Toshiba Satellite C55-C5390 RAM upgrade

[katz]

I will be receiving this laptop for service/ram upgrade soon. I believe it only has one slot. This is Win 10, and currently has 4 gb. I cannot seem to determine what the max amount of ram the laptop will support. Toshiba's support document isn't very "supportive," lol.

Anyone have any idea on the max amount the motherboard will accept?

Toshiba specs - https://support.toshiba.com/support/staticContentDetail?contentId=4008586&isFromTOCLink=false

 

[Dogzilla]

I cant see a 5390 on crucial's site, but the 5380 takes 16gb, in 2 sticks.

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Toshiba/satellite-c55-c5380

 

[seashore]

Crucial's own scanner tool always works fine to determine exact upgrade options.

 

[Markverhyden]

According to the detailed specs, 4gb and not upgradeable. But check the Toshiba part number. Sometimes to retail model number may have several versions with different options.

Edit: according to the maintenance manual max 8gb, 1 slot but may be a lower max for certain models.

http://central-it-service.com/owncloud/index.php/s/AjJmY1DHmD8mUIl

 

[Porthos]

The only thing you are probably going to be able to do is put a SSD in it.

 

[katz]

Speccy shows the motherboard as FF50 06F5 (CHV). I am looking up the specs now to see if it is upgrade-able.

 

[Markverhyden]

An image search for the C55-C5390 suggests that the board may be laid out for two DIMMs but that only one socket is fitted. This could make installing the second DIMM a bit challenging.

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Get in touch with the folks on the Red Green Show. They can work miracles.....

 

[katz]

Get in touch with the folks on the Red Green Show. They can work miracles.....

 

[nlinecomputers]

That's such a low end system that I would just tell the client not to waste their money.

 

[katz]

That's such a low end system that I would just tell the client not to waste their money.

Yep.

Another example in a long line of examples where the client has known me for years, yet purchased this system on their own, then spent a couple hundred bucks on "system mechanic, tune up optimizer" programs, etc., and when that all didn't work, decided to contact me as to why the system is running slow. In addition to that, there were four A-V programs installed, lol.

 

[Mick]

I agree with @Porthos - you will get much more of a performance boost from an SSD than a RAM upgrade, and for not much more money. FWIW - I used to like the old Satellite range. I found them durable and reliable old work-horses that just kept chugging away doing basic stuff very reliably. Not sure about this particular model, but they churned out so many variants it was difficult to keep track. I've still got one somewhere, an old L750. Has a 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM - all cannibalised off old scrap machines - and it flies.

 

[Larry Sabo]

then spent a couple hundred bucks on "system mechanic, tune up optimizer" programs, etc., and when that all didn't work, decided to contact me as to why the system is running slow.

I replaced Avira with Kaspersky on a customer's computers yesterday and it hit me why Avira bundles those speed-up, program update, VPN add-ons to their Launcher program. You can't uninstall Avira without first uninstalling Launcher, and uninstalling Launcher complains about these other modules interfering with its removal. I had to uninstall the crap modules before uninstalling Launcher and then Avira. I bet many people just say, to hell with it. I'll just stick with Avira because I don't want my computer to run slower or fail program updates if I uninstall those. Apologies to the OP for wandering off topic.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I agree with @Porthos - you will get much more of a performance boost from an SSD than a RAM upgrade, and for not much more money. FWIW - I used to like the old Satellite range. I found them durable and reliable old work-horses that just kept chugging away doing basic stuff very reliably. Not sure about this particular model, but they churned out so many variants it was difficult to keep track. I've still got one somewhere, an old L750. Has a 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM - all cannibalised off old scrap machines - and it flies.

To a point. But 4 GB is crippling. Win 10 can't properly run on this no matter what SSD you put in it.

And the CPU is so slow that it too will be a bottleneck.

It's crap and putting a pretty bow onto it doesn't change that.

 

[Markverhyden]

To a point. But 4 GB is crippling. Win 10 can't properly run on this no matter what SSD you put in it.

And the CPU is so slow that it too will be a bottleneck.

It's crap and putting a pretty bow onto it doesn't change that.

But some wingtips might help.....

 

[Mick]

And the CPU is so slow that it too will be a bottleneck.

I think these things had old Pentiums in them. So - yeah, it's never going to be a Derby winner. But if I was spending limited cash on this, the SSD is what I'd go for. A much better idea would be for the OP's customer to save up for a new one...