Upgrading Asus X552C

[Techito]

Hello,

I have an Asus X552C with an i7-3537u with 8GB of ram, 4GB are embedded. I have searched for information but I can't find anything about the board, the references I find say it only has one slot, but on my machine the operating system and the speccy software say that I have 3 free slots.

The board is this
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X550CL (SOCKET 0)

How can I confirm that without dessambling?

Assuming that I really have 3 slots available, could I add 2x8GB and have 24GB or would it be better to remove the 4GB and have 20GB?

I can't find many 8GB memory of those characteristics either, and they are from brands I don't know.

Any recommendations on Kuesuny or Kllisre?

Greetings and thanks

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Best you can do is probably put another 8GB in. The only free ram slot exist where the keyboard is so you're going to have to dismantle the laptop and pull the entire board out to get to it anyway.

as for Kuesuny or Kllisre -- Ive never heard of them. But reviews seem to be pretty good for both brands.

If you watch through this video, it will show you what you need to know

 

[dark2099]

If your laptop is built like this one, looks like a fairly easy upgrade.

 

[Techito]

Thanks for your help and sorry for the delay

I had already seen videos of how to disassemble the laptop, but the extra slots if they exist are on the bottom of the motherboard, and to access there you have to remove the board and disconnect cables. I'm not used to do these operations, and I would prefer to do it when I'm going to put the new memories, and not disassemble it to find that they don't really exist.

How can it be so difficult to find the motherboard specs to know if I have 4 RAM slots or 1?

Or why speccy and windows show free slots that not exist?

wmic memphysical get MaxCapacity, MemoryDevices MaxCapacity MemoryDevices 33554432 4

wmic MEMORYCHIP get banklabel, capacity, caption, devicelocator, partnumber BankLabel Capacity Caption DeviceLocator PartNumber BANK 0 4294967296 Physical Memory ChannelA-DIMM0 EBJ40UG8EFU0 BANK 2 4294967296 Physical Memory ChannelB-DIMM0 ASU16D3LS1KBG/4G

 

[Caring1]

How can it be so difficult to find the motherboard specs to know if I have 4 RAM slots or 1?

Look at the video, it shows one slot only under the motherboard.
You are running dual channel already so that slot is not free.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Its also hard to tell because a lot of manufacturers will have soldered on memory and call it a 'slot'. So even if CPU-Z might report that you have memory slots/banks available, You wont be able to slot them in because the slot itself just isnt physically there. It doesnt exist on the board itself.

My laptop is exactly the same. Its an older W310CZ made by Clevo. CPU-Z says that i have two slots. I have 8GB in one slot but i cant find another slots because it just physically doesnt exist.


It can depend on the price and form factor of the laptop. If youre running an ultrabook style of laptop or your laptop is a dirt cheap one. Ram would usually be physically soldered onto the board and not give you a slot to add more. Some £600-800 laptops from Alienware, Samsung, HP etc etc etc do this too. Its all about saving space and cutting corners where they can.

Also specs are subject to change on parts availability thats why sometimes manufacturers leave a lot of the details out. For instance they'll tell you, you'll get 8GB of ram but they wont tell you what speed or how many modules. Or they'll tell you that your £300 laptop will come with a 5th gen CPU but they wont tell you what it actually comes with because everything they build is based on what parts they can get at the time. The panels on your monitor are the same. Some specs wont tell you if its an IPS, VA or TN panel.