What is RAM and what is it for?

I wanted to ask what RAM is in a laptop / PC, and in which areas it would have an effect if one increased 8RAM to 16 or 32 RAM?

This is the RAM. This is used by the system to temporarily store what is currently being processed. An expansion of the main memory only makes sense if the main memory is being used too much or the computer can no longer use it.

So basically only memory relevance and no performance?

This is the RAM.

It saves what you are doing in the "temporary storage", i.e. In the RAM memory.

So 8 RAM or 16 RAM is a bit small, GB would be better. You have to look at what percentage of the RAM is used, otherwise it makes no sense to upgrade the.

Sure, performance too.

I would have said:

Office, watching videos, light gaming → 8gb

Gaming, light workstation tasks → 16gb

Workstation tasks, rendering, music production with many plugins, gaming + streaming, multitasking, home server → 32GB

So does the ram not only have a memory function but also power?

Yes. Performance in terms of memory bandwidth.

I have 512 GB.

Why is the first thing that comes to mind when I ask this question: The best RAM is the one from Dodge with at least 5.7 liters displacement. An SRT with the V10 from the Viper V would be even better

O_o

Um, think that's your SSD.

Ah ok. Well in any case I want to expand 16GB Ram when my laptop is there. According to Google, the installation should be very easy. Can you confirm that? 8ram out and 16 in shouldn't be that difficult ^^ :)

Yes, it's very simple but!:

How many slots does your laptop have and how many of them can you exchange? You should know that now. There's also soldered RAM, which can't be exchanged.

What do you want to do

It doesn't matter how much% of the RAM is used, the performance is the same at 30% or 80%

This is the 291 euro laptop at MediaMarkt (black friday) coming soon. According to Inet an exchange should be possible ^^

Play a little and twitch, youtube and office.

Do you need 16 GB of RAM for that?

I have to look again later. Believe it has 2 RAM slots one is open (not occupied) and the other is occupied with 8GB and soldered.

With the laptop I just made a mega bargain as thanks I want to feed him Ram. And 16 Gb should be quite good ^^

https://www.mediamarkt.de/...73915.html that was the link to the laptop unfortunately I don't know where to look 😕

No, memory has an impact on performance because processes slow down significantly when it is full. If you need 5GB, and you upgrade from 16 to 32GB, of course you have no performance increase. If you need 5GB, but only have 4, it is worth upgrading to 8GB. At least as long as it is a 64-bit system. Otherwise more than 4GB doesn't make sense.

Pages like curmudgeon or in the specsheet.

I'll just do it.

So what I can tell you is that 2x4GB DDR4 2400 are built in. If a slot is blocked it looks rather bad. If both slots are open the best casd is and you should also get 2x8 gb ddr4 sodimm.

So I have to ask the manufacturer whether these are blocked. Because actually I've heard in the network that an expansion is possible or exchange

No, I'm now on the PC and I can look it up again.

DDR4-2400 SDRAM, 8 GB (2 x 4 GB)

Memory slots: 0

Transfer rates of up to 2400 MT / s

Looks like both of them are curled up. That would be worst case, of course.

RAM: 8GB DDR4-2400 (2x 4GB modules, max.16GB)

I just found that

is at GameStar. Is that a little hope? 😅

https://www.google.de/...364304.amp

As I said, look what's above your post. The manual says:

Memory slots: 0, means for me it is not expandable.

Wait a second.

I have to go into rage mode and say what a crass the hp support is. I have such a neck again. I've seldom seen anything like this bad.

So what just crossed my mind:

It could mean → 0 slots available because soldered or 0 slots available because they are simply occupied. Unfortunately HP says nothing about this. So you have to look when he's there.

Max. But 16GB is a good sign for now, concludes that at least one is expandable.

https://www.otto.de/...Q080WNJS3S

Here again it means that 64 GB is upgradeable and it has been tested. Why HP doesn't give precise details is stupid. Expansion is one more reason to sell ^^

Yes, the point is: you should get yourself a more expensive notebook straight away.

DDR4 sodimm is also much cheaper. I would definitely not get Otto's.

Now it is officially

you can exchange and expand both RAMs.

Ah very good.