u/Empty_Body_5133

Was thinking about upgrading my 8gig ram single channel to dual channel 16gig.

Currently I have a Lenovo Legion Slim 5 16APH8 with a rtx 4060 and Ryzen 7 7840HS. I'm not sure what ram to buy and the prices right now seem insane. When I was looking online I found that a DDR5-5600 SODIMM would work with my setup.
First I had a couple questions.

I mainly play cs2 and arc raiders, both fairly run well but I get terrible 1% lows from times and my current setup on 8gigs ram is very unstable/inefficient.

  1. would adding another stick significantly increase my fps
  2. any brands I should consider before buying
  3. is it worth buying a stick or ram or just completely getting a new laptop to begin with.

From my conversation with Chat-GPT my laptop Is heavily bottlenecked by my ram. It also mentioned that my GPU and CPU are solid at the moment.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Budget: $150
Country: USA
Use Case: Gaming - CS2, Arc Raiders
Notes: Fairly new to the PC community.

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