Would adding 8GB more of ram into a R5 4600H + GTX 1650 laptop worth it?

[Memes]

Just got the renewed Acer Nitro 5 for $539 for my brother and its been great so far. Added 1TB hard drive in there and I would like to get another 8GB of ram for $30. Should the laptop have 2x8GB or just stick with the 8GB for now? He probably wont play those newer games but would play like Doom (2016), Metal Gear Series, Stalker, etc.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it's not Crucial already then it's not Micron.

Micron doesn't make oem no brand ram. They only allow those through Crucial brand. Laptops don't ship from any factory with Crucial inside.

[Memes]

Heres the info on the ram. My bad if its blurry
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2223887024

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Interesting I thought Micron stopped doing MT oem ram long ago.

Yea I looked up the model, here you go.

https://www.newegg.com/p/0RM-0016-00030?item=9SIAKRHBCA7304

[Memes]

the ram installed is running at 3200mhz tho. The one you listed is 2400

[vadim]

_I_ eredeti hozzászólása:

dual ch helps alot with newer cpus

Performance gain from dual channel RAM often greatly overestimated.
https://techguided.com/single-channel-vs-dual-channel-vs-quad-channel/

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Sorry Newegg sent to wrong link, I should double checked first. They have the 3200 model for it but out of stock.

Either search on EBAY >
MTA8ATF1G64HZ-3G2J1

Many on ebay will come up ending in E1 or B1, those are not 3200mhz

Or remove current 8gb and buy a 2x8gb ddr4 3200 so-dimm that matches. Such as Corsair, Gskill, HyperX

Vadim so what. 8gb ram is complete rubbish to even have since like 2012. Win10 needs to have a good 4gb ram all to itself at all times.

[vadim]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

Vadim so what. 8gb ram is complete rubbish to even have since like 2012. Win10 needs to have a good 4gb ram all to itself at all times.

RAM size and number of channels have nothing to do with each other. You cannot say "dual channel helps a lot with newer CPUs, because 8 GB isn't enough".

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm saying, increase the ram. I'm not attempting to push the use of dual channel. But if you're going to add ram, the next logical step is to go to 16gb

[vadim]

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm saying, increase the ram.

And you are right. I didn't test it myself, but I believe OP games should benefit from 16 GB RAM. Especially because his VRAM is limited. But I answered to _I_, not to you.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ok I see that now. I missed the post above where Vadim quotes _|_

But yes even outside of gaming the extra ram helps with work apps, office, photo editing, etc.

[_I_]

for its igpu dual ch ram makes a noticeable difference

overall performance with dual ch is a bigger diff with newer cpus vs previous gens

and the extra ram will help when its needed
too little ram can cause stuttering or overall slow performance (pagefile on hdd/ssd is alot slower than ram)

[vadim]

_I_ eredeti hozzászólása:

for its igpu dual ch ram makes a noticeable difference

You absolutely right. For integrated GPU performance gain from dual channel RAM is huge.
I tested it with one game once and got about 40% FPS loss when I unplugged second SO-DIMM from my notebook (RAM size also decreased from 16 GB to 8).
But FPS difference with devicated NVidia graphic was negligible.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm actually surprised that a cheap laptop of that price range came with quality 3200mhz ram. When Ryzen laptops first launched all those were using was Hynix 2666 ram.

But also dispute what Crucial website might say, there is no reason why Crucial ddr4 3200 so-dimm wouldn't work in your laptop as all they use is Micron chip based ram anyways. Just that I'd use the cheapest crucial 3200mhz ram and not the Crucial Ballistix ram

[Memes]

Yeah I got the cheapest Crucial DDR4 ram that matches the specs with the one on the laptop.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes that should work just fine.