Upgrading bad/old laptop ram.

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Ahead of time, Yes I know this laptop is old and I should just buy a new handbuilt desktop ( Doing so after I move.) So keep comments like that to yourself, I'm very well aware. I'm upgrading my current laptop's ram. It's an Acer aspire 5750-6636, I'd like to know if this ram would work/fit within it's 'case' G.Skill Ripjaws #1 or if this one would G.Skill #2 or if there's another I havent found that'd be more 'bang per buck' for this ordeal. Trying to keep price range for this to be under 100$ being it's not worth much more then that.
 
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For your laptop, the only difference between the i3 and i5 is clock speed and the i5s have "turbo boost." Neither will make much difference in sustained gaming because the chip will be limited more by how quickly your laptop can cool it. SSDs make pretty much everything faster. You won't increase your average framerate much, but you can improve skips, pauses, and loading times.
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Almost anything I do, my laptop is topping out with Phys mem. with around ~3,000,000 and with the system there's only ~3.8g usable with nothing running. So that's the reason I'm trying for 8 gigs or more, but I'll look into an ssd aswell as this if able.

Update: Forgot to mention I have opened up the laptop (motherboard in hand fully out) and noticed I am able to change out the CPU. For that laptop I posted, what types of CPUs would fit within it's place if at all being that is another way I could push out more power. Just for note: It's an i3 2.1MHz. Would something like this work better in it's place or just not fit ? I'm not aware of how laptop CPUs are compaired to desktop. AMD Trinity then there's Intel Pentium Also I know it says 'Desktop' within both of them but this gives a start for me to know what works within the laptop itself.
 
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You could probably (no guarantee) fit in an i5 2520m or 2540m, but it wouldn't be worth the money. Those can turbo up to 3.2 GHz, but would be limited by both heat and power draw.
It sounds like you are using more memory than you should be. You may want to see if there is a particular program consuming system resources. On the other hand, if you are using 3GB, you still won't notice much performance improvement moving to 8GB. I definitely think you would find more boost from an SSD and more future use for it as well.
 
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On the other hand would upgrading my CPU fix how this i3 is getting kinda bogged down ? Running at 8% idle to around 80% with any sort of mmorpg. If none of that would fix it to a noticable diffrence, would a SSD speed-up say loading times on programs/games ?
 
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For your laptop, the only difference between the i3 and i5 is clock speed and the i5s have "turbo boost." Neither will make much difference in sustained gaming because the chip will be limited more by how quickly your laptop can cool it. SSDs make pretty much everything faster. You won't increase your average framerate much, but you can improve skips, pauses, and loading times.
 
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