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Question from Hailey: Rick, I think I’ve gotten myself into a mess and I need your advice.
I recently purchased two RAM modules on Ebay to go an older laptop I own.
The modules I bought were listed and sold as Kingston brand but I just found out that the seller was busted for selling counterfeit computer parts.
The new RAM seems to be working fine in my laptop, but I was wondering if it might cause problems down the road. [Read more…]
Question from Marie: You never cease to amaze me, Rick. It seems like you have an answer for every question that people ask of you.
How on earth do you remember all the obscure and complicated tech stuff that we’re always asking you about? Do you have a photographic memory or something? [Read more…]
Question from Gene: Rick, I have a desktop computer I hired a guy to build for me about 3 years ago. It has Windows 10 on it.
It has 4 GB of RAM in it right now and I’d really like to max it out to (hopefully) speed things up a bit.
How can I find out how much memory this computer can use since it doesn’t really have a brand/model to look up? [Read more…]
If you’re thinking about spending a few bucks to upgrade your PC you’re probably wondering what to upgrade in order to get the most bang for the buck.
In most cases, except for adding a solid state drive, adding more RAM will do more to speed up your computer than any other upgrade you can make. [Read more…]
Question from Daniel G.: Hi Rick. I just noticed something that has me puzzled and I hope you can help me understand how it works.
Last night I downloaded a game and installed it on my computer, and it runs just fine.
The thing that’s puzzling me is the game was a 30GB download but it runs on my computer even though it only has 8GB of RAM.
What trick are they using to shoehorn 30GB of code into 8GB of RAM? Is it compressed somehow?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]