1 00:00:06,420 --> 00:00:10,380 - [Dave] Hello, Dave here with a RAM upgrade video. 2 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:12,180 I'm going to upgrade the memory 3 00:00:12,180 --> 00:00:17,010 on my main workstation, the AV Editor Computer 4 00:00:17,010 --> 00:00:19,410 which is what I'm working at right now. 5 00:00:19,410 --> 00:00:23,973 Currently this has 16 gigabytes of DDR4-2133 RAM. 6 00:00:26,910 --> 00:00:30,930 It's installed as four sticks, four gigabytes each. 7 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:34,173 I'm going to upgrade to 32 gigabytes of RAM. 8 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:36,480 The reason for the upgrade 9 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,336 is because I'm starting to get real close to the maximum 10 00:00:40,336 --> 00:00:43,200 when running virtual machines, 11 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,470 conducting webinars and editing large videos. 12 00:00:46,470 --> 00:00:49,860 And you can see this in the task manager that's open now. 13 00:00:49,860 --> 00:00:54,420 Right now, I'm using 13, just about 14 gigabytes of RAM 14 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:56,310 and only two gigabytes available. 15 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:58,230 And you can see that up here as well. 16 00:00:58,230 --> 00:01:00,300 So look, the line is all the way up here. 17 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:01,133 Not good. 18 00:01:01,133 --> 00:01:03,330 We don't wanna really be that high. 19 00:01:03,330 --> 00:01:08,190 For best performance, I like to keep the in use RAM 20 00:01:08,190 --> 00:01:10,713 at about half of the total. 21 00:01:11,610 --> 00:01:13,530 I mean, you know, we're still functioning here, 22 00:01:13,530 --> 00:01:15,030 but I like to do that. 23 00:01:15,030 --> 00:01:17,460 That's kind of a rule of thumb. 24 00:01:17,460 --> 00:01:19,590 Now I'm running a lot of stuff right now, 25 00:01:19,590 --> 00:01:21,960 including virtual machines 26 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:25,320 which you don't see in the processes tab. 27 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,190 You don't see that there. 28 00:01:26,190 --> 00:01:27,690 You have to go to your performance tab 29 00:01:27,690 --> 00:01:31,200 to actually see all the memory that's being used. 30 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:32,760 And there's other ways to do it as well. 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,187 Other tools in Windows, and also third party tools, right? 32 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:41,100 So we want to increase the total 33 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:44,040 so that we're doing, when I'm doing all these things 34 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,530 I don't get real close or use up all the RAM, 35 00:01:46,530 --> 00:01:48,993 and then we run into system performance issues. 36 00:01:50,370 --> 00:01:54,030 Now I just ran a pass mark performance test, 37 00:01:54,030 --> 00:01:55,593 the memory mark test. 38 00:01:56,460 --> 00:02:00,543 And here's all the results from that, which I've saved. 39 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,730 Once we do the upgrade, I'm going to check. 40 00:02:05,730 --> 00:02:08,460 I'm gonna do another test and compare it 41 00:02:08,460 --> 00:02:10,023 and compare the baseline. 42 00:02:10,950 --> 00:02:14,346 And you can see the total score here is 2681, not bad. 43 00:02:14,346 --> 00:02:18,870 That actually puts us at the 89th percentile worldwide 44 00:02:18,870 --> 00:02:21,090 which you may or may not be interested in, 45 00:02:21,090 --> 00:02:22,110 but total score here, 46 00:02:22,110 --> 00:02:25,530 and here's the other information which we'll compare. 47 00:02:25,530 --> 00:02:26,363 Now it's interesting 48 00:02:26,363 --> 00:02:30,600 because I installed this RAM three years ago on this system. 49 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,260 So it kinda gives you an idea of how much RAM really changes 50 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:36,923 over the course of several years. 51 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:41,013 Of course, it was somewhat cutting edge when I installed it. 52 00:02:42,390 --> 00:02:43,500 All right. 53 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:46,450 Now, I also ran HW monitor 54 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,600 which you can see here to check the temperature 55 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,880 of each of the sticks of RAM. 56 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,200 And here's the four sticks. 57 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,510 Generally around 39, 40 degrees. 58 00:02:57,510 --> 00:02:59,103 This one runs a little cooler, 59 00:02:59,940 --> 00:03:03,420 and that's under load right now. 60 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:04,710 So that's what we want. 61 00:03:04,710 --> 00:03:08,160 And I'm gonna test that again under the similar load 62 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,963 later after we do the install. 63 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,480 Okay, now the problem is that this RAM 64 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,850 is 2133 megahertz RAM. 65 00:03:17,850 --> 00:03:20,460 The problem is that that is not available now 66 00:03:20,460 --> 00:03:23,520 without losing your life savings. 67 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,910 So for example here, here's the RAM that I installed. 68 00:03:26,910 --> 00:03:27,780 This is the RAM. 69 00:03:27,780 --> 00:03:31,800 2133 megahertz, four gigabyte sticks. 70 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,940 I installed four of these when I first built the computer 71 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:40,260 for 16 gig total, and the total cost was $172. 72 00:03:41,370 --> 00:03:43,110 Now we have some guys out there 73 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:45,750 that are trying to rip everybody off 74 00:03:45,750 --> 00:03:50,750 for this older RAM charging $179 per stick, right? 75 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,050 So I can't find the 2133 megahertz. 76 00:03:55,050 --> 00:03:58,353 So I decided to go one step higher and go at 2,400. 77 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,050 So it's something to think about. 78 00:04:01,050 --> 00:04:04,110 You may wanna load up on RAM when you first build 79 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:07,138 because later the RAM might be hard to find 80 00:04:07,138 --> 00:04:09,540 or it might cost you an arm and a leg. 81 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:11,550 You might lose your shirt on this deal. 82 00:04:11,550 --> 00:04:14,040 And I don't wanna do that, right? 83 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:16,110 Now I understand you're probably under a budget. 84 00:04:16,110 --> 00:04:17,880 I was under a budget too. 85 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,400 So I did the 16 gig. 86 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,230 RAM is volatile though, 87 00:04:22,230 --> 00:04:25,770 not just the contents of RAM, but the prices are volatile. 88 00:04:25,770 --> 00:04:28,170 Now planning is essential. 89 00:04:28,170 --> 00:04:32,820 The first thing you wanna do is decide what can we use? 90 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:34,620 Will it work? 91 00:04:34,620 --> 00:04:38,160 Right, so we want to go to our motherboard documentation, 92 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:43,160 and this computer uses a Asus X99-A motherboard. 93 00:04:43,980 --> 00:04:46,380 We'll go to the specifications here. 94 00:04:46,380 --> 00:04:49,350 Click on that, and make this a little bigger. 95 00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:50,220 All right. 96 00:04:50,220 --> 00:04:54,570 And for memory, it says we can have eight DIMMs. 97 00:04:54,570 --> 00:04:56,883 There's eight slots altogether of DDR4, 98 00:04:58,617 --> 00:05:00,003 a maximum of 64 gigabytes. 99 00:05:01,650 --> 00:05:06,236 And the highest speed is 3000 megahertz, but it says OC 100 00:05:06,236 --> 00:05:07,410 which means overclocked. 101 00:05:07,410 --> 00:05:11,070 The lowest speed which I installed was 2133 megahertz 102 00:05:11,070 --> 00:05:14,620 which was the only speed available on the motherboard 103 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:17,910 without doing overclocking, which is what I wanted 104 00:05:17,910 --> 00:05:19,740 because it was gonna be my main workstation. 105 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:22,590 I didn't want to risk any type of overclocking. 106 00:05:22,590 --> 00:05:26,160 Now to do the upgrade I kind of have to, 107 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,350 but I'm gonna minimize that risk 108 00:05:28,350 --> 00:05:31,350 by just going with the first level 2,400. 109 00:05:31,350 --> 00:05:34,530 And what you wanna do is you wanna make sure it'll work. 110 00:05:34,530 --> 00:05:39,210 Now, that means that you have to have XMP, 111 00:05:39,210 --> 00:05:42,000 extreme memory profile enabled 112 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,220 which it could be a switch on the motherboard 113 00:05:44,220 --> 00:05:47,760 or it could just be a setting in the bios or UFI. 114 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,070 And then you have to make sure that the RAM 115 00:05:50,070 --> 00:05:51,960 is gonna be compatible with your motherboard. 116 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,690 So you have to check whatever site you go to. 117 00:05:54,690 --> 00:05:56,905 I went with Kingston RAM, 118 00:05:56,905 --> 00:05:58,890 but whether it's Kingston or Corsair or whatever 119 00:05:58,890 --> 00:06:01,530 you wanna make sure it's compatible with the board. 120 00:06:01,530 --> 00:06:04,440 And then you wanna make sure that that type of RAM 121 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,090 with that overclock on the board 122 00:06:06,090 --> 00:06:08,253 will work with your individual CPU. 123 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:11,730 And really the only way to do that 124 00:06:11,730 --> 00:06:13,680 is to check and see if other people have done it, 125 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,480 which I have done. 126 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,380 I've checked and made sure that it will work, 127 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:22,320 but again there's always risk with any type of overclocking. 128 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,940 So you have to be ready for that. 129 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:27,480 I think we've minimized the risk pretty well. 130 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,160 So we should be in good shape. 131 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,265 So you gotta check the specifications first 132 00:06:32,265 --> 00:06:34,080 and make sure that everything will be compliant 133 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,190 and compatible. 134 00:06:35,190 --> 00:06:39,044 Then we'll go down to the system memory charts, 135 00:06:39,044 --> 00:06:41,385 and you'll see here. 136 00:06:41,385 --> 00:06:45,810 This is an illustration of the board, CPU, 137 00:06:45,810 --> 00:06:49,410 and we have four RAM slots here and four RAM slots here, 138 00:06:49,410 --> 00:06:51,660 and they're labeled here and here. 139 00:06:51,660 --> 00:06:54,150 They're also labeled on the board. 140 00:06:54,150 --> 00:06:55,980 Now if we scroll down farther, 141 00:06:55,980 --> 00:06:59,460 you'll see the various recommended configurations. 142 00:06:59,460 --> 00:07:00,840 There's other ones that you could do 143 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:03,300 that may or may not work, but usually it's a good idea 144 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:05,310 to go with the recommended config. 145 00:07:05,310 --> 00:07:06,870 You know, these guys that are building the boards, 146 00:07:06,870 --> 00:07:08,910 they do all this testing. 147 00:07:08,910 --> 00:07:10,890 Currently I have four sticks, 148 00:07:10,890 --> 00:07:15,890 so they are in one stick per channel, A1, B1, C1, and D1. 149 00:07:17,730 --> 00:07:21,630 That's what we have, but I'm doing an upgrade, 150 00:07:21,630 --> 00:07:24,450 and I don't wanna use these sticks just yet. 151 00:07:24,450 --> 00:07:26,430 I might incorporate them later 152 00:07:26,430 --> 00:07:29,250 but that should be a separate process altogether. 153 00:07:29,250 --> 00:07:31,890 I'm installing a different speed RAM. 154 00:07:31,890 --> 00:07:35,400 So we wanna make sure that that new speed of RAM works 155 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:36,570 before we do anything else. 156 00:07:36,570 --> 00:07:38,430 And that's what this video is about. 157 00:07:38,430 --> 00:07:40,440 And it's a two stick kit. 158 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:41,940 So this is the config right here. 159 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,853 We wanna do B1 and D1. 160 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,470 So that's what we're gonna do with that. 161 00:07:49,470 --> 00:07:52,724 And always check this stuff and have a plan ready 162 00:07:52,724 --> 00:07:57,690 before you actually go through with the install, okay? 163 00:07:57,690 --> 00:07:59,400 So we have a plan, 164 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,773 and let's go ahead and do the actual upgrade. 165 00:08:02,790 --> 00:08:04,740 Okay, so we have our computer here, 166 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:08,580 and I've taken the case cover off, and you can see inside. 167 00:08:08,580 --> 00:08:10,470 And here is our RAM. 168 00:08:10,470 --> 00:08:15,470 We've got one stick, two sticks, three sticks, four. 169 00:08:15,660 --> 00:08:17,370 These are gonna come out. 170 00:08:17,370 --> 00:08:18,210 Now before you do anything, 171 00:08:18,210 --> 00:08:19,500 you wanna make sure you have 172 00:08:20,398 --> 00:08:23,742 your antistatic protection set up, which we do. 173 00:08:23,742 --> 00:08:26,253 And these are easy to take out. 174 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,300 You need to release them by pressing to the side 175 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:33,790 with this ear or lever or lock 176 00:08:34,890 --> 00:08:37,170 whatever you wanna call it tab. 177 00:08:37,170 --> 00:08:38,730 And so we'll do that for each of these. 178 00:08:38,730 --> 00:08:39,810 You can do that with a tool. 179 00:08:39,810 --> 00:08:40,920 If you use any tools, 180 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,803 make sure you use something plastic, not metal, 181 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:47,850 but if you can fit your hand in that works also 182 00:08:47,850 --> 00:08:49,290 as long as you're grounded. 183 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:52,170 So we'll do this one, and you just press it to the side 184 00:08:52,170 --> 00:08:53,310 and it clicks. 185 00:08:53,310 --> 00:08:56,793 Do the next one and the last ones. 186 00:09:00,690 --> 00:09:02,061 Okay. 187 00:09:02,061 --> 00:09:03,065 That loosens them. 188 00:09:03,065 --> 00:09:04,062 Then we can pull them out. 189 00:09:04,062 --> 00:09:04,895 Now, when we do that 190 00:09:04,895 --> 00:09:09,450 we wanna grab from both ends and pull up simultaneously. 191 00:09:09,450 --> 00:09:12,600 We wanna make sure you're not moving from side to side 192 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,510 with the RAM cause that could damage the contacts. 193 00:09:15,510 --> 00:09:18,460 So we're gonna try to pull straight up as much as possible. 194 00:09:20,940 --> 00:09:22,590 And so we'll do that now. 195 00:09:22,590 --> 00:09:23,820 Take this first one out. 196 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:25,800 Grab from both ends. 197 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:26,853 Pull straight up. 198 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,500 Okay, and always try to handle it from the edges if you can 199 00:09:36,690 --> 00:09:40,440 so that we don't damage any of the chips or contacts 200 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:41,313 or circuitry. 201 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:45,090 And then you wanna have an antistatic bag available to you 202 00:09:45,090 --> 00:09:50,073 or more than one or old RAM containers to put that RAM in. 203 00:09:51,450 --> 00:09:55,803 So we'll put that to the side, and we'll remove the rest. 204 00:09:57,900 --> 00:09:59,103 Pull on the second one. 205 00:09:59,970 --> 00:10:03,660 Again straight out with both sides at the same time 206 00:10:03,660 --> 00:10:08,073 holding from the edges, and I'll do that with the rest. 207 00:10:10,650 --> 00:10:12,930 Okay, so we have no RAM. 208 00:10:12,930 --> 00:10:14,100 We have no memory. 209 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:15,600 System can't do much without memory. 210 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,703 So here is the new memory. 211 00:10:18,930 --> 00:10:22,533 And like I say, this is, I'm putting in 32 gigs, 212 00:10:23,610 --> 00:10:24,660 32 gigs of RAM. 213 00:10:24,660 --> 00:10:27,450 So here's one stick, and we've got another one. 214 00:10:27,450 --> 00:10:29,493 So they come in their RAM cases. 215 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:32,973 I'll take those out. 216 00:10:37,590 --> 00:10:40,530 And before we do so wanna make sure that we know 217 00:10:40,530 --> 00:10:44,430 exactly where we're installing those. 218 00:10:44,430 --> 00:10:46,653 And if we look at our documentation here, 219 00:10:48,990 --> 00:10:53,990 we see that we wanna use the B1 and D1 slots. 220 00:10:59,190 --> 00:11:04,190 Previously, we were using A1, B1, D1 and C1. 221 00:11:04,380 --> 00:11:08,070 So what we want are the slots that are open right now 222 00:11:08,070 --> 00:11:10,233 that are closer to the CPU. 223 00:11:11,070 --> 00:11:12,423 So that's this one here. 224 00:11:15,060 --> 00:11:16,890 That is B1. 225 00:11:16,890 --> 00:11:19,470 And this one here, which is D1. 226 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:21,510 To install the RAM, we take it 227 00:11:21,510 --> 00:11:23,960 and make sure we're just holding it by the edges. 228 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,960 And you wanna line up the notch in the middle there 229 00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:32,193 into the slot properly. 230 00:11:33,060 --> 00:11:35,160 So for this one, we have to turn it around 231 00:11:36,690 --> 00:11:40,890 and then we can place this directly into the slot. 232 00:11:40,890 --> 00:11:43,200 So it's gotta be placed straight in. 233 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,890 We'll press down, and when we do so, 234 00:11:46,890 --> 00:11:48,340 it should lock automatically. 235 00:11:51,330 --> 00:11:53,160 You probably heard a snap, 236 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,510 and it locked in. 237 00:11:54,510 --> 00:11:56,433 That is our B1 stick. 238 00:11:57,870 --> 00:12:00,360 And we'll do the same for the other one. 239 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,670 Now for this one, it's gonna go in the other direction 240 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:08,403 because the slots on the other side are reversed. 241 00:12:11,910 --> 00:12:13,860 So this time it's gonna go in this way. 242 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:16,923 Find the correct slot. 243 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,170 And it's a little tight in here. 244 00:12:19,170 --> 00:12:21,893 So sometimes you might have to one hand it a little bit. 245 00:12:25,620 --> 00:12:28,503 Try and carefully not to touch any of the circuit boards. 246 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,010 Slide straight in, 247 00:12:32,010 --> 00:12:35,073 and then we'll press down until it snaps into place. 248 00:12:39,180 --> 00:12:40,050 There we go. 249 00:12:40,050 --> 00:12:42,450 And what I was doing was I was applying even pressure 250 00:12:42,450 --> 00:12:46,620 to both sides trying at the same time 251 00:12:46,620 --> 00:12:50,103 so that we don't bend the RAM, 252 00:12:51,113 --> 00:12:51,990 and we don't bend the motherboard too much. 253 00:12:51,990 --> 00:12:53,820 You might have noticed it did have some movement 254 00:12:53,820 --> 00:12:55,680 even though there's some standoffs 255 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:58,080 on the motherboard between the motherboard and the case. 256 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,900 There is always also a little bit of movement. 257 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:01,950 Never force it though. 258 00:13:01,950 --> 00:13:05,193 If it feels like it's not going, try not to force it. 259 00:13:06,870 --> 00:13:09,660 Okay, so that is the RAM install. 260 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:12,390 The physical install really doesn't take very long. 261 00:13:12,390 --> 00:13:16,050 And so what we need to do now is just check 262 00:13:16,050 --> 00:13:19,020 make sure there's no contact showing. 263 00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:21,903 Make sure it's indeed pressed all the way down, 264 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,530 both of those and double check the slots. 265 00:13:25,530 --> 00:13:27,870 We wanna make sure that we are installing 266 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:29,580 to the correct location, 267 00:13:29,580 --> 00:13:32,550 and that's in your motherboard documentation. 268 00:13:32,550 --> 00:13:33,780 And I'm looking at that now. 269 00:13:33,780 --> 00:13:34,620 And it does look good. 270 00:13:34,620 --> 00:13:36,900 B1 and D1. 271 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:38,550 Sometimes they're labeled on the motherboard. 272 00:13:38,550 --> 00:13:40,920 Sometimes it's hard to find, 273 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,680 but in this case it's two slots away 274 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:46,517 from this side of the CPU and two slots away 275 00:13:46,517 --> 00:13:48,873 from this side of the CPU. 276 00:13:50,057 --> 00:13:51,630 You can count that off from the documentation also 277 00:13:51,630 --> 00:13:55,200 in case it's not numbered or diagrammed well 278 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:56,583 on the motherboard itself. 279 00:13:57,450 --> 00:13:58,283 All right. 280 00:13:58,283 --> 00:14:03,090 So let's case it up and get into the bios or UFI or both 281 00:14:03,090 --> 00:14:04,143 and check it out. 282 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,790 Okay, so I plugged everything in on the computer 283 00:14:08,790 --> 00:14:10,920 and entered the bios. 284 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,920 Here's our UFI bios utility for this ASUS X99-A board. 285 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:21,200 And it sees that we have 32 gigs of RAM, 286 00:14:22,658 --> 00:14:25,220 DDR4 2400 megahertz. 287 00:14:25,220 --> 00:14:27,270 Here's one it's in B1. 288 00:14:27,270 --> 00:14:31,950 And here's the other, it's in D1 as expected 289 00:14:31,950 --> 00:14:34,950 because we did that according to the manual. 290 00:14:34,950 --> 00:14:37,050 And so that looks good. 291 00:14:37,050 --> 00:14:38,580 Now you may wanna go further. 292 00:14:38,580 --> 00:14:40,240 You may wanna go to advanced mode 293 00:14:41,670 --> 00:14:45,540 and go into the tweaker here. 294 00:14:45,540 --> 00:14:47,580 The AI tweaker for this. 295 00:14:47,580 --> 00:14:50,280 We see the DRAM frequency is 2,400. 296 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,200 So it picked that up automatically. 297 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,050 Now I mentioned, there's an XMP switch. 298 00:14:55,050 --> 00:14:58,260 That's the extreme memory profile by Intel. 299 00:14:58,260 --> 00:15:00,375 Other boards will have something similar. 300 00:15:00,375 --> 00:15:02,880 Sometimes you might have a switch for this 301 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,375 on the motherboard. 302 00:15:04,375 --> 00:15:06,060 This motherboard does. 303 00:15:06,060 --> 00:15:07,920 So in some cases you need to enable this, 304 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,323 especially if you want to overclock. 305 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:15,903 If we look down here, and we look at the DRAM frequency, 306 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:19,620 you'll see that we can make changes here. 307 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:21,510 Now the memory frequency is good. 308 00:15:21,510 --> 00:15:23,190 We're at 1.2 volts. 309 00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:24,480 So that's good. 310 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:25,620 Capacity's right. 311 00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:28,530 Frequency is correct 2400's what we want, 312 00:15:28,530 --> 00:15:29,853 but you can go further. 313 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,940 And in fact, this board goes all the way up to 4,000. 314 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:40,231 It only supports up to 3000 megahertz, 315 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:42,180 but we could actually do that. 316 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:43,680 We could, overclock further. 317 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,843 Overclock with caution, of course. 318 00:15:46,860 --> 00:15:49,770 So if I was to take the other RAM that I have 319 00:15:49,770 --> 00:15:53,880 that runs at 2133 and place that in separate channels, 320 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:57,120 then I'd have to increase that frequency for that RAM. 321 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:58,560 May not work at all, 322 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,500 so that's a whole nother video altogether, 323 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:03,180 but again just remember if you ever have to do 324 00:16:03,180 --> 00:16:07,230 any over clocking you may have to enable that XMP switch 325 00:16:07,230 --> 00:16:10,920 on the motherboard or enable it here in the bios 326 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,790 and then configure the frequency that you wanna go to. 327 00:16:14,790 --> 00:16:18,450 But actually, everything looks good here right now. 328 00:16:18,450 --> 00:16:21,570 So we've got our RAM, and we should be good to go. 329 00:16:21,570 --> 00:16:23,550 I'm gonna reboot the system, 330 00:16:23,550 --> 00:16:27,300 and we'll be back in the windows section, 331 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:28,950 and we'll do some testing and benchmarking 332 00:16:28,950 --> 00:16:29,883 and finish it out. 333 00:16:30,870 --> 00:16:32,460 All right. 334 00:16:32,460 --> 00:16:37,460 So we booted into Windows, and Windows 10 started perfectly. 335 00:16:37,860 --> 00:16:39,660 And so I'm here in the system window 336 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:40,980 within the control panel. 337 00:16:40,980 --> 00:16:42,930 And it's a basic place to go 338 00:16:42,930 --> 00:16:45,090 to see if you have the right installed memory. 339 00:16:45,090 --> 00:16:48,420 We have 32 gig here, and everything looks normal. 340 00:16:48,420 --> 00:16:50,190 So that's the first place you can go. 341 00:16:50,190 --> 00:16:52,503 Second place we can go to is the Task Manager. 342 00:16:53,430 --> 00:16:54,780 And we can see here, 343 00:16:54,780 --> 00:16:59,780 we're using 4.1 out of 32 gig, about 13% right now. 344 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:05,010 So four gig in use, and that's typical. 345 00:17:05,010 --> 00:17:09,690 And then we have available 27.8 gigs. 346 00:17:09,690 --> 00:17:11,220 So 32 gig total. 347 00:17:11,220 --> 00:17:15,063 Looking good so far, we'll bring up CPU-Z, 348 00:17:16,230 --> 00:17:19,320 and I'm in the, here's the memory tab, 349 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,200 and it shows the DRAM frequency here. 350 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,300 And that's 1200 megahertz. 351 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:29,300 Previously this was 1066 to give a total of 2133. 352 00:17:30,750 --> 00:17:32,730 That's the internal frequency of the RAM. 353 00:17:32,730 --> 00:17:37,020 That's always gonna be half of what it's marketed as, 354 00:17:37,020 --> 00:17:40,590 the internal clock, not too important for the A plus. 355 00:17:40,590 --> 00:17:42,300 So you just double that we get 2,400. 356 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:43,500 We're good. 357 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:47,817 If we go to SPD here, we do see DDR4 2400. 358 00:17:48,870 --> 00:17:50,073 It identifies it. 359 00:17:51,099 --> 00:17:52,680 All looks good here. 360 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,980 And that's slot three that has one of those. 361 00:17:55,980 --> 00:17:58,320 And slot seven has the other guy. 362 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,760 Those are the slots that we're using for the RAM. 363 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:04,740 Okay, so those are some tools you can use 364 00:18:04,740 --> 00:18:05,670 to take a look here. 365 00:18:05,670 --> 00:18:08,010 CPU-Z is a third party program, 366 00:18:08,010 --> 00:18:10,365 Task Manager is built into Windows, of course. 367 00:18:10,365 --> 00:18:14,640 And so let's bring up the pass mark memory test. 368 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:19,640 This is performance test 9.0, and we'll do the memory mark. 369 00:18:20,670 --> 00:18:21,933 And we'll run that now. 370 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,110 Okay, so the performance test finished 371 00:18:25,110 --> 00:18:30,110 for the memory mark and the results are just slightly better 372 00:18:31,402 --> 00:18:34,770 than what we had originally. 373 00:18:34,770 --> 00:18:38,550 And originally you could see the results here. 374 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:39,750 Not really much different, 375 00:18:39,750 --> 00:18:43,470 and this partially depends on what's running on the system. 376 00:18:43,470 --> 00:18:45,930 So I did it the same way with nothing running, 377 00:18:45,930 --> 00:18:48,660 and honestly this could be better or worse 378 00:18:48,660 --> 00:18:51,600 depending on when you do the test. 379 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,370 Results can vary. 380 00:18:53,370 --> 00:18:54,930 But if we look at the final number here 381 00:18:54,930 --> 00:18:59,894 we see 2681 and here 2710, not much of a difference. 382 00:18:59,894 --> 00:19:02,400 And I didn't really expect much of a difference 383 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:05,130 even though it's 2,400 megahertz. 384 00:19:05,130 --> 00:19:08,027 It's not really that big of an increase 385 00:19:08,027 --> 00:19:10,230 when it comes to working with RAM. 386 00:19:10,230 --> 00:19:14,190 Now the old RAM, the 2133 387 00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:15,990 that was using all four channels. 388 00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:17,760 That was set up as a quad channel. 389 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,950 This is only set up as a dual channel, 390 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:24,540 but quite often dual channel may test worse, 391 00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:28,650 but it really behaves and performs pretty much the same 392 00:19:28,650 --> 00:19:31,110 when you throw real data at it. 393 00:19:31,110 --> 00:19:32,580 So that's something to think about, 394 00:19:32,580 --> 00:19:35,820 but at some point I might turn this into quad channel. 395 00:19:35,820 --> 00:19:40,530 Either I'll add two more sticks that I've already added 396 00:19:40,530 --> 00:19:42,720 or perhaps try to use the old memory 397 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,731 and try to use them together. 398 00:19:44,731 --> 00:19:49,110 One way or another, but it's good enough as it is now. 399 00:19:49,110 --> 00:19:50,100 This is fine. 400 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:52,780 The key is that we want the 32 gig 401 00:19:54,030 --> 00:19:57,150 because I wanna see what happens to this RAM amount 402 00:19:57,150 --> 00:20:00,060 when we run those virtual machines. 403 00:20:00,060 --> 00:20:01,743 So I'm gonna bring that up now, 404 00:20:03,510 --> 00:20:05,100 and we'll start a couple of these up. 405 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:09,690 I've got three that I was running before. 406 00:20:09,690 --> 00:20:12,000 We had Windows seven. 407 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,443 We'll power that guy on. 408 00:20:14,370 --> 00:20:18,270 Windows server 2016, we'll resume that one, 409 00:20:18,270 --> 00:20:21,903 and Windows 10, and we'll resume that one. 410 00:20:23,370 --> 00:20:25,260 Okay, and it's looking good. 411 00:20:25,260 --> 00:20:26,610 Everything's starting up. 412 00:20:26,610 --> 00:20:30,750 And it's utilizing about the same amount of RAM as before. 413 00:20:30,750 --> 00:20:33,570 It's just that we now have the 16 gig available 414 00:20:33,570 --> 00:20:35,190 so we could do a lot more. 415 00:20:35,190 --> 00:20:37,290 I can do a lot more of the things that I need to do 416 00:20:37,290 --> 00:20:39,780 simultaneously on this one system. 417 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:42,900 And everything's kind of booting up at the same speed, 418 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:46,290 but with a lot of these software benchmarking applications, 419 00:20:46,290 --> 00:20:48,720 you may or may not exact, exact results. 420 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,150 So we're gonna do a little bit more testing with that 421 00:20:51,150 --> 00:20:53,160 and see how that does. 422 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,210 As of now looks good. 423 00:20:54,210 --> 00:20:56,010 All the virtual machines are running, 424 00:20:56,010 --> 00:20:59,760 and everything looks like it's running well with this. 425 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,220 And so that's about it for this video. 426 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:04,020 It all looks good. 427 00:21:04,020 --> 00:21:06,840 So in this video we removed the four sticks 428 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,890 of DDR4 2133 RAM. 429 00:21:10,890 --> 00:21:15,420 And we installed two new sticks of DDR4 2400 RAM, 430 00:21:15,420 --> 00:21:18,813 upgrading the total RAM from 16 gig to 32 gig. 431 00:21:19,710 --> 00:21:22,770 Okay, I also checked the temperature of the RAM, 432 00:21:22,770 --> 00:21:24,630 and the temperature looks good in the bios 433 00:21:24,630 --> 00:21:26,730 and also with HW monitor 434 00:21:26,730 --> 00:21:29,160 but the system does appear to be running well, 435 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,620 and it should be able to handle just about anything 436 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:34,320 I throw at it over the rest of its lifespan. 437 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,730 So that's it. 438 00:21:35,730 --> 00:21:37,890 This is Dave signing off, 439 00:21:37,890 --> 00:21:39,640 and I'll see you at the next video.