Acer nitro 5 an515-57-LM What the maximum size ram I want to upgrade the ram?

Hi I have the Acer nitro 5 intel i7 3060 nvidia 3060 an515-57-LM model no n20c1.

basically my question is I’m looking for the best possible upgrades for it.. I’ve read you can put m.2 chips in it what’s the bests ones to get? as so far I have only got the stock 512gb memory that came with it and 16 gb ram. Don’t want anything to much over kill but I just want something that I’m not gonna be running out of space every 2 minutes. What the maximum size ram it would take also as I want to upgrade the ram? Also what would people put in the 2.5 ssd for more memory?

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/677889/acer-nitro

The best upgrades for the M.2 drives for your AN515-57 must be the PCIe 3 x4 M.2 drives ONLY and the top drives are the Samsung 970 EVO Plus or the WD SN750 Black, so use these as your boot drive, as the 512GB boot drive that you have is probably the WD SN530 which is a very slow M.2 and not a gaming M.2, also remember that putting an extra M.2 into slot 2 for this laptop, that 2nd drive will never operate as fast as your boot drive, that is why its best to put a top and fast PCIe 3 x4 into the boot M.2 slot 1 slot.. Btw, I've done this as I've got an AN515-56 which is basically the same laptop, also, don't upgrade to PCIe 4 x4 as you will be wasting your money, as this laptop does not utilize the Gen 4 M.2 drive speeds.

With the ram Acer specifies a max capacity of 64GB 2x 32GB DDR4-xxxxMHz but and for this max 64GB capacity, they don't specify a specific ram module, so you need to do a Crucial System Scan that will tell you the appropriate ram to fit as this laptop. Also, all the ram modules that Acer specify are of DDR4-3200MHz CL22 type ram modules. like below: