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    8 GB on a Toshiba A215-S4757 running Windows 8.1?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by stitzenheimer, Oct 27, 2014.

  1. stitzenheimer

    stitzenheimer Newbie

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    I recently loaded my A215 with windows 8.1 and an Intel SSD. Now that I have a 64-bit windows to go with the 64-bit AMD chip, can I now upgrade the Ram to 8GB? If not, what is the bottleneck? I assumed that is was 32-bit Windows Vista that was the limitation.
     
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    That laptop uses DDR2 RAM which has been discontinued for a while, so finding 2 x 4 GB sticks will be not only hard, it will be prohibitively expensive. I'm not even sure that AMD CPU can actually handle 8 GB, so that is something you'll have to confirm as well.
     
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    System will only support 4GB max RAM. That chip is like 8 years old which is a lifetime in the silicon world. SSD likely won't help much either because the CPU is so slow it will be the bottleneck.
     
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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    stitzenheimer, SSD will help a lot. It seems your notebook can support 2x2GB RAM max, however it's quite cheap. If CPU is upgradeable, it's worth a try. Oh and I would never put x64 OS on that, it will work slower than x86 and consumes more RAM - you gain nothing while loosing performance. You ought to try and install x86 OS on it, and use the excessive memory not recognized by OS (the exact number depends on BIOS, but it will be between 512MB and 1GB) as a ramdisk with pagefile on it... or if it recognizes 3.5GB out of 4 I wouldn't even bother.
     
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