Hey guys this is Eddie the Magic Monk. Today we're going to talk about how to
upgrade RAM on your PC so the first thing is why do we want to upgrade Ram
well it will actually speed up your computer tremendously if you have
multiple applications running at once so for example you might be browsing the
internet and while you're browsing the internet you could be listening to music
you could have Microsoft Word opening at the same time if you're doing a research
project and you're browsing the net and typing things that you see from the
internet into Microsoft Word you could probably be talking to someone at the
same time via Skype you could have a game of chess running in the background
or something like that so most people would already have multiple applications
running at once not to mention that virus scanners or
anything like that there are all applications running in the background
so it's not often that after a while your computer will slow down as you
install more programs so therefore if you don't have much RAM your computer
will slow down quite a bit now some people have a bit of trouble visualizing
what RAM does for your computer so let's imagine a scenario where you're an
author writing a book by hand now you can think of your harddrive space as the
amount of paper you have to write on and the more paper you have obviously the
bigger your story can get and that's very important if you want to write a
very big novel but if you want to write faster then how much paper you have is
not going to make a difference and on
the other hand what you need is RAM which you can think of as thinking space
which is in your head another word for that I guess is brain
capacity so the more brain capacity you have or the more thinking space you have
you've got more room to work with in your head and the story is going to come
out a lot faster so that's what RAM is so let's get to the next stage okay the
next thing you want to do is download this program called Belarc Advisor
because we need to know a couple of things about our computer that's going
to help us decide our what RAM and how much RAM we should buy so this is the
Belarc advisor website go to free download and just click download and you
should be able to save the file to your computer and then once you have
downloaded it make sure you run it install it and run it which brings us to
our next step deciding how much RAM you need to buy and what type of RAM to buy
so make sure you use you take a look at this step quite carefully because if you
buy the wrong Ram then you won't be able to put it on your computer so in the
Belarc system advisor have a look at what type of motherboard you have and how
much RAM you already have so if we bring up the Belarc advisor computer profile
that it's generated the first thing you can see is it tells you what type of
motherboards you have under main circuit board so I have an AsRock H61M/U3S3
so that is the type of motherboard I have and it also tells me already how
much RAM I have installed and right now I have
four gigabytes of RAM and you can also see that I have two RAM slots one slot
is already installed and the other slot is empty which is pretty cool because
that means I have an empty slot to put some more RAM on you know in order to
help me decide what type of RAM I need to buy I need to copy and paste the name
the brand name and the model number of my motherboard paste it into Google to
find the manual for my motherboard and on the manual it should tell me what
type of RAM that the motherboard supports so through Google I have found
this website which is the manual for my motherboard AsRock H61M/U3S3 and if you
scroll down to where it says memory it tells me that I can get dual channel
ddr3 memory technology and these are the megahertz of the memory which is how
fast the memory is that my motherboard can support so now the next thing I'm
going to do is shop for this memory now if you live in Australia
or in particular the eastern side of Australia then you probably know about
this website called you Mart which is what where I go to buy my computer stuff
so go to the Milton shop and then I'm going to click on memory which is
the same thing as RAM and then I'm going to click on ddr3 memory which is if you
remember what it said on my motherboard manual that it can support ddr3 memory
and notice how it says it can support
1333 megahertz so that's the RAM that I'm going to buy
so the one that I have just purchased is the G Skill 4 gigabytes ram ddr3
1333 megahertz and that cost me $47 dollars
so where it says 1 times 4 gigabyte what that means is you just get one chip of
which is 4 gigabytes in size now because from my Belarc system advisor I already
know that in my first slot I have 4,000 are sorry 4 gigabytes so I'm just
going to buy another 4 gigabyte chip and put it in my second slot and therefore
I'm going to have 8 gigabytes in total ok so now that we have completed
everything on this step we're going to go to our next step which is install the
RAM to your computer and so before we get to that make sure you find a screw
driver, turn off your computer and make
sure you shut it down completely and unplug everything and I will show you in
video what to do from there so I have unplugged everything at the back of my
computer hopefully you guys don't need a tutorial on how to do that the next
thing I'm going to do is open up the case by unscrewing some screws at the
back of my computer in the case of this case it's only these two screws that
have to come off
unscrew this and unscrew this and as you can see that means that this side of the
case can just come off so this is a pretty good case that allows you to do
that so this is the inside of my case and you can see that this is what the
motherboard is this whole board that the at the bottom of the computer that's the
motherboard and in particular this is where you install the RAM and you can
see that I already have one chip installed and the other chip is empty so
I'll show this to you from the other angle so hopefully you guys can see the
bit better now basically this is the RAM that's already been inserted and I'm
going to insert my new RAM here and really it's pretty hard to do it wrong
so I'm just going to show you guys how to do it so this is the RAM that I
purchased the g.skill RAM and I'm going to open it up now ok so having a look at
the motherboard again you can see that right now this RAM is already inserted
we're going to insert the new RAM here and you can see that on the RAM there is
the longer section and a shorter section and that's got to match the slot
on the RAM so the shorter one is on this side which is which matches that and all
you've got to do is you've got to bend the white I guess you can call a switch
Bend the white switches back so they will be at the back position until
you press this RAM in with both hands so I'm just going to push it in with both
hands and as you push it in you will see that
the wide switches will jump back in and you'll hear a click sound so as the
white switches come back in the RAM is now locked and that completes the setup
process and now you just have to close the case back together so I have turned
on my computer again and run Belarc advisor again and you will see that you
have now 8 gigabytes of memory well I do and both of my slots are now filled each
one has a 4 gig memory chip installed on it so now I have a total of 8 gigabytes
and you will probably find that everything is working a lot faster it
probably took you less time to turn the computer on and hopefully you guys will
slowly discover the benefits ok now hopefully you guys enjoy this
tutorial see you guys next time.