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RAM prices have been absolutely bonkers for the last year and it looks like we

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still have months to go before they cool down fortunately in the meantime you can

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simply go to downloadmoreram.com and install as much as you need

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all without spending it

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okay most of you probably saw that coming but

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researching how to increase your RAM

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actually does bring up a lot of bullcrap

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advice from guys like this who tell you to clean your fans with baking flour

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and then laugh at you when it blows up in your face

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so today's video is all about cutting through the nonsense with a red hot

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the most common solutions you'll find are to open up Windows advanced

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performance options and increase what's called virtual memory

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now RAM is accessed in pages or chunks

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of memory that are read and written as a whole so the theory here is that because

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many of these pages don't change for long periods of time or even at all once

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the operating system is finished loading they can be moved off of your super fast

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RAM and then on to your way way slower

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virtual memory that's stored on your SSD freeing your RAM up to kick-ass and two

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bubble gums the problem is that you're not actually

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increasing your system's physical memory you're just allocating more of the

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storage so that SSD or even a hard drive

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to act like memory this is designed to prevent programs from crashing due to

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low memory errors but these devices are far too slow to be

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an actual solution and your computer should be set to manage these settings

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automatically anyway we recommend leaving them alone

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another trick is memory compression which takes those infrequently called

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pages and spends some CPU resources on shrinking them down like a zip file so

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that they don't occupy as much RAM this is actually how old software like

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RAM doubler worked so the good news here is that it's not

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bs and if you're using a recent pc or mac

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then your computer already does it automatically

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and the bad news is that other than running a hypervisor like vmware's esxi

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and then a virtualized os under it third-party apps that do this are no

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longer available if you're a Windows 7 holdout for example

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the next common tip is to use a RAM cleaner program

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these work by placing a heavy demand on the RAM prompting the system to push

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existing memory pages to virtual memory and to discard inactive ones

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but number one if you happen to relaunch

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a program that was previously cached but inactive you're gonna have to wait for

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it to completely load again and two a

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lot of the pages are just going to move back to physical memory once you call on

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them anyway you'd be better off to do some good old-fashioned housekeeping

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take a look at the programs that are set to launch on startup on your system and

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make sure that there are no memory hungry apps that you barely ever use

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choking your supply finally you might come across

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suggestions that you overclock your RAM

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look take it from me this is generally not worth it yes you can make the rent

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that you have marginally faster but you're opening yourself up to

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troubleshooting hell if your memory isn't 100 stable and you're not actually

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really fixing the bottleneck which is the slow loading of data from your main

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system storage into the RAM leading us finally to the surefire one

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tech tip to rule them all solution for increasing your RAM

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i hate to do this to you guys but remember last time when the way to

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double your internet speed this method really works was to

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pay for faster internet bonded internet is faster but it is not free

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well the solution here is to just buy more

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RAM but wait hold on this video wasn't totally pointless we can help you save a

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few bucks tip number one is to buy used

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RAM if second hand makes you nervous remember that many memory manufacturers

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offer limited lifetime warranties meaning that if you buy on ebay and it

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doesn't work and for whatever reason ebay and paypal's own protection

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mechanisms fail you you may still be able to get it replaced for free except

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for maybe the return shipping cost and you're probably thinking well hold

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on don't you have to be the original purchaser

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actually the answer is that depends not every company includes that

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stipulation in their warranty policy and even some of the ones we do like

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kingston and Corsair confirmed when we reached out to them that they often

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waive this requirement along with the one for proof of purchase in favor of

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providing better customer service so as long as your dim still has the genuine

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serial number stickers on it there's a good chance you could get it replaced

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and why stop at desktop RAM small outline or so dims from an old laptop

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can be repurposed using inexpensive adapters like the ones we used in this

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video one word of caution though when you're buying used is to look out for system

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specific RAM this is RAM that if you look up the part number you'll find is

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guaranteed to work with one or usually a

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small handful of specific systems it

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usually costs more anyway because it's got this extra stage of validation but

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if you do find a good deal on it just beware there's a chance it'll work

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but it's also possible that it won't be stable or straight up won't work in a

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system that it wasn't designed for as for those of you who insist on buying

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new it's trickier to come up with tips for you we had kind of hoped that historical

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data might reveal a time of the year when RAM is cheaper or some kind of

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consistent pattern in how the launch of a new technology like the upcoming ddr5

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might affect the price of the existing technology

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but the launch of ddr4 did not spur a

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mass liquidation of ddr3 stock because the chipsets and cpus that accompanied

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ddr4 didn't bring enough of a performance jump to compel the average

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mainstream user to upgrade to the new platform

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so if you were itching for a memory upgrade at the end of 2014 you may

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actually have been better off to just go for it rather than wait around for

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prices to fall and this is something that may happen again with ddr5 which is

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slated for release sometime in the next couple of years so

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the unfortunate reality is that there are many forces at play that influence

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the price of commodity desktop memory modules including surging demand for low

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power dram for smartphones depressed yields due to manufacturers recently

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switching their process nodes to use smaller lithography or even just plain

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old bad luck so ultimately you're left

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with two options playing the market monitoring dram

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exchange and snapping up bushels of sticks the moment the price dips then

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flipping them when it goes up or

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just bucking up and buying the RAM you need when you need it

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