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Laptop upgrade advice? RAM and SSD?
I'm looking at upgrading my current laptop to a gaming laptop. I don't play many massive triple A titles on it but I have a lot of games and keep a lot of stuff on it and sometimes my laptop struggles to load some stuff or it gets stutters and bits of lag. It's pretty old now, so I've been thinking of upgrading memory, processor and graphics. I heard SSD was faster to read files, but because I keep all my stuff on my laptop and I use it for video editing as well, I need HDD for storage. I thought about getting both HDD and SSD but to keep it close to my ideal price (£1000 and below, max. cap £1200) all the ones I can see are offering 6GB RAM. What level of SSD would I need to deal with the 2GB drop in RAM? Is it worth it?
Current specs:8GB RAMIntel i5 (aiming for i7)Intel HD Graphics (aiming for Nvidia GeForce GTX1060Ti)1TB HDD
I did also question if having a low level graphics card would be the cause of some of these lag and loading problems too. Could upgrading just that fix things?
Thanks in advance for any help
I am intending to buy a new laptop! My question is mainly just is it worth taking a drop in RAM to get SSD to keep within my price range or should I stick with the same amount of RAM and just get better processor and graphics card? Sorry if it wasn't clear
3 Answers
- ∅Lv 711 months ago
okay, first off, before we get into anything else, upgrading a laptop is not a very feasible plan.
laptops are not designed to be upgradeable. desktops are more upgradeable, but honestly, ghere are limitations to that, too, unless you have a custom build.
suffice it to say that you have very limited options on a laptop.
in fact, it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to upgrade the video "card", as most of them only work with what they came with.
secondly, the CPU is often soldered in, and when it is not, it uses a proprietary connector, so that you CANNOT upgrade.
thirdly, any such major upgrade would also require you to replace the stock power supply for the extra power to the new parts, and that cannot be done on a laptop.
the only real parts you can upgrade on a laptop are RAM and SSD.
oh, and 6GB of RAM is ALWAYS bad. even 4GB is better.
whatxs important is that both sticks are identical in size and model (in every possible way) to allow dual-channel.
- AdrianLv 711 months ago
New gaming laptop, my comment would be that video processor is more important than either ram or SSD.
After that, it depends on how much ram you already get with the base machine. 8GB with SSD would be nice. 16GB better, but can you afford both 16GB and SSD?
Gaming lag is mostly related to your Internet speed (if online gaming) and your video system. SSD makes the system faster overall, but once a game loads its "code", the video card determines frame rates and overall gaming performance. Most games are ok with 8GB of ram. Windows will page off what it does not need (SSD makes paging faster) and leave more free ram as required. 16GB is overkill for most games, they do not use that much ram in most cases.
- Anonymous11 months ago
You typically can't upgrade the graphics in notebooks. In quite a few you can't upgrade the processor either, the CPU is permanently soldered to the motherboard. Many older ones max out at 8gb of RAM due to the mobile chipsets. Just buy a new notebook.
