How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card

How To Upgrade Your RAM and Video Card

on Mar 22nd 2011 with 4 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour

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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A long time Cgtuts+ author, Chris has recently moved into the role of co-editor at Cgtuts+. Chris has nearly a decade of experience working with 3D studio Max and has authored many in depth tutorials for Cgtuts+ as well as other websites. A generalist by definition, Chris spends most of his time modeling, but has many years of experience in the area's of UVMapping, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering. On rare occasions when he's not wasting away in front of his computer, Chris enjoys playing hockey, skateboarding, watching movies and playing games. You can find more of his work over at christateonline.com.  

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  • Manuwarna

    really importaint post mate.really worth watching.thanks again.

  • Nesar alam

    thank.
    That is really good.
    Its give more important informatiom about system for me and everyone.
    really I first see what is the inside structure of mac.

  • moh11raf

    Thnx 4 this upgrade of we mind …. the most i realy like the 3d world …..
    my Regards salam

  • http://noir-badger.deviantart.com spiderm0nkey

    Something to note is that people need to check the wattage of their power supply at the very least before upgrading their video card. A lot of the higher end cards nowadays draw more power than the power supplies in most pre-assembled computers can supply. Otherwise, very good overview.