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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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NOTE ReadyBoost isn’t for every system. A modern system running SSDs

won’t see much benefit with ReadyBoost. Also, adding more RAM will

always give a system a far better boost in performance than messing with

ReadyBoost. Add RAM and blow off ReadyBoost. Just remember

ReadyBoost for the exams.

Getting the Right RAM

To do the perfect RAM upgrade, determine the optimum capacity of RAM to

install and then get the right RAM for the motherboard. Your first two stops

toward these goals are the inside of the case and your motherboard manual.

Open the case to see how many sticks of RAM you have installed currently

and how many free slots you have open.

Check the motherboard book or RAM manufacturer’s Web site to

determine the total capacity of RAM the system can handle and what specific

technology works with your system.

You can’t put DDR4 into a system that can only handle DDR3 SDRAM,

after all, and it won’t do you much good to install a pair of 4-GB DIMMs

when your system tops out at 4 GB. Figure 4-31 shows the RAM limits for an

ASUS-brand motherboard.

Figure 4-31 The motherboard book shows how much RAM the motherboard

will handle.

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