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My laptop has 6GB (well should be 8GB) of RAM. Having started to use Adobe Premiere Pro to do video edits sometimes in the preview window playback lags behind a bit where hand movements are late and such.
I spoke to tech support at Adobe and they suggested I don't have enough memory, and I should get at least 16GB for videos in 1080HD.
I've tried to open the case to look but currently don't have the right sized screwdriver for such a small screw, does anyone know what size I would need? If I can get the case open I can just get a new 16GB RAM stick (I doubt its got an expansion slot) to replace. 32GB is overkill isn't it?
Also apparently you can use the readyboost feature from a USB stick to boost memory as well? Is this a better way as I only need more RAM when editing. This guy explains how to do it
Is it ok to do this or will it mess up my laptop?
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It's also possible that if your laptop is a thin-and-light type from the last 7 or 8 years, the RAM is soldered to the motherboard so you won't be able to upgrade that way either...depends entirely on the model, though (we'll be able to look it up if you tell us what it is).
What do you mean by "6GB (well should be 8GB)", though?
OP - you just need to get a set of smaller screwdrivers, they have them on Amazon for about a tenner. The screws are never in very tight. Best to find out if you have a spare ram slot first if you can.
It's a HP Pavilion laptop model 15-cw1507sa serial no 5CD0033GGX
A USB stick will be much slower than any sort of actual RAM.
Yeah I used to have a set but I can't find where they are! Will have a hunt on Amazon though and pray that its not soldered into the motherboard.
I will add this was a very long song to edit a video for (5 minutes). I've done shorter edits around 1 minute and they came out ok although a couple had some lag.
Yeah I had doubts on whether using RAM from a USB would be a good idea and this only confirms it haha.
Now, how much more do I need? Another 8? Can you do 16 and 8 to make it 24? 32 might be overkill but nice to have that extra buffer.
The extra 8 from 24 to 32GB usually doesn't achieve al that much as you are starting to get diminishing returns. The old rule we used to work on was that each doubling of the RAM achieves half as much as the previous doubling. 1GB -> 2GB HUGE! 2GB -> 4GB Big! 4GB -> 8GB achieves quite a lot. 8GB -> 16GB is quite nice to have. And so on.
Just hoping after all this it'll actually fix the problem with the video editor as well.
I'd probably go for this.
Should probably get those screwdrivers first to look inside haha.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06444626
...and here's HP support confirming that the max supported RAM is 16GB:
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/RAM-and-Storage-Upgrade-HP-15-cw1507sa/td-p/7725396
The manual/support pages will tell you max RAM, the type supported, and whether it's single slot, two slots, or one soldered and one slot etc.
Further help can be given to clone your existing drive to a new SSD if you choose that (highly recommended) option.
It wasn't meant to be that harsh, just a statement of fact. With anything like this, though, that's technical but regular/simple, the best place to start is with the manufactuer's support site, grab the manual, and look it up because it will almost certainly tell you, and tell you more reliably then (some of the) people on a guitar forum. Then come for confirmation if needs be.
Otherwise you end up flailing around trying to work out who knows what they're talking about, and who doesn't, and getting lost in a long discussion about something that's basically lego.
Why?! It's the easiest bit to upgrade, next to the drive.