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Question from Andy: Hi Rick. I have several pieces of laptop RAM that I’ve culled from broken laptops over the years.
I’d love to use a couple of those sticks to max out the RAM in my Dell desktop PC, but I need your advice first.
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Question from Pete: I have a Dell desktop computer that came with 8GB of RAM and Windows 7. I have since upgraded it to Windows 10.
Per your recommendation I went to Crucial.com and ran their System Scanner on this machine and it says it can use up to 16GB of RAM.
I know that adding more RAM to a computer makes it run faster. My question is would doubling the amount of RAM in this particular computer to 16GB make it run a LOT faster?
Question from Calvin: I have two 8GB DDR4 RAM sticks in my computer. They are identical to one another in every way (I bought them a while back as a 16GB kit).
When I log into the BIOS it says one stick is running at 2400Mhz and the other one is running at 2133Mhz.
I’ve always heard that all the RAM sticks in a PC should operate at the same speed or your system might crash.
Question from Benji P.: Rick, I took my eight year old HP laptop to Best Buy over the weekend to have them upgrade the RAM for me.
This machine only has 4GB and I want to bump it up to 8GB. I know it can use 8GB because I looked it up.
After some back and forth the guy told me I shouldn’t waste my money upgrading a machine that was that old and proceeded to try to sell me a new computer. I don’t want a new laptop. I like this one!
My question is do you know of a place in the Raleigh, NC area that will upgrade the memory for me? Or is this something that I can possibly do myself?
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Question from Mike T.: The screen in my laptop went bad and I’m getting ready to buy a new one.
The old machine is a Dell Inspiron 14 5000 that I bought back in January 2015.
Since the old Dell has 16GB of RAM in it I was wondering if it’s possible to buy a new laptop with just 4GB of RAM and then swap the RAM from the Dell into the new laptop?