My Nitro N50-650 computer is around 2 years old. I am seeing some slowdowns happening with some of the complex database stuff I'm doing with large collections of media. It came with 8 GB of RAM, but the performance monitor is lately showing the RAM is always at 6.6 GB used or higher with 7.8 GB as the usable RAM capacity. When things really get going, the RAM graph is bumping along the top of the 7.8 GB line quite often. Here is the installed RAM type from a Crucial scan tool:
DDR4-3200 • CL=22 • NON-ECC • UDIMM • 288-pin • 1.2V • 2Rx8/1Rx8 • PC4-25600
It has been more than 10 years since I've needed to add RAM to a PC or laptop and I'm not sure how much has changed in the last 10 years. So for this computer the questions are:
How do I find out the info for RAM changes/upgrades for this computer so I know what it can and cannot accept? I need to know how many DIMM slots there are and how rigid the rules are in terms of installing matching pairs or matching quads of DIMMs ONLY. After so many years passing, I have no idea if RAM slots still have all the restrictions they used to have or whether things have gotten loosey-goosey over the years… for example, could I use different capacity DIMMs in each slot, or is that still "illegal"? Is there a way to know if the RAM I have installed now is a single DIMM or a pair of 4GB DIMMs without opening the computer? (it is really hard to extricate this computer to open it up because of all the connections and location. If there are only 2 DIMM slots on the motherboard, and one slot has an 8 GB DIMM in it, can I put a 16 GB DIMM in the other slot? Or would I be forced to install another 8 GB DIMM in the second slot unless I change BOTH DIMMs to, say, 16 GB.
