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RAM, SSD Upgrade For Acer Aspire 5 A515-45, Casual Gaming Performance Uplift Expected

Acer has a mid-range laptop named Aspire 5 A515-45 for students with backlight keyboard and immersive 15.6 inch 1080p IPS Display. Luckily, Acer provides efficient and powerful AMD APU which is Ryzen 5 5500U 6 Core 12 Thread CPU and RX Vega with 7 Compute Units (CU).

Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 memory & SSD upgrade
Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 Motherboard Layout for memory and SSD upgrade purposes

Gaming wise, this Acer Aspire 5 can play any games online but you have to upgrade memory into dual-channel mode. Out of the box, you receive only 4GB DDR4 3200MHz running at single channel. Additional, 4GB stick is required to make it 8GB size and eventually turning on dual-channel by default. As we seen AMD’s Infinity Fabric runs effectively using memory’s dual-channel mode.

Recently published games such as Palworld and Genshin Impact would be great experience for Aspire 5 A515 users due to strong integrated RX Vega graphics. Main bottleneck of Acer Aspire 5 is 60Hz display causing a real-time 60 fps to gamer’s eyes, even though hardware specs can go further. Moreover, extra SATA HDD or SSD slot comes to rescue your personal data storage needs.

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