Laptop Ram

[Kenzoteke]

Hello everyone!

 

I'm new here so if this topic isn't correct or annything I'm sorry!

 

So my problem:

I'm a student system ICT in Belgium.

I have a course with a lot of virtualization involved. I can run 2 windows machines on my laptop with no problem. But when I want to run an extra linux machine or a windows or whatever it al freezes because my ram is full.

Now the question:

I have an Asus k555 laptop, he has a total of 8GB of ram, i would like to add more but the problem is there is only one removable ram stick. It looks like the other 4GB is soldered directly on the motherboard.

Can i just replace the 4GB stick with a 8GB or 16GB stick or is this going to create problems with the ram already on the board?

[Doramius]

From the specs of machine, it looks like you can add an 8GB stick and have 12GB.  However, the overall chipset and BUS seem to indicate being able to handle a 16GB stick.  There may be an internal limitation, but I cannot be certain.  I would recommend just the 8GB, but you can try the 16GB and see if it works.

[manikyath]

beyond what @Doramius said, i'd like to mention that if you're on a budget this is a place worth checking out every so often, they usually have pretty good deals on ram sticks: (except for today... )

https://www.alternate.be/Outlet/Hardware/Geheugen

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i'd also like to toss this idea in:

a few years ago i was in the same place as you, but with a 6GB ram laptop, and outrageous prices for laptop ram.

my solution was to do the virtualization on my desktop at home, which had plenty of ram and cpu horsepower (and a propper connection to download updates as opposed to school network BS...)

and whenever i needed access to my VMs i just teamviewered out to home.

[Kenzoteke]

30 minutes ago, Doramius said:

From the specs of machine, it looks like you can add an 8GB stick and have 12GB.  However, the overall chipset and BUS seem to indicate being able to handle a 16GB stick.  There may be an internal limitation, but I cannot be certain.  I would recommend just the 8GB, but you can try the 16GB and see if it works.

Thanks! I'm going to try the 8GB stick.

I will let you know how it went!

[Kenzoteke]

6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

beyond what @Doramius said, i'd like to mention that if you're on a budget this is a place worth checking out every so often, they usually have pretty good deals on ram sticks: (except for today... )

https://www.alternate.be/Outlet/Hardware/Geheugen

--

i'd also like to toss this idea in:

a few years ago i was in the same place as you, but with a 6GB ram laptop, and outrageous prices for laptop ram.

my solution was to do the virtualization on my desktop at home, which had plenty of ram and cpu horsepower (and a propper connection to download updates as opposed to school network BS...)

and whenever i needed access to my VMs i just teamviewered out to home.

Thanks for the tip!

And about the desktop idea, i don't have a desktop so that would not work for me.

But thanks anyway!?