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Question from Sarah: I’m getting ready to order this new laptop from Amazon and I have a question about it.
This laptop comes with 16GB of RAM but I can get the same machine with 32GB for about $50 more.
Do you think it’s worth paying an extra $50 to double the RAM? Will I even need 32GB? [Read more…]
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If you have a Windows PC there are several excellent third-party tools you can use to collect all kinds of useful information about your computer’s hardware components and configuration.
I have actually written about a few of my favorites in the past, including the fantastic duo of HWiNFO and Speccy.
But if all you need to do is determine the amount, type and speed of your system’s installed RAM, you don’t need to install anything at all. [Read more…]
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Question from Melvin: I need to buy a new computer because my 6 year old desktop has started giving me all kinds of problems.
I want to buy a machine that’ll last for several years and I’ve always had good luck with buying the more expensive Dells.
I’ve been looking at the Dell desktops on Amazon and this one caught my attention.
I’m fairly computer savvy but this line in the computer’s description confuses me: [Read more…]
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Question from David: I recently bought a refurbished Dell desktop computer that came with 8GB of RAM installed. I want to double that to 16GB.
I ran the “Crucial System Scanner” you mentioned in this post and it said the machine can use up to 64GB of DDR4-2133 RAM.
I found an 8GB DDR4-2133 RAM stick on Ebay for less than half of what Crucial is selling them for so I bought it. I received the new RAM just 3 days after I ordered it but it won’t fit into one of the empty RAM sockets on the computer.
Do you think the problem is an error in the info I got from the System Scanner? [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…]