A515-45-R1BF .. 20, 24 GB maximum ram or something else entirely? and compatible ram sticks?

I'm guessing this is one of those situations where you already know the answer to your own question yet you're desperately hoping you're wrong :)

I found myself hoping I could drop a 32 GB stick of ram into my laptop and enjoy the benefits…

Said laptop in question is the “Acer Laptop Aspire 5 AMD Ryzen 7 5000 Series 5700U ” model number A515-45-R1BF .. a wise person on this forum said to use the crucial system scanner downloadable tool type thing and it said that it supports a maximum of 20 GB of ram .. which is interesting because the newegg description says it supports up to 24 GB of ram (still less than I would have hoped), see

https://www.newegg.com/pure-silver-acer-aspire-5-a515-45-r1bf-home-personal/p/N82E16834360112?Item=N82E16834360112

and click on the “specs” tab

Although 24 GB would be better than 20 GB if crucial system scanner is telling the truth (hopefully it's not?)

I guess if I have to I'll grab the 16 GB crucial stick that crucial is suggesting although even there I have my doubts.. I'm doubtful because the crucial system scannner is stating that I should install a crucial stick of ram with a speed of 2400 speed .. honestly I'd prefer to plug the cheaper 3200 speed 16 GB ram stick amazon is sellling in there and just hope that the acer works with it and just downgrades itself to the lower speed (sold and shipped by amazon directly so much better return policy too)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C511GQH/?coliid=I2BZ3NDER6WTNA&colid=LRYM2128IT1F&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

In case anyone's wondering why this maniac wants 32 GB of ram on his laptop :) .. well it's actually for my daughter who has a LOT of stuff open and running all at once on her laptop

Anyone have any thoughts? is the 16 GB stick of ram really the way to go, no chance of the laptop recognizing a 32 GB stick of ram?

Accepted answers

brummyfan2

Hi,

You can upgrade up to 24GB(8GB onboard+16GB) with a DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM module, Crucial 3200MHz module in your link will be fine.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53447727

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/45929087

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Andrepartthree

found the ram stick the crucial system scanner is suggesting.. more expensive and sadly sold by a 3rd party amazon seller, I much prefer sold and shipped by amazon due to their generous return policy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019FRBHZ0/?coliid=I2WQIQQEIS4XQU&colid=LRYM2128IT1F&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Andrepartthree

a bit more info.. the crucial system scanner says the removable 8 GB stick of ram in the laptop (8 GB of ram is also soldered in there seperately so that cannot be modified for 16 GB total as per the current configuration before potential upgrades) is an 8 GB stick of Hynix ram speed 3200 model number HMAA1GS6CJR6N-XN .. and yes :) I've run the crucial system scanner twice same results each time

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.. the installed hynix stick of ram is 3200 speed but the crucial system scanner is recommending I install a 2400 speed stick of ram instead?!?

brummyfan2

Hi,

You can upgrade up to 24GB(8GB onboard+16GB) with a DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM module, Crucial 3200MHz module in your link will be fine.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53447727

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/45929087

Shvitzer2000

I want to do this with my Vero

Andrepartthree

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1182720#Comment_1182720

thank you so much I can see from all your posts you are an expert so this reassurance is incredibly .. well, reassuring ( I know, a poet I am not :P ) .. thanks again :)

Andrepartthree

hopefully I'm allowed to link this.. are you asking how to do it ? I found this video to be crazy helpful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQX3GNQLskU

you can also do a search on youtube for “Cadillac Computer Center upgrade acer aspire a1055-45” .. the video above is for the A15-55 model but I found it to be very similar to the insides of my A15-45 laptop as far as the video

Personally I'd order the blue guitar picks he links in the video, at eight dollars it's worth it to avoid doing what I did and go at it with a flat head metal screwdriver.. I think I got lucky and didn't damage the first of these two laptops I purchased for my son but now that I think about it probably not the smartest thing for me to do (though after getting the hinge open with the pick maybe you could carefully use the metal head screwdriver to push on a hinge/tab type thing to pop it open as long as you can see the insides of the laptop and you know you're not jabbing anything with it)

There were some complaints on amazon about the enclosure he mentioned running hot so you could try this aluminum one instead maybe if you decide to upgrade the m2 drive ?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RVC6F9Y/?coliid=IR4PE4WA8XAT0&colid=LRYM2128IT1F&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Alternately .. and btw I've heard a lot of good things about Macrium Free edition which you could download and use to run backups of Windows (hopefully onto a second hard drive you installed like in the video above) .. you could also use it to create a backup image of Windows, use a usb thumbdrive (even a cheap usb 2.0 stick , 16 GB or bigger will do the trick) to create macrium recovery/bootable media, configure bios to boot from the usb drive then restore the windows image onto the new m2 drive if you decide to upgrade to a bigger one. I've heard a lot of people are happy about how well this worked even with Windows 11.