 mobile CPUs only support up to 8GB DDR3-800 / 1066 dual-channel RAM. And there's such a processor in this notebook.

You are absolutely right!

You could try to unscrew the processor and solder a 34th address line for the RAM to the memory controller. Then the processor could also address 16GB. ; )

Thank you for the effort

Because I have no desire to spend a lot of money on a new one, but I will apparently get around vain

Had already given more difficult answers, but please, again and again.

If you do photo editing or video editing, 16 GB makes sense. More than 8 GB doesn't make sense for office work because you won't notice a difference.