What kind of RAM do I buy?

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inzone

inzone

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Most all laptops have two ram slots and the maximum amount of ram is usually not very high, the laptop that you have states that the maximum amount of ram is 8gb and since it comes with 6gb most likely you have two sticks of 3gb. If you want to upgrade to 8gb then you will have to get two sticks of 4gb and take out the ram that you have. Before buying anything you can check out what you have by removing the cover on the bottom of the laptop that covers the ram slots, it should be clearly marked and it's usually a square piece about 3" or 4" square. The slots will be laying down and there will be a latch to release them so that the ram sticks can be removed.

I would question why you want to upgrade from 6gb to 8gb as a 2gb increase will no make much of a performance increase. You would also be buying a new 8gb set of ram.
 
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utroz

utroz

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Easy 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM's from what have read 1333mhz aka PC3-10600. You might have either a 4GB+2GB dimms or have 2x3GB dimms none of the spec sheets I could find were clear so I would go to http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html and download it and run it and on the "SPD" page it will list the dimm size and specs of dimm #1 and if you select dimm #2 it will tell you the size and specs of that as well. Just let us know what it says and I can tell you what you would need to get to 8GB's of RAM. Depending on your configuration you might only need to buy one 4GB Ram stick, absolute worse case you would need to get 2x4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM's PC3-10600 aka DDR-1333Mhz. Hope this helps you some.. Good luck.
 
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