Double your RAM – This Method Actually Works! By Linus Tech Tips

Ramp 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 download more ram, comm and install as much as you need all without spending it. Ok, most of you probably saw that coming but researching how to increase your RAM actually does bring up a lot of bull crap 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 Origin PC offers beautiful custom, desktops, high-performance laptops and lifetime.24/7 tech support. They will use high quality products like Samsung's 960, pro m2 SSDs, and you can visit Origin PC today at the link below for a limited time deal if you Google double your RAM for free. 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 superfast RAM and then on to your way. Slower virtual memory, that's stored on your SSD, freeing your RAM up to kick ass and to bubblegum ease 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 spend 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 holdouts, for example, the next common tip is to use a ram clean program. These work, by placing a heavy demand on the ramp, 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 going to have to wait for it to completely load again and to 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 wanted. Internet is faster, but it is not free. Well. The solution here is to just buy more round, 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, remembers 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 zone protection mechanisms fail, 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 you're dim, it 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 s, o 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 of a 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 accompany 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, notes to use smaller, lithography or even just plain old.

Bad luck. So, ultimately, you're left with two options: playing the market: monitoring, DRAM, exchanging 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. FreshBooks is the small business accounting software for freelancers and small business owners. It allows you to be more productive, more organized and perhaps most importantly, get paid faster.

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