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Acer Aspire TOO SLOW! how to upgrade ram?!

I purchased an Acer aspire 3, A315-31-C8WK slim red design with 4gb DDR3s L (check media uploads for more specs) I am/have been looking vigorously For the right type of memory upgrade, which RAM I would need; I just purchased this laptop not even 60 to 90 days ago and other than the fact that it’s only got 4 GB ram she runs fine…

But because of such a small amount of memory she also runs like a dial-up. Should be much quicker!

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a1tarabichi  your model is maxed out a 4GB of RAM. It is actually soldered to the board and non-removable. The only upgrade to increase the speed would be a SSD drive to replace the HDD

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Soldered on to the board I noticed that… Good thing I didn’t rip it off/break it so is there any other recommendations that you can provide aside from replacing the hard drive that could bolster speed and/or in performance? Plz and thanks

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a1tarabichi not really. This is one of those models where you got what you bought. No other expansions or upgrades available.

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Don’t know if this will improve the performance or not but depending on the speed of the HDD you could try using Win 10’s readyboost feature and see if that helps at all.

If you’re going to install an SSD don’t bother with readyboost as it was designed to help improve performance with slower HDDs (<7200 rpm) when the HDD would act as extra RAM when there wasn’t enough physical RAM installed.

The laptop has a card reader so you could try inserting a 4GB SD card as extra “RAM” and if it does improve performance, leaving it permanently in there, as it is would be unobtrusive and out of the way.

Of course then you’ve lost the card reader function to use for anything else, if you need it quickly.

You could also use a USB flashdrive instead of a SD card, but I think that it would physically get in the way if left in, but it may be “faster” than a SD card depending on the SD card specs and the card reader specs

Worth a try at least

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