hey emma remember what i taught you about ram
do you mean the sheep with horns no the computer ram oh yeah
hey guys welcome back to your channel so uh recently my computers have been kind of slow
for me processing 4k video so i decided to pick up a new laptop a gaming laptop actually to do
more video editing with and the reason why i went with a gaming laptop because of the video card so
i actually picked up this uh dell g5 15-inch laptop and it's a gaming laptop and the one of
the main reasons why i picked it up was because it came with an nvidia gx 1660 ti video card so
that one of the better video cards especially for this model i think is the top one you can actually
get with this model and what that brings it also gets you thunderbolt and then 3.1 gen2 usbc so
i kind of needed all that or i wanted all that i decided to go with an i5 processor it's a 10th
gen i5 i bought this in july of 2020 and it's the latest generation intel i5 i was thinking about
going i7 or even raisin but i think it was too expensive it was like an extra 250 300 premium
over this one so i decided just stick with i5 i've been happy with my i5 main thing i really needed
was the video card and that video card comes with six gigabytes of memory already this one was on a
deal i think it was 842 dollars when i bought it it didn't come with that grade of memory
i think it only came with eight gigabytes of memory actually gonna upgrade it today i'm gonna
have the girls help me with that and it also came with a 256 ssd with not enough for storing 4k so i
decided i'm going to put in a one terabyte storage drive so i could have some room to store videos on
here when i need to i got the three cell battery version which is only 51 watt hours but i don't
really need the battery for this because most of the time there's gonna be docked on monitors if
you get the four cell 68 watt hour one you won't have the room for the ss the extra battery uh
space is where this slot would have been for the regular ssd drive so that's the compromise you get
for a bigger bat after i bought this a week and a half after i took delivery they actually went
on sale for 774 dollars so i ended up calling them back and they price matched me there was an extra
50 coupon but they wouldn't give me the coupon because it was a price match from an old order
on top of that i got the american express 120 deal which added to that the only thing is i had to pay
tax i think most of the united states with dell you have to pay tax because they have some kind of
presence in every state so overall i think i got a good deal for what it is as far as the ports go on
this it comes with the thunderbolt port just that one usbc thunderbolt it comes with one usb super
speed on this side on this side i was surprised to find this regular usb 2.0 i mean it's 20 20.
nobody really uses 2.0 anymore so i don't know why they have 2.0 on this side
and then they got the it's got the sd card reader i'm hoping it's the fast sd card reader
but i don't know i didn't really read the specs on the sd card because i know that makes a big
difference when you're transferring large 4k piles over here you also got display port and
even though this has a thunderbolt usb c you can't charge through here just because this thing
requires a massive 240 watt power supply which is crazy but it's then again it's a gaming laptop
it's really a desktop replacement laptop that's the reason why it doesn't charge thunderbolt so
you'll have to have a your regular dell charger plugged in while you also run it
through thunderbolt for display or for your hub i was planning to do display port multi-chaining
or daisy chaining for my monitors because that's the kind of monitors i have so we'll get started
on the upgrade on the ram and the ssd now so to open this up there's 10 screws on the back up here
so i've got my little helpers over here today that's going to help me they're
going to unscrew the cover so we can get inside and change the ram you guys ready to help yeah
so i'm using my trusty precision screwdriver set this thing's got like every single bit
and everything i ever need to take apart any kind of electronics so
first thing we're going to do is we're going to go in here and just unscrew it right here right emma
we got all the screws off these back ones right here i don't think they pop out
they just kind of take this cover off you gotta actually pop it with a little flat
panel popper i don't have one right now so i'm just gonna end up using a little card
i had so you just kind of tuck it in between there kind of and then just go along the edge
now that i got everything released you kind of gently lift it up and look for that ribbon cable
right here back here so got to make sure
you don't want to disturb this ribbon cable i'm just going to end up leaving it and just
flapping it over so that way i can work with all this area right here so getting in here i just
want to make sure everything's put back kind of out of the way so this looks like a speaker
just kind of clip it back in because it fell out of place when we were taking the thing off and
yeah i'm not sure exactly what this ribbon cable is it kind of goes to this lower spot here
up here is the hinge you got to be careful up here too with the hinge i know uh early models of this
had some problems with the hinge but overall we're in here now i've got my samsung qvo this is their
budget line their performance line is the evo so this thing is only like 100 bucks for one terabyte
so it's a good budget hard drive or ssd for these purposes of just storage i'm not running an
os or anything on it so and it looks like it fits right in here somehow so we'll figure that out
in a second the ram is under here this unit can support up to 32 gigabytes of ram so i've got that
g skills ram that i bought i think i paid like 115 bucks for this so i opted for the g skills because
they had the 3 000 megahertz version i believe the 10th generation i5 supports up to 29.33
so this is just a little bit over the maximum that it supports so it's perfect for what i need it for
what it came with was uh just basically the minimum you need for this processor came with two
four gigabyte stick which with this day and age i mean this thing is a pc2933 or 2933 megahertz
which i don't know who would use a four gigabyte with that kind of speed ddr4 these days but
obviously you know they still manufacture it so i'm just going to go ahead and stick this in here
make sure it's fully seated in there you just press down on it and it just clips right in
that's good right there i'll put these guys away
maybe i'll use them somewhere else who knows but eight gigabytes not very useful in 2020 especially
ddr4 if you're in the market for ddr4 you're usually up in the 16 to 32 gigabyte range anyways
so as far as this guy goes i need to find out how exactly i'm going to connect this and you know how
dang do i need to get my own plug crap i might i don't see anything where
i mean physically it fits in here but i don't see where i can plug it up there's no ribbon
cable there's no uh slot so dang this sucks for a while i have to do some more research on this so
i did a little bit of research and i found out there's no easy way to upgrade the ssd in here
without buying one of dell's proprietary heat sinks and brackets and in this particular
configuration that i have even though i have the room to add an ssd i can't have my ssd with what
i have existing now i believe if you want an ssd you actually have to have
a a special adapter that fits up here on the top section where the drive plugs in and then
you need another bracket over here and then you don't have the two m2 slots that this one has
so the second m2 on that setup has a ribbon that goes over to another plug in here the only way
i can upgrade here is if i use the second ssd slot so the first ssd slot right now is an m2
it's a 2230 so it's a shorter one and i can fit a 2280 right here on these two spots you
know there's a screw there and a screw here and it plugs right in there even though the m2 will plug
into there i still need to buy one of these copper heatsink things from dell to fit it in there and
bolt it down with this laptop being so new i mean it's august of 2020 right now this thing came out
maybe a month or two months ago and it's not easy to find that except directly from dell i've looked
on ebay on amazon i haven't found it so when i do find it and i find a deal on an ssd i'm going to
end up upgrading that slot so right now i'm just going to run with 256 store my stuff on my nas
and work through that as far as that ribbon cable you got to be careful when you take it out it does
the blue light underneath the bottom of this case so you just got to be careful when you
take it apart that there's no easy way to put it back in try not to take it out when you're
doing this so at least i got the ram upgraded on this video and you know i'll deal with that
ssd later and then this guy i just have to put it in my desktop or one of my other pcs
so thanks for watching all the way to the end of this video guys so you saw that i got
that memory all up and running booted it up it shows up as 32 gigabytes on this machine so
everything's working good now i just got to find that bracket for the ssd so i install an m2
i'm probably gonna go like with a one terabyte maybe even a two terabyte depending if i can
find a good deal on a two terabyte when i end up doing that but i'm i'm gonna
be patient on that one and just wait for a good deal because i need that bracket and
who knows when that's gonna be really available from dell that's not gonna cost me an arm and a
leg so anyways uh thanks for watching the end of this video guys if you liked it give it a
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