Laptop Ram Upgrade

So I've had this laptop for a long time and it's been great, but here recently I've noticed a bottleneck with the RAM when playing games such as PUBG. I have a i7-4790K (yes, I have a desktop CPU in my laptop) and a GTX-970M 6GB. Where my issue comes in is with the RAM, I have 8 GB of RAM currently and want to add more to remove the bottleneck when gaming as I experience frame drops when the RAM maxes out. When the computer is idle, it's using around 3-4 GB of RAM which is leaves only 4-5 GB for any other process I want to run in the background such as Discord, Spotify, etc.

When using Crucial's software to scan my system and see what upgrades are available, its shows that I have 4 slots with only one being occupied with the 8 GB stick. After taking off the bottom cover of my laptop, I only see 2 slots where RAM can go instead of 4 like Crucial's website says as well when looking under the Performance-> Memory section of Task Manager it also says 1 of 4 slots is being used.

So does anyone have any idea why I can only see 2 slots when taking the bottom of the laptop off when 2 different sources say I have 4 slots?

Great job HB pointing out that the Harker is a Sager/Clevo NP9772. That unit has 4 RAM slots. Two are accessible via the back; the other two are available from the front after removing the keyboard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH4neVi5JyM&t=1141s

Edited by GrandesBollas - 31 Jan 2020 at 11:47am

Here are the two slots underneath the keyboard. The Clevo keyboards are magnetically attached. There are videos showing how to pop it out.

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