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How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card
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How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card

on Mar 26th 2011 with 11 comments

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.

Special Thanks to Won Novalis and AEtuts+ for this excellent video tutorial. We hope you enjoy it. You can view more of Won’s tutorials over at ae.tutsplus.com.

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  • http://twitter.com/dianah86 Diana

    hmmm, is this tutorial for laptops too? I´ve upgraded the RAM of my laptop last month, from 2gb to 4Gb and it works smooth, it is upgradable to 8GB,

  • http://razerdesign.com Kevin

    I don’t see why this on vectortuts…

    I agree that this important and I think it’s a great topic to cover. Also the author did a great job with it, just….why vectortuts? I feel something like this should be on all sites or no sites…it applies equally to everyone from a mobile developer to a motion artist. My 2 cents though.

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

      On the weekends we like to publish videos on a range of topics that creative people will find interesting. :)

    • http://bdt466.deviantart.com BDT466

      Hey, well I had a look on the aetuts+ site and it is also posted there. I haven’t checked the others out to see but if they haven’t it’s probably something the editor of that specific ‘blog’ rejected it or Sean(the editor of Vectortuts+) found it and thought it appropriate to post here as well. I would assume it originated on aetuts+ and someone has found it beneficial to post here. But yeah, I agree that it should be posted everywhere. Skellie, wield your epic POOOWWAAA and let it happen :P

      • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

        Yep, it’s from AE tuts, like it says in the introduction ;)

  • http://www.indiabucket.com/ Rakesh Kumar

    I have only 512 MB RAM over 500 GB hard drive that’s why my computer performs slow. I really need this tutorial to upgrade RAM so that my PC can rock. Thanks

  • anonymous

    i would like to say that the filming in this video is fantastic, i just loved how the computer parts looked, great lighting and focusing!! wow, great job!

  • http://www.atulperx.com Atulperx

    Hey thanks for sharing nice tut and I hope many users will get benefit from it . Selecting a right GPU and Case always trouble me because of too many choices .

  • http://www.aphrodite1994.com/ Mark

    Always handy to know how to do stuff like this to save money and do it yourself. Cheers!

  • http://pakdenanto.blogspot.com/ nantaPD

    It seem Good indeed to save our money……

  • PramJi

    Thank you sooooo much for these kind of useful videos. It was a pleasant surprise to find this kind of video on system upgradation which in fact is helpful for people like me :). I just recently upgraded my RAM. Now will try doing that with graphics card too. Please keep posting more useful items. Let the enthusiasm continue!!!