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What should I get to upgrade my laptop for cheap?

It currently running

-windows 8

-Intel core I3

-4 gigs of ram

That's all I know of what's in it.

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What should I get to upgrade my laptop for cheap?

It currently running

-windows 8

-Intel core I3

-4 gigs of ram

That's all I know of what's in it.

Ram I guess of just a new laptop
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Ram I guess of just a new laptop

do you know any good buys for ram?

Also since I have a laptop is the ram different than towers?

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do you know any good buys for ram?

Also since I have a laptop is the ram different than towers?

First see what ram you have as in ddr2/3 the open up your system to see how many dimms you have then get some sort of ram that has no heatsink
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First see what ram you have as in ddr2/3 the open up your system to see how many dimms you have then get some sort of ram that has no heatsink

how do I figure that out? Just open it up and look for a sticker or something on the ram or what?
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how do I figure that out? Just open it up and look for a sticker or something on the ram or what?

You migh be able to look at some sort of guid to taking it apart or you could probably just the amount of dimms
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First see what ram you have as in ddr2/3 the open up your system to see how many dimms you have then get some sort of ram that has no heatsink

He has a windows 8 laptop with an i3 i'm 99.99% sure thats ddr3 mate, for starters what do you want to achieve by upgrading your laptop? (playing games, faster processing of tasks, better load/boot times)

Insert ram related question here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1197132-setting-ram-speed-xmp-docp-for-dummies/

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He has a windows 8 laptop with an i3 i'm 99.99% sure thats ddr3 mate, for starters what do you want to achieve by upgrading your laptop? (playing games, faster processing of tasks, better load/boot times)

I'd like to achieve better fps in games, most of the games i play my computer it can handle but i got a couple games like the forest that is normally around 12 fps. I don't want to put a lot of money into this computer so I'd like to keep the upgrades cheap.

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cant really get more frames with laptop, what you have is pretty much it. 

 

you can get more ram, but probably wont make much of a difference, (all i3s are DDR3 BTW)

 

about the only thing you can do is get an SSD, but that won't get you more FPS, but only better Boot/Load times. 

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Honestly unless it's a gaming laptop like an MSI or Asus you're not going to get a lot of mileage out of it. Upgrading your RAM (Which is SODIMM DDR3 btw) might help a bit but that's about all you'll be able to do with it unless it's got upgradeable components (non-soldered CPU, MXM 3.0 A/B style video card). You're better served with spending the money on a real desktop for games, since components to upgrade a laptop; if they're even available are very expensive.

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(playing games, faster processing of tasks, better load/boot times)

yeep
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What should I get to upgrade my laptop for cheap?

It currently running

-windows 8

-Intel core I3

-4 gigs of ram

That's all I know of what's in it.

 

 

just buy a bunch of led strips and put them in cool places makes your computer so much faster

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fast cheap laptop's (upgrades) dont really exist,

 

if you want a cheap gaming pc you can build one with second hand parts for 300 (like in scrapyard wars)

it wont be amazingly fast but for the same monney you WONT get a faster new laptop.

 

and the fps in you games is mostly dependend on your processor wich in your case probably isnt replaceble

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