Upgrade my RAM

H0R53 · February 27, 2017

According to Intel's datasheet my Chromebook supports 8GB of RAM. Unfortunately the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard, and I think that the RAM, the SSD and the ROM are all on the same chip for some reason. It has 1.9GB of RAM, and 14GB of SSD, which is why I think the RAM and ROM are on the same chip. I took the Chromebook apart and there are other slots to solder more RAM onto it, so how difficult would that be to do?

VVoltor · February 27, 2017

Difficult. Very.

No offence, but the fact that you have to ask makes me think you probably don't have the necessary equipment or experience.

RadiatingLight · February 27, 2017

It's a SOC (System On Chip)

Same thing used on phones to save space.

it might not support that extra RAM, and it's probably pretty hard unless you can make sure that each contact on the RAM connects with no interference with the other contacts.

H0R53 · February 28, 2017

4 hours ago, VVoltor said:

Difficult. Very.

No offence, but the fact that you have to ask makes me think you probably don't have the necessary equipment or experience.

I've reballed a GPU once with help. You're right, it's hard. Took three days, even with the machines built for reballing.

there's a touch model of this chromebook with 4GB of RAM so I think they used the same system board, there's a few empty contacts where I think a touch screen may be fitted. It's an Acer CB3-131.

Carbongrip · February 28, 2017

Um, it's a Chromebook... why would you need more ram?

With that said, if its soldered on then it's not possible regardless of the intel spec sheet which is for the CPU/Chipset supported Max NOT a machine max.

H0R53 · February 28, 2017

Why do I need more RAM? Because I'm running Windows 10 on it and games like Minecraft need much more RAM than it has. Do the games run? Yeah. Could I benefit from more than 2GB of RAM? Yes.

Carbongrip · March 5, 2017

On ‎28‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 5:12 AM, H0R53 said:

Why do I need more RAM? Because I'm running Windows 10 on it and games like Minecraft need much more RAM than it has. Do the games run? Yeah. Could I benefit from more than 2GB of RAM? Yes.

You bought the wrong device then if you wanted to use Windows 10. Chromebooks are designed to run Chrome OS and that only. 2GB of RAM is hardly enough to run Windows 10 and a web browser let alone Minecraft.

It's like buying an iPad to run Windows 10... not its purpose.