Amd A8 processor

Pwkid1996

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Recently purchased a toshiba laptop, comes with amd a8 5545m running at 1.7 but at 2.7 with amd turbo core tech. Has 4gb ram, and was wondering if anybody knew some specs on the a8 or other valuable information! Also! Would like to run games like; League of legends, Smite, Dota, and minecraft!
 

IInuyasha74

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Yes I know how it works. Each memory channel gives 64-bit bandwidth, and using dual channel gives 128-bit. I know this gives a huge boost. I said it "Technically" would because explaining this to a someone who doesn't know a lot about computers might confuse them and I didn't want to over complicate things for him/her. It would be the same thing if someone said "Technically raising the clock speed will increase performance." Granted with the dual channel the results are much more noticeable but its along the same lines.
 

IInuyasha74

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Haha ohh sorry. Some people on this site are real argumentative jerks so its easy to be a little over defensive.

So yea OP, like he said a good RAM upgrade, which if you haven't done before is super simple. A small panel on the back of the laptop usually, unscrew it, and put in the ram. Done. That will give you a huge boost in performance over just the one RAM stick.

Honestly I wish they would start putting quad-channels in laptops and desktops more cause the boost it would give to the IGPU would be huge.