- Aug 29, 2015
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Hello!
My brother in law's computer is a Asus F453M with 2GB Ram and a Celeron N2840, 500 GB HDD @5400rpms. He bought it second hand for 90 bucks a 1-2 years ago, but it has come to the point where it's annoying to use it. Can't really complain for the price, but I was thinking of doing it an upgrade and bring some new life into it.
That's pretty much it, it's a hog, it's slow and unresponsive. I assume it's because of the weak cpu, but mostly because no pc in 2018 can function properly with 2gb of ram. At the moment, the ram is a generic branded 1333mhz DDR3 9-9-9-24 timings ram. I found some second-hand RAM in the "used" market and for 40 bucks negotiable, I can buy this:
https://www.kingstonmemoryshop.co.uk/kingston-8gb-ddr3-dell-sodimm-ram-memory-module-ktd-l3c-8g
Is this specific model compatible with the laptop? Because it is 1600mhz. Supposedly, it should downclock to 1333mhz per default, but something's always different with laptops in my experience, especially the lower end ones
Also, is it gonna be a decent upgrade or will the CPU keep bottlenecking the pc to the point this upgrade is meaningless? It is mainly used just for web browsing and facebook, and even opening a new chrome tab freezes the whole computer for a few seconds, maybe even minutes at times.
Sorry for the long rant, thanks for reading!
My brother in law's computer is a Asus F453M with 2GB Ram and a Celeron N2840, 500 GB HDD @5400rpms. He bought it second hand for 90 bucks a 1-2 years ago, but it has come to the point where it's annoying to use it. Can't really complain for the price, but I was thinking of doing it an upgrade and bring some new life into it.
That's pretty much it, it's a hog, it's slow and unresponsive. I assume it's because of the weak cpu, but mostly because no pc in 2018 can function properly with 2gb of ram. At the moment, the ram is a generic branded 1333mhz DDR3 9-9-9-24 timings ram. I found some second-hand RAM in the "used" market and for 40 bucks negotiable, I can buy this:
https://www.kingstonmemoryshop.co.uk/kingston-8gb-ddr3-dell-sodimm-ram-memory-module-ktd-l3c-8g
Is this specific model compatible with the laptop? Because it is 1600mhz. Supposedly, it should downclock to 1333mhz per default, but something's always different with laptops in my experience, especially the lower end ones
Also, is it gonna be a decent upgrade or will the CPU keep bottlenecking the pc to the point this upgrade is meaningless? It is mainly used just for web browsing and facebook, and even opening a new chrome tab freezes the whole computer for a few seconds, maybe even minutes at times.
Sorry for the long rant, thanks for reading!
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