Take this name and include the keywords ‘maximum RAM amount’ and you’ll generally find good information on how much total RAM you should be aiming for. This can be found by visiting your computer specs page: Control Panel\System and Security\System Generally you’ll want to know the maximum amount of RAM your computer can take. Since the computer type is a laptop, that means it can take DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM RAM. But in the case of RAM that runs at 2400 MHz, I can know for sure it’s DDR4 laptop ram. Sometimes this number isn’t conclusive since more than one type of RAM can have the same speed. You can find a list of ‘speeds’ on our DDR RAM Types page. Many laptops have a maximum of 16 GB of Ram though some go up to as much as 64 GB.Īdditionally, most of the time the Windows Task Manager > Performance > Memory area will also indicate a ‘speed’ of RAM. Though you’ll need to be careful since some RAM isn’t the only ‘choke point’ that a computer can have. This means you can definitively purchase another 2 memory modules to upgrade that computer computer. If for example a computer has 2 of 4 slots used. This many times can be enough for identifying which type of memory to upgrade to.įor example, if a computer lists 2 memory ‘banks’, that computer probably has soldered RAM. You’ll also see the type of Desktop computer RAM by the Mhz at which your RAM runs. Here you’ll see how much RAM you have, if your computer has “slots” for RAM you’ll find how many your computer has and how many your computer has used. Click Performance and you’ll see on the left hand side a bunch of numbers for CPU, Memory, Disk, etc.
Here you’ll see several tabs starting with Process and followed by “ Performance“.
Many times this comes up minimized so you’ll want to ‘expand to full view’. If you click Ctr+Alt+Del you’ll get the Task Manager.