What happens when you put 32GB RAM in an underpowered AMD Athlon Silver HP laptop then try to play some games on it?


Well in tonight’s episode we aim to find out.
We start with the HP 15-gw0502sa , a rather modest budget laptop from 2020.

With its AMD Athlon Silver 3050U and RX Vega 2 onboard graphics, it has potential.
However it is seriously held back by a very slow 5400RPM hard disk, bloatware and of course a rather small 4GB of RAM. We aim to fix its two faults by replacing the HDD with an SSD and the 4GB RAM with, well as the title says - 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM.

We take you along the journey, show the experience using of the laptop before upgraded and how slow it is with games and daily tasks such as boot time and opening apps. We then do the upgrades and compare how its performance has improved.

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—— Specs of the machine ——

Computer: HP 15-gw0502sa 1L6P6EA
Display: 15.6” 1080 x 1920p Anti-Glare display
Processor: AMD Athlon Silver 3050U at 3.2GHz (dual-core) Picasso Architecture
Graphics: Integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
Ram: Originally 4GB 2400MHZ DDR4 from SK HYNIX
Upgraded Ram: CRUCIAL 2 x 16GB DDR4-3200, SODIMM 1.2V CL22, dual-channel
Hard Disk: TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100 - 1TB, 5400RPM HDD
Upgraded SSD: Sandisk SDSSDHP-128GB - 128GB 2.5” SATA SSD
Battery: 3619 mAh / 11.34V / 41.04Wh

—— Games tested ——

Red Dead Redemption 2 / RDR2 / Red Dead Redemption II
Helldivers 2
Doom Eternal
Fortnite
GTA V / Grand Theft Auto V / GTA 5
Counter-Strike 2 / CS2
Overwatch 2
Minecraft Java Edition
Minecraft for Windows 10 / Minecraft Bedrock Edition
Lethal Company
Left 4 Dead 2 / L4D2 / Left4Dead 2

—— Music ——

What's My Age Again but it's in Old School RuneScape
By YouTube creator, ShowMeYourBenitals
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File City (Day)
By Koji Yamada and Yuko Ishii, mastered by Megumi Miura (BANDAI MUSIC) from “Digimon World” (1999) by B.B. Studio, Flying Tiger Entertainment
Published by Bandai, Bandai America, Inc.

Sakado Interior & Sakado - Main Theme
By Tony Trippi and William Havlicek from
“Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon” (1993) by Animation Magic and published by Philips Interactive Media

Tomato Convenience Store
From “Shenmue” (SEGA, 2000) by composers Ryuji Iuchi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Osamu Murata and Hayato Matsuo

Clueless in Seattle
By Burke Trieschmann and Jim Hedges
From “Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko” (1999) developed by Crystal Dynamics, Gratuitous Games, David A. Palmer Productions, LTI Gray Matter,
Published by Eidos Interactive, Crystal Dynamics, Crave Entertainment

Green Meadows
By Chewtaro Moritake, momo, Eriko Chubak, Melody Chubak, ams, Kei Morioka, Junko Ozawa, Etsuo Ishii,
Minamo Takahashi, Junichi Nakatsuru, Rio Hamamoto, Yoshihito Yano, Tetsuya Uchida, Tomomitsu Kaneko
From “The Dog Island” (2007) developed and published by Yuke’s and Ubisoft

Background
From “Old School Runescape” (Jagex, 2001) by Ian Taylor

Green Ham Gaming Theme
Oxter Music

—— Chapters ——

00:00 Introduction
02:49 Tech Specs
07:01 Experience (stock)
11:03 Benchmarks 4GB RAM
14:11 Upgrades
16:24 Experience (upgraded)
18:13 Benchmarks 32GB RAM
27:16 Conclusion
31:22 Credits and Mailbox

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