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So I have Asus G551JW and it has 8gb RAM. I do lots of things at the same time with this, play music, talk with someone in curse or skype, surf on internet  and usually I photoshop, edit video or play games. And yes, sometimes i run out of RAM.

 

I did some reshearch adn found out that this Asus has one free RAM slot. So why the heck not to upgrade it to 16gb? Only problem here is that I don't know what ram i shoul get. I dont even know do I have to buy 2 RAM sticks or can I just get one and be fine. So this is the part where help for the noob would be nice.

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Corsair Vengeance is pretty solid just like Kingston Hyper X. If you only have two ram slots I would buy two from the same manufacturer.

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if that's a laptop you need to make sure to get laptop RAM. just get another single 8GB stick

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Try to get another 8gb ram stick that matched the voltage, speed, and timings of the one that's already installed so that you have lower chances of running into compatibility issues. Don't worry about brands too much, those specs are more important and all RAM is made by like 1-2 OEMs, with other brands just slapping their sticker on them.

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So I have Asus G551JW and it has 8gb RAM. I do lots of things at the same time with this, play music, talk with someone in curse or skype, surf on internet  and usually I photoshop, edit video or play games. And yes, sometimes i run out of RAM.

 

I did some reshearch adn found out that this Asus has one free RAM slot. So why the heck not to upgrade it to 16gb? Only problem here is that I don't know what ram i shoul get. I dont even know do I have to buy 2 RAM sticks or can I just get one and be fine. So this is the part where help for the noob would be nice.

just get another 8gb ram stick and you'll be good to go. Just keep one thing in mind, you should get a same ram stick as the previous one (by same ram stick I mean same freq and same capacity) otherwise you won't be getting the best performance...
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