A Beginners Guide: Upgrading Your PC's RAM
First time upgrading or installing RAM into your PC? You’ll be happy to hear the physical removal and installation process is super easy and in this video that is the first thing I go over. When upgrading your RAM or even purchasing RAM for a new PC build there are some things that are important to know and take into consideration. In this video I cover the most important things I’ve learned over the past 15 years that I’ve been building PC’s for myself, friends and family members to help you upgrade your PC’s RAM like a pro. If you follow the tips I share in this video your RAM upgrading, removal and installation adventure will be a smooth and successful one. Thanks for watching and enjoy your new upgrade.
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Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. 🙂
Time Stamps
0:00 – intro
0:22 – the first steps
1:33 – how to remove RAM modules
2:03 – how to install RAM modules
2:58 – 2, 4 & 8 DIMM slot motherboards
3:30 – Single Channel or Dual Channel?
4:10 – running your RAM in Dual Channel
4:41 – using 1 stick of RAM only
4:57 – tips for adding more RAM to your system
7:12 – tips for upgrading your RAM
7:40 – determine your RAM type (DDR3, DDR4, DDR5)
8:40 – How much RAM should I buy?
9:01 – What speed of RAM should I buy?
10:00 – check your motherboards memory support list a.k.a. QVL
10:51 – my first PC building experience
11:56 – Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! 🙂
Music in this video – “Apolllo” by Patrick Patrikios from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library
"Hey what do you want to to today?"
"brand speed and capacity"
When I installed tried to install 16 gigs to go up to 32 and my monitors wouldn’t come on
I checked your video to make sure I wasn’t missing any steps but I got some pretty useful extra information thanks 👍 I planned on pairing two of my new sticks with one of my old sticks😅
13 minute video of a professional yapper who’s also including unnecessary nonsense in the video or a 2 minute video that goes straight to the point
So, if I have 8 Gb of ram in my pc right now should I take that out to replace my 2x16gb? And put that in my 2nd and 4th slot?
I’m figuring out which RAM sticks I should get for my Alienware Aurora R7. I’m considering upgrading the RAM from 16 to 32, but I do not know what type of sticks I should and can get. I looked for compatible sources, but it was quite difficult to find proper sources to help me with this.
EDIT: this is the Motherboard in question (Desktop Motherboard VDT73 0VDT73 CN-0VDT73)
thank
K f u get to the point
Can i Upgrade gram without taking out the mother board ?
PC won’t boot up when popped in any ideas
If i have 2 x 8g ram installed can i install a different ram from a diffrent brand and different size while having the other ram installed?
Dude! I really like your videos! Straight to the point! Can’t stand when I click on a video about (how to) and 20 minutes later after two or more advertising promos I get to know that cable A goes on port D. annoying
Best video out there on upgrading RAM! Clear, concise, and very complete! Kudos to you!
Whay if i onlt got 3 stik of 8
So my Aurora R16 caps out at 64GB (2×32 DIMM slots) 5600mhz. I am looking at upgrading to Kinston Fury XMP 64GB at 6400mhz with CAS Latency at 32. I don’t care to overclock at this stage, so the Kingston is technically overspec’ed for the R16 and should run fine at the Aurora’s max native speed of 5600mhz, correct?
Im getting the Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz for my msi pc bc it only got 8 but should I got for a higher MHz or will 2666 work good it what i got rin with the one that came with the pc 8gb
The pc is just a basic h310 gaming infinite (ms-b915) that what it atleast said jn the settings
thank you very much for the guide
i am only gaming and have 16 gb but i just bought a fresh 32 gb shall i use that and take the 16 out or leave it in there for48 gb which is massive overkill?
My problem is that i added 1 new RAM stick thats almost indentical ddr4 3k mhz like old one, cl16, same 8gb only brand is different because those arent made anymore.
When i turn on PC both of them fall to 2100ish mhz even with auto "tuning" turned in BIOS. When i leave the old one it goes back to 3k mhz, when i leave just new one its same just when they are double they go like they dont match … Im baffled
im upgrading my ram to 32gb today, and already have xmp turned on before. Do i need to go to my bios again once ive doon my upgrade to re-enable xmp after installing my new ram sticks?
Wanna skip to a particular part of the video? Use the Time Stamps. 🙂
Time Stamps
0:00 – intro
0:22 – the first steps
1:33 – how to remove RAM modules
2:03 – how to install RAM modules
2:58 – 2, 4 & 8 DIMM slot motherboards
3:30 – Single Channel or Dual Channel?
4:10 – running your RAM in Dual Channel
4:41 – using 1 stick of RAM only
4:57 – tips for adding more RAM to your system
7:12 – tips for upgrading your RAM
7:40 – determine your RAM type (DDR3, DDR4, DDR5)
8:40 – How much RAM should I buy?
9:01 – What speed of RAM should I buy?
10:00 – check your motherboards memory support list a.k.a. QVL
10:51 – my first PC building experience
11:56 – Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! 🙂
Great video with clear and concise information.
Thank you for this!
I Love That Case you have!
I use the discharge to jump start my brain neurons.
2024 here, the bare minimum pretty much is around 32GB lol
I have a 8gb ram and a 1tb ram and my pc is struggling to keep a constant 60phs on GTA I have a 4060 TI
Wait so I shouldn’t have downloaded my RAM from the link on a website that says it’s perfectly legit..?
I move the jpwr2 cable now when I reattatch it it doesn’t power up it starts to but cuts off
I have a question, do I have to do something in my BIOS after I put my ram in? because I want to upgrade my ram by my self and im afraid that I will have to do something with the BIOS. I would really appreciate if someone can help me!!
THANK YOUUU! 😀
me working with a old pc and a small tiny square hp prodesk pc 😭
Can i mix RAM cards like 4gb intel with 16gb Card and they are different brands
I would appreciate suggestions to this question:
I have 2 PNY 1600 8GB Ram sticks with C11 Latency. I want to buy 2 additional 8GB Ram sticks. Cost isn’t a factor.
Should I buy:
2 Motoeagle 1600 8GB with C7 Latency
or
2 PNY identical to the 2 that I am already using
I run 5 bluestacks games at the same time. I currently have 16gb of ram and it maxes it out. Time for 32gb of ram. Many don’t need the 32gb but if your running heavy applications this would be ideal.
Does it matter what side you put in the ram?
2024, DDR3 still available as new from amazon
my cpu cooler is so big that it covers up one of my ram slots XD
I just got my first pc two days ago and I have came across thousands of videos that really make me wonder if I made the right decision!
Do you have a video on how to replace your existing operating systems ssd with a newer one?
I have 8gb Ram atm. So i could just leave those ram sticks inside there slots and place extra on the empty slots? Dont u have to do soemhting in the software or bios?
do you have to take the motherboard and stuff out to install the ram
great video
I sold my Ram and bought a Goat………
If i have 2 16gb ram sticks and add a 3 16gb ram stick will that slow down my pc?
Hey man love the video! Quick question. If I am changing out my existing ram, is there anything I need to do computer wise after/before changing it out? Like transferring any memory etc? I’m very new to this thank you!
Heck watching this now, 16G is now not enough. Upgrading to 32G haha thanks for the video
Thank you for this video! I didn’t think to look at the support page for the motherboard. So that honestly saved me a few hundred dollars. This also showed that doing this was a lot simpler than I thought!
I installed my my ram but my monitors arent connecting to my PC. Keeps sauing "DP no signal"
Helpful !
Can i just buy any type of ram and put it in there? For example, i have 8gb (one stick) and i want to add 16gb (in one stick), is that possible or do I need to have 8gb, and does the ram have to be the same manufacturer or can i have a Corsair ram and something else?😅