RAM Upgrade

jamoor · 27 Mar 2018 at 14:29

I have a PC with an Asus H81M Plus motherboard, it has a single stick of 8gb RAM installed, the RAM is corsair vengenace pro DDR 3 8GB 2133

I want to put in another 8gb but I cannot find another stick for sale.

What can I do, should I buy a 16gb kit? Although they are like £150 which seems like a lot.
Or can I do anything else? I use it for office work, but I do a lot of multi tasking hence the need for RAM

jamoor · 27 Mar 2018 at 20:58

mattyfez said:
8gb is a fair amount for office work even if multitasking, how much ram are you actually using generally?

Sometimes its upto 7gb.

jamoor · 1 Apr 2018 at 21:40

JasonM said:
Jamore, does this computer boot of a HDD?

If so then another alternative would be to enable Windows 10 Readyboost, for best results you need one of the faster USB 3 memory sticks. I've used readyboost on a computer with 32GB Ram and even on that computer performance monitor showed it working, so it will definitely give you some improvement on a 8GB machine.

Damn, I use windows 7 at work. Is there a similar feature for that?

jamoor · 1 Apr 2018 at 21:41

mrbazmondo said:
If its just for office work then I wouldn't worry about speed matching too much. More is better. It'll all run at the lowest speed of whatever you put in, which in reality will be negligible for office work.

I see, I think RAM is just hilariously expensive hence why I am finding it hard to justify the huge cost :/