#v ram

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iron mountain
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how do i upgrade my v ram without spending money i have 8gb ram and intel graphic card

haughty root
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What do you have exactly? If you have an Intel Arc GPU with 8GB of Vram, that's not upgradable. Your system RAM is however. Just look up its frequency and timings and buy a matching kit

iron mountain
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um lemme check

haughty root
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But upgrading vram is not possible. If you mean extending the amount of RAM that is dedicated to the iGPU, I don't know honestly

iron mountain
iron mountain
haughty root
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Can you look at task manager to see how much vram is currently reserved for the GPU? You can see it under see more and then tje tab performance and then the GPU

iron mountain
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how do i?

haughty root
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But honestly I don't know how to allocate more to the iGPU but I'm pretty sure that it's possible

iron mountain
haughty root
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Now go to the second tab that says performance

iron mountain
haughty root
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How much gets used in-game? 4gb doesn't seem that small.. it might not be a vram issue but rather that you have an i3 that your performance is bad

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Cuz that's only a dual core CPU that you have which nowadays isn't much anymore for games

iron mountain
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oh

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but like how much v ram do i have?

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but here it says i dont have enough video memory

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im sorry i dont speak much tech language

harsh night
iron mountain
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oh

harsh night
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you're using an IGPU

iron mountain
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oh

harsh night
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so your system memory is being used for it

iron mountain
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is there any to convert to gpu without getting a new pc

haughty root
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Yeah, looks like you need a GPU then because you do meet the vram requirement, it's just dedicated system memory, so it just doesn't get recognized as vram

haughty root
harsh night
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if you don't increase system memory capacity. you will have a crappier time with it

iron mountain
harsh night
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you're running your system on 8gb of ram

iron mountain
harsh night
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well you just need to increase what system ram you have

iron mountain
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oh

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nvm

harsh night
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usually in the form of swapping ram stick with greater capacity

haughty root
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Go to the kingston website, type in your laptop model number and it will show you compatible ram options

harsh night
haughty root
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But you will have to open your laptop to upgrade the RAM

iron mountain
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oh

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but will it like improve it so i can play forza

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like i dont have a gpu i have a igpu

harsh night
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he just needs to see if it's using a single stiock of ram currently with a spare slot free, and could add another stuck matching the specs of his current ram

harsh night
iron mountain
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so like if i incrase ram will i have like more vram iknow i technailly dont but like will i be able to

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this is my pc

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i got it 4 years ago

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so it it upgradbale on a laptop or not

harsh night
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but in the bios settings of the the laptop it may allow you to specify to be able to use more dedicated system memory as pseudo -vram

harsh night
iron mountain
harsh night
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yes that can happen

iron mountain
harsh night
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i would suggest checking if it has 2 ram slots first

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then from that you can decide either a matching stick or a complete swap out with a kit

iron mountain
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hm i cant like disammble it but lets say it doesnt could get a ram stick that have like 16gb on 1 stick

haughty root
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Yes, there are even 32GB sticks out there

iron mountain
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so how much do i need to upgrage it to

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no matter how many slots it has

harsh night
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you could but if it's using 2 sodimm slots in the laptop and only 1 is in use, then you either get another 8gb stick that matches what's on there or you you can do a clean swap out with a 2x16gb kit

iron mountain
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so 16gb ram total

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no matter the slots

harsh night
haughty root
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I'd suggest going for a 16GB stick if there's one slot only, if there's another slot, get another 8GB stick. If the RAM is soldered on, well, you're screwed xD

harsh night
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without full make and model

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no clear suggestion can be made

iron mountain
haughty root
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It should be like HP xxxxbook 123 Gx, numbers and x's are placeholders here

iron mountain
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if it soldered on ill get a new pc in 3 years if not ill upgarge to 2000

harsh night
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no point in just getting a stick of ram and finding out you can't do anything with it

iron mountain
harsh night
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most likely that has a soldered ram only on it

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in which case, no upgradability

iron mountain
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GOD DAMIT

harsh night
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presumably that's a thin and light laptop

iron mountain
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yhea it is ive connected it to external display

harsh night
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means no upgradability

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no point even in trying to increase the ram on it

iron mountain
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what pc would u reccomend for gaming that have atleats 2gb v ram and a laptop

harsh night
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ones that are not thin n' lights

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it also means you need some strength to hold them

iron mountain
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bruh

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ok

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anyspefic model or company

harsh night
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lenovo ideapad 3 gaming/legion 5

iron mountain
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but also not to costy

harsh night
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you can increase the ram on those and upgrade storage on them

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and a second hand one can be gotten quite cheap

iron mountain
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for like 500 bucks

harsh night
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also have their own dedicated gpu's on them

iron mountain
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ok

harsh night
iron mountain
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500 dollars which is 10,000 here

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south africa

harsh night
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so 10k rand then

iron mountain
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yha but it will be better if the pcis less than dat

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ill prob get a new one in 3 years

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alright thanks for ur help

feral girder
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VRAM is part of the GPU. You cannot upgrade VRAM without changing GPUs.

iron mountain
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but i have a igpu

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igpu

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so are igpu's replacble

feral girder
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AH. Well iGPUs are typically capped at 2GB maximum with dynamic allocation. Many computer manufacturers limit this to 512MB.

The only way to get a different iGPU is to get a new compatible CPU that has a better graphics core in it, but even then it still has the same limitation on it.

iron mountain
feral girder
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Maximum typically.

harsh night
harsh night
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can do higher with an amd igpu from their apu's

feral girder
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Well it isn't AMD, sooooo

iron mountain
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i have 0.128 gb of v ram

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....

feral girder
iron mountain
feral girder
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Nope. This appears to be in a laptop.

harsh night
iron mountain
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alrigiht then

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new pc in 3 years prob i better start saving up

feral girder
harsh night
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which sucks more so as it's a thin n' light laptop

iron mountain
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sighhhh

harsh night
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plan to game on laptops like that is a big no and alotta disappoint

iron mountain
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bro i got this for non gaming use but now i plan to game on it

royal shadow
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You can add Virtual Ram to your system, that can improve performance, unused ram usage gets pushed on to your SSD and if its needed it gets reloaded into the RAM

iron mountain
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i also got a macbook for schhol recently so i cant afford smth elese

iron mountain
feral girder
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That will not work at all. The RAM allocation is entirely different for those two processes.

iron mountain
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oh

feral girder
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The system will only allocate available RAM to the iGPU. It will not kick active code out of memory to retrain to the iGPU.

harsh night
royal shadow
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oh youre talking over Vram my bad...

iron mountain
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okkkk

feral girder
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Don't plan on gaming on this laptop unless you use something like GeForce Now cloud gaming. Not happening.

iron mountain
feral girder
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Then your only option is cloud gaming.

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GeForce Now or Stadia.

iron mountain
harsh night
harsh night
iron mountain
iron mountain
harsh night
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something that you could play on but your internet needs to be really stable and solid to use it

iron mountain
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oh

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what if i use etherent

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i have 5g wifi

feral girder
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5G wireless should be stable enough as long as you have the bandwidth.

iron mountain
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alright

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so

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thaks