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recently bought a laptop off fleabay and while it works fine i have a couple questions , as never had a slightly modern one before lol


Asus Tuf Fx505gm,​

I7 8750h,​

Gtx 1060 6gb,​

16gb Ram,​

256gb NVMe,​

1tb SSD​


it has 2 sticks of ram in 2x8gb, but they are different brands, but cpu-z does say they are in dual channel.
So guessing thats ok then ? both the same speed 2666 i think.

was considering of buying a 32gb kit, is it worth it or not? considering the games it can run, or would u just leave it as it is.

it has a WD NMVE drive in, which says its health is at 86% , is that ok for a while yet ? , i do have a spare WD black 250gb NVME spare doing nothing, which i think is at 98%
Would you swap them out or leave as it is for a while.

Sorry for what might seem obvious dumb questions, but never having had a semi decent laptop before that can actually play games :)
 

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Look at the chips on the ram and go by that or look up the qvl for ram for that laptop on asus website
 
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Firstly, there are no dumb questions.;)

Secondly, you might have better experience upgrading to a larger NVMe drive first, depending on how many games you'd like to keep installed. 16GB is plenty for games but 32GB is certainly not bad either, except perhaps less useful unless you have a clear use case for more than 16GB.
 
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Unless you need more RAM, just leave it.
The health percentage is just an estimation based on the current total writes and the TBW value, it's not a big problem unless you are seeing failures.
 
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Just get a bigger SSD for the time being. 32 GB of RAM is nice, but it won't change your experience with that hardware as much as being able to actually have tons of games installed. If you can get a 1, maybe 2 TB drive *and* afford the memory kit (buy a 2x16 pair), go for it.
 
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