Ram upgrade for Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-50ZZ

yuvrajjohrawanshi

Hi All,

I want to upgrade the ram of my Laptop from 4GB to 8GB or 12 GB.
Will it work if I add an 8gb ram module alongside 4GB. 

I'm having difficulty in finding the correct 8GB module. Please help. 

StevenGen

yuvrajjohrawanshi said:

Hi All,

I want to upgrade the ram of my Laptop from 4GB to 8GB or 12 GB.
Will it work if I add an 8gb ram module alongside 4GB. 

I'm having difficulty in finding the correct 8GB module. Please help. 

You can upgrade your Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-52DA laptop up to a max mem capacity of 16GB DDR4 mem. The laptop has 2 Slots to install mem to, the OEM or standard RAM installed is an "A-Data Tech" 1x stick of 4GB DDR4-2133MHz so upgrading with a 1x 8GB DDR4-2133MHz is not recommended, you can upgrade it if you want? But it won’t be dual channel and won’t work to what this laptop is designed for. Also, this laptop can also take DDR4-2400MHz RAM as I wouldn’t go to any higher speed RAM, you could run into problems.

You will be much better off to buy a kit of 2x sticks of the same capacity (not exceeding 16GB RAM) from the same manufacturer, same speed and timing e.g. a kit of 2x 8GB DDR4-2133MHz or DDR4-2400MHz, I wouldn’t go to any higher speed RAM, you could run into problems. This will give you “Dual Channel RAM” which is the most affective and speedy RAM to have. Corsair are a good brand that you can look at their DDR4-2133MHz RAM or DDR4-2400MHz RAM. 

aphanic

I agree with @StevenGen here in that it's much better to get matching sticks than to try to find a companion for the one you have. It's perfectly possible, but it can be complicated because oftentimes the sticks that come with laptops aren't off the shelf parts but made expressly for the machine manufacturer, which makes matching it that much difficult to find one that matches (although memory controllers are somewhat permissive these days).

However, I would not recommend you try to match your current stick with a DDR4-2400 one, mainly because you won't know its timings at 2133 MHz, which is what the memory controller of your processor expects. Timings at other frequencies than the ones the sticks are rated for are not advertised, hell you can't even be sure that there'd be a profile for it to run a X MHz (2133 is a common frequency so you can count that there's a profile for it though).

Here's a guide that could help you on your search and understanding of it all, but if at all possible, find a matching set of DDR4-2133 MHz and use that instead of the one you have: https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/608352/guide-how-to-find-out-if-you-can-upgrade-the-ram-and-which-one-you-need

Jackie55

download the scanner from www.crucial.com it will tell you what RAM you have installed and any upgrade to can get at the right price.

aphanic

Jackie55 said:

download the scanner from www.crucial.com it will tell you what RAM you have installed and any upgrade to can get at the right price.

Stop recommending that thing to people, not only it is inaccurate, like stating that I have 4 GB soldered when I don't, but also suggests me to upgrade to a slower SSD for example, Crucial branded of course.

If it were actually accurate and brand agnostic it might have a pass by my book, but as it stands it's not worthy allow the collection of all the details of ones system for the purpose of an "upgrade". Which, as per their terms (which you have to accept and should read), may not even be accurate nor secure.

Hell, they even fail to comply with GDPR when downloaded from an European country and don't even disclose what data they collect from ones machine, whether you read their terms in the US version or in any country over here (it's just a translation of what the US terms say). Might as well send them a request for data under GPDR and see what they have to say.