Ram upgrade

[Shyam1998]

I have 4gb of ram on my lap which is expandable up to 12 gb.I would like to expand it,but I am really confused should I expand it till 8 or 12gb.If I expand to 12 gb will I lose the parallel chanelling effect ?or any other problem.Please help me out.

[suchamoneypit]

I'm gonna assume it just has 2 RAM slots and you either currently have 2x2GB or 1x4GB, either way the most you'd want to do is 2x4GB sticks to reach 8GB max and with channelling effect if supported. Maybe it also supports 1 4GB stick and 1 8GB stick too, but not 2x8GB sticks. That would be kinda odd though. Whats the laptop?

[asand1]

Do you have a model#?

[Shyam1998]

On 4/8/2018 at 11:05 AM, suchamoneypit said:

I'm gonna assume it just has 2 RAM slots and you either currently have 2x2GB or 1x4GB, either way the most you'd want to do is 2x4GB sticks to reach 8GB max and with channelling effect if supported. Maybe it also supports 1 4GB stick and 1 8GB stick too, but not 2x8GB sticks. That would be kinda odd though. Whats the laptop?

I have 2 slots and one has 4gb ddr4 ram 

And my lap is expandable up to 12 gb so should I use 1 4gb stick or 1 8gb stick 

[suchamoneypit]

17 hours ago, Shyam1998 said:

I have 2 slots and one has 4gb ddr4 ram 

And my lap is expandable up to 12 gb so should I use 1 4gb stick or 1 8gb stick 

I would buy 1 more identical 4GB stick or buy a kit that has 2x4GB. I would mix and match different sticks.

[James09]

On older systems, it is highly recommended to run identical ram sticks, as the gentleman mentioned above, and not mix and match as older systems tend to have some ram compatibility issues. I personally had a laptop with constant blue screens when i mixed and matched RAM. That being said, if you stick with the major brands such as Transcend or Kingston etc, you should mostly be fine. Keep in mind though that if you mix speeds, like 1 x 4gb DDR3 1333 and 1 x 4gb DDR3 1600 then both will run at the slowest speed, 1333. 

[Shyam1998]

On 4/10/2018 at 9:18 AM, James09 said:

On older systems, it is highly recommended to run identical ram sticks, as the gentleman mentioned above, and not mix and match as older systems tend to have some ram compatibility issues. I personally had a laptop with constant blue screens when i mixed and matched RAM. That being said, if you stick with the major brands such as Transcend or Kingston etc, you should mostly be fine. Keep in mind though that if you mix speeds, like 1 x 4gb DDR3 1333 and 1 x 4gb DDR3 1600 then both will run at the slowest speed, 1333. 

Mine is a not that old lap,it has 7th gen i5 and nvidia 940MX.My model is asus R558UQ