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hi I'm James and in this video I'm going

to be taking a look at fitting an

additional four gigs of memory into our

brand new dell inspiron 55 67 laptop so

first thing we need to do with this and

it should be hopefully a relatively

simple process we are going to flip over

the machine like so and to begin with we

just have to go around and remove all of

the screws from the base and as normal

I'm just going to take them out I'm just

going to place them over here in the

order I've removed them and I don't

believe they're all different sizes but

this way just if any of them are then

it's easy enough to work out what came

from where so we've gone with this model

and we're upgrading it to eight gigs of

memory and I actually intentionally

bought the base spec first of all

because I didn't feel the upgrade to

that smaller screw there didn't feel the

upgrade to eight gigabytes was

particularly good value and it was a lot

cheaper to buy an additional module

myself and fit it now obviously this has

an impact on the warranty but with what

many use this machine for I'm not too

concerned and also the eight gigabyte

version of the machine only came with a

single eight gig module and because I

want to use this laptop for performance

testing with integrated graphics I'm

going to be testing in dual channel

configurations and not a fan of

manufacturers habits of shipping things

single channel

unfortunately Dell have persisted across

this entire range not just the the full

gigabyte model and basically dual

channel memory doubles the memory

bandwidth available to the processor and

since the processor also has the

graphics for this particular laptop

built into it that then has a knock-on

effect on the graphic

performance of the machine which can

actually be up to sort of 30 percent

degradation in performance and so I

always yet for machines got socketed

memory old slot memory rather than

soldered down I'll always make sure if I

can I've got a dual channel

configuration in the machine it is at

least nice the Dell do tell you when

you're ordering the Machine what the

memory configuration is a lot of

manufacturers just state the amount in

there and then you get a nasty surprise

when you come to run something and

wonder why the performance is well below

what it should be

I also don't like it when manufacturers

put unbalanced configurations say six

gigs with a 2 and a 4 or Ram 12 gigs

with 4 and an 8 as that can give some

interesting performance issues as well

so with all of those remove now the next

thing to do is slide out the DVD drive

that was held in by that screw there and

possibly that one there as well I'm not

sure on that side and underneath that we

have three more small screws there these

are sort of small flat headed screws so

your screwdriver seems to do the job for

these we could possibly go down the size

on the tip for them but that's doing the

job ok and I actually don't worry too

much on the warranty subtleness as well

because if we're careful and using our

plastic pry tool we shouldn't leave any

sort of marks obviously if you do have

an issue when your warranty is voided

that's you know done on your own

off your own Bank now with those screws

removed what I'm going to do is just

turn the laptop around so I can see a

little better and the service manual

says start in this corner and we are

going to slide in here a plastic pry

tool and just begin unlatching the base

of the machine

so if that corner done are now going to

then try it and go and the side here and

latch there and then with that opened up

it should be easier to go around and get

some more

there we can actually just with nails

what may actually be so now with the

machine this side up you can see we've

already lifted this side this isn't

really the best way to be working with

the machine orientated this way and I

have started to go along here when I

turned it over a bit and but what we

want to do is just go along this front

edge and start separating the clips by

sliding the pry tool in through that gap

and basically if you just press down it

pushes the black plastic forward and

allows the top panel to pop out what

we're going to do now is for the final

section we're just going to flip the

machine over and with it all lifting up

now what we want to do is just pull from

this end and the final clips should come

out there and that gets us inside the

machine so I'm just going to turn that

round so I think it looks better this

way and so what we have here single ddr4

module we are going to add our second

four gig module this is a crucial four

gig ddr4 2400 module and so that's a

micron ddr4 2400 module in there but

that should give us a match pair in

terms of performance and should all work

nicely and now if we were I'm not going

to do it yet but if we were going to fit

the SSD drive into this we would first

of all release this cable we can then

move that back out the way we're going

to take our screwdriver and we have it

looks like three screws retaining this

so with those removed we should now be

able to lift up the hard drive and turn

it over and

I'm going to disconnect the SATA cable

leg because it's going to be easier to

work with when we aren't tethered to the

machine so to pop that out we just want

to get this will catch lift it there pop

that out pull that connector off so that

gets us our drive free and then we have

full screws holding it into this caddy

so we can take those out and attach and

fit in an SSD into there I know because

I'm not doing that right now

I'm just going to reattach that and

reconnect to the hard drive so if you

wanted to remove the CPU cooler we have

one two three four screws there and then

additional there which would remove the

fan and heatsink as a single unit and

then finally the battery it looks like

you have this bracket here which would

need to come off a screw here and that

one is shared with the hard drive so

it'd be a case of those full screws

connector here connecting to the hard

drive itself and then you could remove a

sorry the battery and then you could

remove that anyway I hope you found this

video interesting and memory upgrade and

hard drive change on this laptop

relatively simple and in terms of

getting things back together I'm just

going to the only real thing other than

putting screws in is just how to refit

the base so if we put back in these

connectors for the

back in these screws for the hard drive

this slots into here for the little dog

board over there and real a CH that so

finally to refit the base what we want

to do is we want to start at this end

with the majority of the ports on it and

we want to line up this right corner so

that it fits in round by the hinge and

then press down then we are going to

flip the machine over open it up and

press the top panel down so it clips

into the base like so and with that done

all that should remain now just making

sure we are happy with how all of that

is fitted in all that remains now is to

flip it over put the screws back in and

hopefully everything should be good so

using this we've gone to 8 gigabytes of

memory in a dual-channel configuration

and if you want to change the hard drive

or fit an SSD as well then same

processes involved I hope you found this

video useful and be sure to subscribe to

the channel if you want to see some of

the performance testing we are going to

be doing with the i3 7100 you in this

machine and let's let that know what

you'd like to see in the future thanks

for watching