Hey folks, I got a new (old) laptop: a Lenovo Ideapad 320-15IAP Barely used, so the battery still lasts, and I'm looking forward to using it for coding/school work. Problem is, it's terribly slow. It has a 1.1Ghz Celeron and 4GB of DDR3L ram at 800Mhz, according to CPU-Z. SO, I want to upgrade the ram but I can only find 1600mhz DDR3L ram online. Would that be a problem? The manual only says DDR3L and nothing else: [look up lenovo ideapad 320-15iap ram. there will be a forum post on the lenovo forums and in one of the responses there will be the manual link. im not sure why lenovo links are blocked here but whatever] (page 29).
TL;DR: I have a Lenovo Ideapad 320-15IAP and I wanna upgrade the ram but I'm not exactly sure what kind of ram to get (I know i need to get DDR3 Lite but im not sure about the speed or clXX or whatever). Any help is appreciated :-)
#Laptop Upgrade
balmy acorn
balmy acorn
On an added note, i looked up the ram (samsung M471B5173EB0-YK0) and it does say that its 1600mhz, all considered i should be safe buying whatever as long as it matches voltage or something (1.35V)
hasty crescent
On an added note, i looked up the ram (samsung M471B5173EB0-YK0) and it does...
It depends on if the motherboard supports 1600 mhz
I've looked and yes 8 GB DDR3L is on its parts list so it is compatible with it
If you haven't I'd also recommend an upgrade from HDD to SSD if it still has a HDD as well
But uhh... celerons deserve to die in fires unless they are Chromebooks
balmy acorn
If you haven't I'd also recommend an upgrade from HDD to SSD if it still has a H...
im gonna do that aswell
balmy acorn
But uhh... celerons deserve to die in fires unless they are Chromebooks
tbf it works pretty well. ive disabled updates (please dont kill me) so it would probably last a year or two for what im trying to do with it
and you see celerons in "consumer" laptops everywhere
hasty crescent
dw i wont kill you Windows is much more bloated now than it used to be :/
balmy acorn
when theyre basically unusable with any modern os
altho im using atlasos for speed puproses so that fixes a lot of it
its fine for basic multitasking. i can run vscode with spotify and discord open in the background just fine
also im guessing a 2.5inch ssd will work just fine, but im gonna look into that aswell
still i think the difference will be night and day especially in windows.
hasty crescent
Oh def