Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 RAM Upgrade Tutorial

The Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 is a gaming powerhouse packed with formidable features. Sporting a vivid 15.6-inch Full HD IPS display, you get impressive color and clarity that bring games and videos to life.

Powering this gaming beast is the cutting-edge Intel Core i5-12500H processor, ensuring swift, uninterrupted gaming, and multitasking. It's armed with 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, facilitating smooth performance and speedy load times. For storage, the Nitro 5 comes with a 512GB solid-state drive, providing rapid, reliable storage for your games, files, and more.

But as impressive as these specs may be, there's always room for improvement, especially when it comes to gaming or running resource-intensive applications. This is where a RAM upgrade becomes particularly beneficial.

Why Upgrade the RAM?

Upgrading the RAM on your Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 can significantly enhance your laptop's performance. It allows for faster response times, smoother multitasking, and, most importantly, a significant improvement in gaming and application performance.

Adding more RAM can provide your laptop with more 'working' space, and subsequently, reduce reliance on the hard drive.

This is crucial for applications that require a lot of data to be loaded at once, like open-world games or heavy data-processing applications. In addition, boosting the RAM can potentially extend the lifespan of your laptop by allowing it to handle future, more demanding software updates and applications. This sets the stage for our tutorial, as we guide you through the simple process of upgrading the RAM on your Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 RAM/Memory Upgrade

What Type of RAM do I Need to Install? How Much RAM can I install?

According to the memory specifications, the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 utilizes DDR4 PC4-25600 3200MHz non-ECC SODIMM RAM and can support up to 64GB. With the potential to house such a significant amount of memory, you might be wondering if it's worth going all the way up to 32GB or 64GB.

Upgrading to 32GB of RAM (two 16 GB modules) can make a noticeable difference in performance. This can be particularly advantageous if you regularly use demanding software such as video editing programs, 3D modeling software, or high-end gaming.

If you're a power user who often has many applications running simultaneously, 64GB (two 32 GB modules) could offer you an even more fluid, lag-free experience.

It's also worth noting that it's best practice to replace the onboard RAM when performing a RAM upgrade. This is due to something called Dual-channel memory.

Specifically, in the case of the AN515-58-57Y8, it could be beneficial to replace the existing RAM modules with two identical RAM sticks.

This approach, known as 'dual-channel memory,' can significantly improve performance. In dual-channel mode, the memory controller has access to both memory modules simultaneously, thereby doubling the data exchange rate.

This means more efficient utilization of the memory bandwidth, leading to a more responsive system overall. Therefore, replacing both RAM sticks with identical ones, rather than adding to the existing RAM, can often result in a more substantial performance boost.

How To Upgrade the RAM on the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8 Step-by-Step

To perform the upgrade you're going to need a screwdriver, we would also recommend you get your hands on a prying tool of some sort such as a guitar pick to help you remove the bottom case.

It's important in this case that you don't use anything metallic as it could damage the internals of the laptop when you're opening it up. If you don't know where to start this is a nifty little cheap kit we often use to open up laptops.

Step 1: Before you do anything you need to make sure that your laptop is turned off and disconnected from its power source. It would also be wise to disconnect any peripherals that may be attached to the laptop through the USB ports.

You don't need to perform a data backup because you won't be replacing the storage, only the RAM so there's nothing to backup. RAM memory is "emptied out" every time you turn your laptop off anyhow and fills up as you are using the laptop.

Step 2: Place the laptop on its back and remove all the screws attaching the bottom case. Fortunately, they are all identical so you don't need to worry about remembering which one goes where when you re-assemble.

Step 3: With the help of a prying tool, slide it around the edges of the laptop to separate the bottom case from the rest of the laptop. Once you've done that you should be able to remove the bottom case and this is what you'll find:

Step 4: The RAM modules you're going to replace are located below the heat shield above the battery. Remove the heat shield to be able to access the slots.

Step 5: Now that you have removed the heat shield you can go about replacing the RAM. Pull outwards on the metallic levers located on the sides of each of the RAM slots to release the RAM at a 45-degree angle. At that point, you can retrieve the RAM.

Step 6: Now that you have removed the onboard RAM you can introduce your own memory modules into the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58-57Y8.

To do this simply make sure that the notch on the module and the notch on the slot align. Once they are aligned you can insert the modules into their corresponding RAM slots. This image should give you an idea of what that alignment looks like.

Step 7: Once the modules have been properly introduced gently press down on them. This will trigger the metallic clutches on the sides to latch on to the new RAM modules. You should hear a "click" sound. When that's done all that's left for you to do is to place the heat shield back where it was when we started this upgrade.

Now, all that's left is for you to re-attach the bottom case with the screws you removed at the beginning of this upgrade tutorial. When you boot up the laptop you should be able to see your new amount of RAM either under "Device Specifications" or after launching the Task Manager (Control + Shift + Esc) in performance under the "memory" tab.

You're all done! Congrats! As we said this is a relatively straightforward procedure and one that will immensely benefit the performance of your laptop. We hope you enjoy your newfound performance boost!