Male Speaker: Hey, YouTube, it's Tech Support Gone Bad, and today I'm going to be teaching you guys about how to actually buy more ram to install on to your computer. Now, as most of you should know or as opposed that we do know when buying a ram, you have to make sure a lot of different things. First of all, you have to make sure that your computer can even hold extra ram and you also have to make sure that the ram that you want to buy is compatible with your computer. And there are just a lot of different other things besides that that you have to make sure before you actually buy a ram to install on to your computer.
Now, the we can be using a really helpful lets say that helps us to do all of that and it's just really easy and it just simplifies the process of buying ram for your computer. So, the website that we are going to be using today is called crucial.com that crucial.com. Going to crucial.com will be in the video description. Now crucial.com is mainly an online store for selling ram, but it also provides a very excellent service that scans your computer and tells you all the information that you need concerning ram on your computer. So, you want to go ahead and get scanned your system and if you are using Windows vista, you want to use their vista scanner.
And I'm not sure, if this works for Mac, so if you does it So, you want to click scan my system and give it a second here, and then this will pop up or it'll take you to this next page and you want to check this box to agree to the terms and conditions and then click download the scanner. It shouldn't take too long to download, so you should not click save file. And just like that it's already done downloading, so you want to double click on it and click run. Now, your default web browser is going to open up and it's going to say scanning your system. So, as the scanning progress, please wait your scanner a port will display shortly. There it is. It gives you just a bunch of information. It says, guaranteed compatible memory upgrades for your, and then it's going to say your type of computer.
And then the main information that you are going to need here is going to say you are currently installed memory. Now, it's say I've two slots available and up and both slots are filled with half a gig of ram at the moment. So, we total, I've one gigabyte of ram, and then it tells me to type a ram that's compatible with my computer, and then it says each memory slot can hold the type of ram with a maximum of two gigabytes per slot. And then it's going to give you extra information here on it's also going to give you a mini-FAQ just for your computer. It's personalized just for your computer and just for your type of ram. And then yeah, it just gives you bunch of other information right here.
Now the best part is if you scroll down, it's going to tell you that type of ram. So, you don't even have to like go looking for that type of ram, you could just buy it just from this online store. So, it's given me the option of two gigabyte ram or a one gigabyte ram. And it gives me the prices assess -- and it tells me how many I want to buy. And they do support pay by the way, so you can buy with Pay Pal. And yeah, that's pretty much a really great website and I just love this website, I'm about to buy a ram soon and I will make it to, but I'm not sure yet because I'm going to be installing the ram on to my laptop. So, it will be different for PC or Mac, so I'm not sure on that yet, but I might, so I just look forward to that. And to buy that, it's just a really great website, it gives you all this information that you need of regarding your ram. And then it let you just buy it right there from the website, so no hassle and it's a free website, it's a free service
So, this is pretty much good. I hope you guys enjoy and this helps you out, hoping me it makes your life easier and remember if you like this tutorial, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and yeah this is pretty much yet so until the next video. I'll see your guys later.
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