Upgrade?

[G4md0r]

As little as possible in €

Greece

Gaming mostly some light programming

Laptop with i7 7700hq, 1050 mobile 8gb dual channel the model is HP Omen 

128gb C drive m.2 nvme and 1tb kingston a400 sata 3 ssd

 

I am would like a small upgrade to storage and RAM. The max RAM is 16 as far as I have searched, and I would like to upgrade to a 1tb C drive and with a faster model than the one installed. It can get a full 2280 nvme as far as I know.
The question is: is the RAM worth it since the machine is quite old? I am thinking of upgrading to a full machine in a few years as well. Since both slots are occupied I have to basically throw away the other ones as well. 

[Tetras]

1 minute ago, G4md0r said:

The question is: is the RAM worth it since the machine is quite old? I am thinking of upgrading to a full machine in a few years as well. Since both slots are occupied I have to basically throw away the other ones as well. 

You can check how much you're using with task manager, but just 8GB in 2023 is not good at all. The last time I had 8GB, it was hammering the hard drive 24/7 because of paging out.

 

If you're doing any serious kind of multitasking, I'd expect you to be running out of RAM very quickly and experiencing a lot of choppiness when you're changing windows and opening/closing programs.

 

Gaming, I'd expect you to need to close everything when you game, to avoid slow downs.

[191x7]

Yes, upgrade the RAM. Make sure to get 1Rx8 or 2Rx8 memory, not 1Rx16, the performance difference is huge.

 

Also, feel free to upgrade the storage. Just check if the drive is m.2 sata or m.2 NVME before you put an NVME inside because the m.2 slots can be SATA and not have NVME support.

[G4md0r]

4 minutes ago, Tetras said:

You can check how much you're using with task manager, but just 8GB in 2023 is not good at all. The last time I had 8GB, it was hammering the hard drive 24/7 because of paging out.

 

If you're doing any serious kind of multitasking, I'd expect you to be running out of RAM very quickly and experiencing a lot of choppiness when you're changing windows and opening/closing programs.

 

Gaming, I'd expect you to need to close everything when you game, to avoid slow downs.

Yeah the paging is one of the reasons I want to upgrade. I know that 8gb is not good in 2023. I am not doing serious multitasking just game+video or music running in the background and chrome tabs open etc.

[G4md0r]

6 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Yes, upgrade the RAM. Make sure to get 1Rx8 or 2Rx8 memory, not 1Rx16, the performance difference is huge.

 

Also, feel free to upgrade the storage. Just check if the drive is m.2 sata or m.2 NVME before you put an NVME inside because the m.2 slots can be SATA and not have NVME support.

First of all thanks both for the quick reply. Yeah I will for sure have 2rx8. The storage I am sure that its nvme pci-e 3.0.

[G4md0r]

I think the verdict is get both if money is not an issue and prioritize ram for now. I have had a lot of choppiness when changing/closing tabs and stuff even though the PC as a whole is not weak. I was thinking storage as well since I don't have a lot of empty storage and I can feel my PC slowing down when I have less than 10% remaining space so I am constantly clearing stuff but I am running out of space to put old photos and videos.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, G4md0r said:

I think the verdict is get both if money is not an issue and prioritize ram for now.

Both should be fine, RAM is currently very cheap, as are NVMe SSDs. I got my 1TB MP34 (solid PCIe 3.0 unit with a high TBW rating and 5-year warranty) for ~$50, they're $47 or so currently so slightly cheaper. The 2TB models are technically better $/GB, they are $70-80 usually. 

[G4md0r]

15 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

Both should be fine, RAM is currently very cheap, as are NVMe SSDs. I got my 1TB MP34 (solid PCIe 3.0 unit with a high TBW rating and 5-year warranty) for ~$50, they're $47 or so currently so slightly cheaper. The 2TB models are technically better $/GB, they are $70-80 usually. 

I mean the cheapest RAM that I would trust to buy is like 36€ with a couple of € difference from the cheapest so spending an extra 50€ is not that easy but thanks