Upgrading Ram on Aspire R7
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Hi chris
could you please check these 4 that i found from what you said, can you tell me which one is the best quality and most or the right size for the R7, if you had to pick of these which on would you go for??
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The first and last ones are best. It really doesn't make much difference, but when investigating RAM I check:
Cas Latency (CL) - lower is better. In these 8 is the lowest you'll find, 9 is good, 11 is poor.
Timings, like 9-9-9-24. Lower is better.
Power usage, which usually requires googling the name plus the words "power usage." The Crucial and the second Corsair had the best timings and lowest power usage.
But the difference in system performance is almost unnoticeable. In reviews the timings have basically no noticeable performance benefit, and between 0 and 7 watts of power usage difference - almost meaningless.
Windows 8 machines are fussy about booting - there's a thing on them called UEFI Secure Boot that can prevent you from booting if you don't preserve the OS that came with the machine. That's part of why you want to just make an Acer Recovery Disk. That dumps your specific copy of Win8 onto the recovery drive. Then you swap in the SSD, boot from recovery and install your copy of Win8 back onto your new SSD drive. Nuisance UEFI issues averted.
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ok thanks for that reply chris. helped me a lot so as long i use the recovery disk then after i can just install that on new SSD drive then load the new win 8 copy, i presume if i do it this way then i can use a win 8 pro upgrade CD? no need for the full version right?
also regarding making a recovery disk, how is that done, is it a simple process?
does windows have an option to do that or is it hard?
thanks again lisa.
p.s you could be amazing and put a video of upgrading RAM and SSD on DVD for everyone to see.
i would pay 60$ for it, rather pay you and do it myself then pay someone here that is charging double that and might break my laptop, being in dubai there is no way to control the quality of work being done.
life is hard for a woman that is not good that upgrading laptops :-)
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your in deep trouble Mr.
i almost bought the ram you suggested to find out after hours of searching its 204 pin that is needed not 240 pin.
the slot is 204 Sodim!!!!!
why didnt you tell me, the normal 240pin stick wont work?
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