RAM prices have been absolutely bonkers for the last year and it looks like we
still have months to go before they cool down fortunately in the meantime you can
simply go to downloadmoreram.com and install as much as you need
all without spending it
okay most of you probably saw that coming but
researching how to increase your RAM
actually does bring up a lot of bullcrap
advice from guys like this who tell you to clean your fans with baking flour
and then laugh at you when it blows up in your face
so today's video is all about cutting through the nonsense with a red hot
knife of real world pro tips to help you get the right memory upgrade for less
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the most common solutions you'll find are to open up Windows advanced
performance options and increase what's called virtual memory
now RAM is accessed in pages or chunks
of memory that are read and written as a whole so the theory here is that because
many of these pages don't change for long periods of time or even at all once
the operating system is finished loading they can be moved off of your super fast
RAM and then on to your way way slower
virtual memory that's stored on your SSD freeing your RAM up to kick-ass and two
bubble gums the problem is that you're not actually
increasing your system's physical memory you're just allocating more of the
storage so that SSD or even a hard drive
to act like memory this is designed to prevent programs from crashing due to
low memory errors but these devices are far too slow to be
an actual solution and your computer should be set to manage these settings
automatically anyway we recommend leaving them alone
another trick is memory compression which takes those infrequently called
pages and spends some CPU resources on shrinking them down like a zip file so
that they don't occupy as much RAM this is actually how old software like
RAM doubler worked so the good news here is that it's not
bs and if you're using a recent pc or mac
then your computer already does it automatically
and the bad news is that other than running a hypervisor like vmware's esxi
and then a virtualized os under it third-party apps that do this are no
longer available if you're a Windows 7 holdout for example
the next common tip is to use a RAM cleaner program
these work by placing a heavy demand on the RAM prompting the system to push
existing memory pages to virtual memory and to discard inactive ones
but number one if you happen to relaunch
a program that was previously cached but inactive you're gonna have to wait for
it to completely load again and two a
lot of the pages are just going to move back to physical memory once you call on
them anyway you'd be better off to do some good old-fashioned housekeeping
take a look at the programs that are set to launch on startup on your system and
make sure that there are no memory hungry apps that you barely ever use
choking your supply finally you might come across
suggestions that you overclock your RAM
look take it from me this is generally not worth it yes you can make the rent
that you have marginally faster but you're opening yourself up to
troubleshooting hell if your memory isn't 100 stable and you're not actually
really fixing the bottleneck which is the slow loading of data from your main
system storage into the RAM leading us finally to the surefire one
tech tip to rule them all solution for increasing your RAM
i hate to do this to you guys but remember last time when the way to
double your internet speed this method really works was to
pay for faster internet bonded internet is faster but it is not free
well the solution here is to just buy more
RAM but wait hold on this video wasn't totally pointless we can help you save a
few bucks tip number one is to buy used
RAM if second hand makes you nervous remember that many memory manufacturers
offer limited lifetime warranties meaning that if you buy on ebay and it
doesn't work and for whatever reason ebay and paypal's own protection
mechanisms fail you you may still be able to get it replaced for free except
for maybe the return shipping cost and you're probably thinking well hold
on don't you have to be the original purchaser
actually the answer is that depends not every company includes that
stipulation in their warranty policy and even some of the ones we do like
kingston and Corsair confirmed when we reached out to them that they often
waive this requirement along with the one for proof of purchase in favor of
providing better customer service so as long as your dim still has the genuine
serial number stickers on it there's a good chance you could get it replaced
and why stop at desktop RAM small outline or so dims from an old laptop
can be repurposed using inexpensive adapters like the ones we used in this
video one word of caution though when you're buying used is to look out for system
specific RAM this is RAM that if you look up the part number you'll find is
guaranteed to work with one or usually a
small handful of specific systems it
usually costs more anyway because it's got this extra stage of validation but
if you do find a good deal on it just beware there's a chance it'll work
but it's also possible that it won't be stable or straight up won't work in a
system that it wasn't designed for as for those of you who insist on buying
new it's trickier to come up with tips for you we had kind of hoped that historical
data might reveal a time of the year when RAM is cheaper or some kind of
consistent pattern in how the launch of a new technology like the upcoming ddr5
might affect the price of the existing technology
but the launch of ddr4 did not spur a
mass liquidation of ddr3 stock because the chipsets and cpus that accompanied
ddr4 didn't bring enough of a performance jump to compel the average
mainstream user to upgrade to the new platform
so if you were itching for a memory upgrade at the end of 2014 you may
actually have been better off to just go for it rather than wait around for
prices to fall and this is something that may happen again with ddr5 which is
slated for release sometime in the next couple of years so
the unfortunate reality is that there are many forces at play that influence
the price of commodity desktop memory modules including surging demand for low
power dram for smartphones depressed yields due to manufacturers recently
switching their process nodes to use smaller lithography or even just plain
old bad luck so ultimately you're left
with two options playing the market monitoring dram
exchange and snapping up bushels of sticks the moment the price dips then
flipping them when it goes up or
just bucking up and buying the RAM you need when you need it
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