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Hey guys,

 

I'm looking for a little advice. I've got an Asus k53s laptop and I"m looking to upgrade my ram. The k53s will allow for a maximum of 8 gigs of ram, with two 4 gig chips. The plan is to upgrade my 4 gigs of ram to 8 gigs. I know how to switch out my ram but the thing I'm not quite sure about is finding the correct ram to do it.

 

Any clue on a good 204 pin set of ram cards to get?

 

 

Thank you

 

 

Hinde

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It can depend on what you use your laptop for, but I find Crucial memory kits provide the best price:performance ratio. Look at these if you just want a simple upgrade; if you are going in to stuff like gaming, encoding, or intense editing, Crucial's Ballistix line is great, too.

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Take current RAM out and see what label says about timings and voltages. Find ram with same specs and you are good to go. With laptops, brand of RAM has even less meaning than with desktops. Hence why I have Corsair in there and not Kingston.

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Hey guys,

I'm looking for a little advice. I've got an Asus k53s laptop and I"m looking to upgrade my ram. The k53s will allow for a maximum of 8 gigs of ram, with two 4 gig chips. The plan is to upgrade my 4 gigs of ram to 8 gigs. I know how to switch out my ram but the thing I'm not quite sure about is finding the correct ram to do it.

Any clue on a good 204 pin set of ram cards to get?

Thank you

Hinde

What speed and latency ram are you running? What processor do you have in there? Me personally, I had to get Corsair Mac ram because my i5 laptop's ram controller refused to work with high density sticks.

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It looks like DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM.

 

If your ram sticks have 4 modules per side, most kits will work fine in your laptop; otherwise, you can try high density modules, but lower density sticks will be more compatible.

Current build: Konata-ROG

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CPU: Intel i7-4790K, 4.4GHz @ 1.2V | Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus VI Impact | Cooler: H80i GT with 2x Silverstone Air Penetrator 120mm | Case: Cooler Master Elite 130| SSD: AData SP550 480GB | HDD: WD Blue 750GB 2.5; WD Blue SSHD 1TB 2.5; WD Red 1TB 3.5 | RAM: Mushkin Redline 2x8GB DDR3-1866 | VGA: Sapphire Dual-X R9 280X | PSU: Silverstone SX600-L

 

Current build: Konata-HTPC

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CPU: AMD FX-6100 (currently at stock) | Mobo: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 | Cooler: Silverstone AR-06 | Case: Silverstone GD10 | SSD: AData SX900 256GB | RAM: ADATA XPG 2X4GB DDR3-1600, Kingston HyperX 2-4GB DDR3-1600 | VGA: MSI HD7950 Twin Frozr III | LG Blu-Ray | PSU: XFX TS 750W

 

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