Laptop upgrade or move on?

nordbyen

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Hey. Hope you can give a casual computer guy some much needed advice.

I just bought a new Laptop:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/4664161
https://www.elkjop.no/product/data/barbar-pc/ACNXGLLED008/acer-aspire-es1-433-14-barbar-pc-sort

I want to improve performance for tasks such as games, Photoshop and video editing.
I realize i might have bought the wrong Laptop for my needs. I've been looking at Upgrades the RAM from the current 4gb to 16gb. (2x8Gb)

Is the RAM Upgrade a wise path?
Are there other options?
Have i failed and should consider selling the Laptop for a New one, and stop beeing so darn cheap?
Thanks in advance for any help.

 
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Yes and no. Yes, increased system memory would could result in increased graphics memory, but the system only reserves so much. The other problem is that integrated graphics cards don't have the same processing power or instructions that dedicated cards have. One exception is the AMD A-Series processors as they have both CPU and GPU processing cores. Additionally, Intel has always been focused on the CPU processing side of computers and never really dabbled in the video side. AMD was the same way until a while back they purchased ATI for the graphical processing.

If you have the money, Intel for CPU and nVidia for Graphics. If you're budget is low, AMD A-Series can get you a low - mid level gaming capabilities. However, the...

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Your main bottleneck here is the graphics card. It looks like you have an Integrated Intel HD graphics and that's just not really suitable for gaming. Unfortunately, you'd have to buy a new computer as most laptops you are not able to upgrade the video card.
 

nordbyen

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Am trying to study up on the different Components. As you stated the internal Graphics card aren't made for complex 3d tasks. This might sound stupid, but i'll ask anyways. The internal Graphics cars uses the main memory of the computer right? so if that's the case, would not a RAM Upgrade also affect the internal Graphics Cards performance?

ref: http://laptopmedia.com/highlights/gaming-on-intels-hd-graphics-620-kaby-lake-sure-why-not/
 

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Yes and no. Yes, increased system memory would could result in increased graphics memory, but the system only reserves so much. The other problem is that integrated graphics cards don't have the same processing power or instructions that dedicated cards have. One exception is the AMD A-Series processors as they have both CPU and GPU processing cores. Additionally, Intel has always been focused on the CPU processing side of computers and never really dabbled in the video side. AMD was the same way until a while back they purchased ATI for the graphical processing.

If you have the money, Intel for CPU and nVidia for Graphics. If you're budget is low, AMD A-Series can get you a low - mid level gaming capabilities. However, the A-Series Sockets (FM2) isn't being expanded as much anymore and doesn't have much of a future left as AMD has released a new series of processors (Ryzen), which do not support integrated graphics at this time.
 
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