Upgrading memory (ram) on Studio 1749, advice please

[JamesUK]

Currently i have 4gb of ram in my laptop, the memory inside is what it come with, the motherboard chipset is the hm55 and running an intel i5 cpu. I run a scan on crucial says it supports up to ddr-12800. my current ram is 2 x 2gb kingston ddr3-10600 cl9 ram.

my question is will i see much difference in 8gb over 4 and if so there is 3 different upgrades i have noticed that i am interested in, 2 of which are from crucial when its scanned my system and one is another i have found by looking around (and seems the faster)

they are:

Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600 CL9 memory module (I can get this for about £32)
Crucial 8GB Kit (4GBx2), 204-pin SODIMM, DDR3 PC3-12800 CL11 memory module (I can get this for about £40)
Kingston HyperX memory - 8 GB : 2 x 4 GB - SO DIMM PC3-12800 204-pin - DDR3 CL9 (I can get this for about £55)

I think the main thing which stands out is if i get the kingston one, i will be doubling my memory as well as keeping the timings (cl) the same as i have now (cl9) as well as increasing the MHZ to PC3-12800 memory instead of PC3-10600.

If i got the crucial 8gb pair thats pc3-12800 but only cl11, would i see any real difference or is the cl9 kingston worth the extra money?

Thanks for any opinions on this.

James

 

[deusexlumina]

To be honest i dont think it's a worthwhile upgrade. Considering the rest of the system you would not notice the performance difference unless you use photoshop a lot/do a lot of video editing. if you really want to upgrade, go the whole hog and get the hyperx. The middle choice is cl11 which essentially negates the mhz increase, so i'd ignore that RAM if it was me.