How to Determine How Much RAM is in Your Computer

Video Transcript

"If you're noticing your computer start to run slow, one of the best things you can do is upgrade your RAM. Hi, I'm Charles Stewart Jr, and I'm going to tell you how to find out how much RAM is in your computer. If you're running Windows the easiest thing you can do to find out how much RAM you have in your computer is go to My Computer, right click, hit properties, and then it should come up with your system properties and under the general tab it'll come up with your processor, and how much RAM you have. And mine is showing I have two gigs of RAM in here. And I just hit okay with that so, I know that I've got two gigs of RAM in this computer, now if I want to find out much I can go or how high I can go with it, I need to find out what my motherboard support or what manufacturer says. The computer that I have I built myself, so, and I use an Aces motherboard, so I would just go to the Aces website, and look up my motherboard on the website, and then find out what kind - how much RAM I can fit in there, or how much memory it can handle, and then you can pop open your case and look and see how many sticks are in there, RAM modules are in there. And if you even have room to upgrade. If you have a PC you bought from Dell or HP, you can go to their website and go to their support section and then look up the information about that. If you have a user manual, you know that should tell you in there as well. So just following that, you can find out if your computer is upgradable, or you can just open it up and see if you have any RAM slots available, and that should tell you how much RAM you have in your computer."