Question for Laptop Upgrade

[panayiotis]

Hi, my friend has an ACER 5750g Laptop with specs:

CPU:Intel Core i5-2430M

RAM:4GB

HDD:500GB

GPU:GT520M

OS:Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

and he was wondering if its possible to upgrade the ram from 4fb to 16gb on this laptop, the cpu can recognise 16gb but ACER says 8GB max. The upgrade would be two dims of 8gb ram ddr3 1333mhz.

Thank you for your time guys.

[WAFFLETIME]

If acer says 8gb max then its 8gb max it means the motherboard in that laptop only supports 8gb's of ram the same way my motherboard only supports 32

also find out the max mhz of ram you can put in his system and go from there.

[panayiotis]

yeah i knew that but the thing is i have an hp netbook and i upgraded it to 4gb ram when hp said maximum 2gb, so i suppose its gonna happen the same???

[soja]

I trust crucial when it comes to stuff like this: http://www.crucial.com/upgrade/Acer-memory/Aspire+Notebooks/Aspire+5750g-upgrades.html

I wouldn't recommend a 16GB kit, there is a chance you will waste your money and go through the hassle of shipping memory back if you didn't buy it in a store.

[Kirrr]

Acer says the max is 8gig, because they sell it with that amount. i5's can work with 16gig with no problem.

[panayiotis]

Acer says the max is 8gig, because they sell it with that amount. i5's can work with 16gig with no problem.

That's what i thought!

[27-bit]

why not adding an SSD!

[WiRoZ]

I don't know what your friend is going to do with that laptop, but generally speaking 8GB is more than enough for normal use. Like e_shocksh said, throwing a proper SSD in it will make the laptop perform much better then an extra 12 GB of RAM

[Metallurgico]

Adding an SSD is way better than buy more RAM

[oddsmurf]

I dont think you are able to use more than 8 GB off ram on that laptop whitout the CPU becoming a bottleneck.

A SSD woud probably help him alot more.

[MuZeVII]

I would also recommend an SSD for that system if HDD space is not important. 4GB of RAM is very rarely a bottleneck in regular usage scenarios. Remember that more RAM does not mean more speed, you just need enough of it to cover your usage; excess is wasted.

[Helepolis]

Another vote for SSD!

[bosnian_guy]

Hey guys this is my first post on the Linus Tech Tips Form . I was wondering is it worth to upgrade my laptop's RAM to 8 GB? And if it is how much of performance would I gain from doing that? I now have a HP ProBook 4530s with 4 GB of DDR3 1333 and it has a Core i3 2330M.

[Helepolis]

It would run only slightly faster by adding more ram. 64 bit operating systems tend to run a little better with more than 4 but this is fairly marginal. I wouldn't worry about it unless your doing memory intensive tasks.