How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card

How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card

on Mar 22nd 2011 with 11 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: A Computer :)
  • Difficulty: Beginning - Intermediate
  • Run Time: 53:07 min

In this tutorial, we’ll get our hands dirty as we crack open our computers and take a look at upgrading the memory and video card, two upgrades that can immensely effect the performance of both Mac Pros and Windows machines. We’ll learn principles of upgrading, buying, and physically installing hardware, so even if your particular machine is not covered, it’s still applicable. This is for beginners and professionals alike and is geared more towards media content creators. This is a great opportunity to take a peek inside the machine you use daily and to find out how to get a lot more performance out of it through these two simple upgrades.

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  • http://pasesycortes.com NBA

    Really…? I mean, I can find this in any hardware site, youtube, etc…where are the AE tuts?

    • AK

      Exactly my thoughts. Must be a slow week.

  • jink

    Definitely helpful for all those who bought a mac pro, considering the $5,000 one comes with a $200 graphics card.

  • Rutger

    Very helpful! I bought a mac pro 1.5 years back but the graphics card is already pretty outdated… Since I’m not a very technical genius this really helps in my decision process! Thanks!!

  • Nykeri

    wow, really in-depth thanks a lot, superb quality

  • Gustav

    Won

    Brilliant post thanks so much…!

  • http://videohive.net/user/adintermedia?ref=adintermedia adintermedia

    Pretty helpful even for pc users like me.

    thanks

  • Roel358

    Nice video, i dont really need any help on upgrading my GPU/RAM since i already know the neccesary stuff about it ;D, but i just always find it amazingly fun to watch these videos. :D

  • http://www.ardillamedia.com Anders Hattne

    I’ve been listning to this video while working. It’s very helpfull. Thanks! Hopefully I can get those last 2gb, (that have been lying around the desk for a year++ back) installed and working soon. It seems once 8gb are installed the voltage for the memory has to be increased in the BIOS, which seems to be a different chapter in this story..

  • http://www.graphicna.com Basel Mousa

    Seems like a great n valueble tus .. but i wish that the TUTS+ staff will consider that some nations like here (Yemen) got a very slow internet connection which makes downloadin such videos really hard .. i wish that u offer the videos in low-definition for such cases :)

  • Ubiq

    Great information for the layman (which is almost everyone). Right at home at aetuts+. And very well presented, with a perfect voice, I’d like to add.