Effects of RAM upgrade

[Rohirrim_Bane]

Hi everyone,

I am currently using 8GB RAM on my probook 640 G1 laptop and the highest VRAM change I can make (in BIOS) is 512MB (but because of intel HD drivers I get like 700MB showing in my OS). 

I want to update my RAM to 16GB or 20GB (16 + 4). Will such a big update improve gaming performance and the options I can have for VRAM.

The games I'm interested in playing are Witcher 3 (it lags heavily on 8GB ram) and both Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal.

Please tell me your experiences with using more ram on a laptop with integrated graphics (particularly intel HD graphics on an intel i5 4th gen CPU)

Much thanks.

[visruth · Accepted solution]

Hi,


16gb (two 8gb sticks) is the max possible RAM

Manual: http://h20628.www2.hp.com/km-ext/kmcsdirect/emr_na-c04823617-1.pdf

The video memory allocation of integrated graphics chip is done by the BIOS, system automatically and end users cannot do anything about it as BIOS is locked by manufacturers in majority of consumer notebooks at present

Even if you put full 16gb in it, you're not going to get much improvement in gaming graphics performance.

This is the only reason I always go for notebooks with dedicated video chip off at least 2gb in it. Currently I've 2 Pavilion notebooks with Intel core processor - 4th & 7th gen, 2gb & 4gb NVIDIA dedicated graphic system


Regards

Visruth

[Rohirrim_Bane]

Thanks for the feedback Visruth. Looks like I'll just have to start saving up for a proper gaming laptop

[visruth]

You're welcome. Sorry for the bearer of bad news though.