Inspiron 11 3000 Series (3137) 8gb RAM?

Where is the manual for my new dell? Could you please point out where it gives instructions on opening the case to upgrade the insufficient RAM? I must have accidently thrown it out...

I leave that as an exercise for you, the "well educated" person, to find the manual. I was able to find it.

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You claimed to have done your research on this laptop. That cannot be true because I was able to find the manual and read the procedure required to add more RAM. I did this without having bought the laptop to only have "accidentally thrown it out"; it being the manual.

Why don't you just be truthful and admit that the only "research" you did was on the price?

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So we've moved on from name calling to questioning integrity? Rough transition, you are a very angry little troll, but I'll try to keep up. Let's review your logical reasoning, you state that:

-Angry Troll (AT) was able to find the Manual

-AT did so without buying the laptop in question

-AT's version of the manual described RAM upgrade procedure

THEREFORE: gjgardner (G2) is a lying (presumably via a large mouth) about "research"

This brings us back to our earlier lesson on invalid/valid arguments. If you can remember that far back, I believe my complaint was that there is not enough RAM in the stock system, and that it isn't reasonable for a buyer to be expected to self-upgrade a laptop that should be running (to be useable) no less than 4GB at stock, and that 8GB should be an option. This opinion is based on my actually owning the product in question, I'm still not sure if you own or have used one or not (or even have a Win8 machine). Dell responded with a canned response about "many configurations being available", for a unit that doesn't have much available for alternate configurations, but specifically not on RAM upgrades.

Not long after that AT jumped on in.

So, in summary and/or clarification:

G2: It isn't that I am unable or even unwilling to perform a system upgrade on a reasonably priced laptop (LT), but that I shouldn't have to.

AT: (feel free to clarify) You are a big mouthed backseat driver if you complain about stock RAM, and you obviously didn't do any research.  And you are probably lying.

G2: Just to be clear, I did read about the LT having the option to be user upgraded before I purchased, but please see above for clarification.  Also, I dont think my purchased LT had information on how to remove the back cover, but I will double check the box tonight.

Does that help? Or are we going to move on from calling G2 a liar to physical threats? We could certainly have a face to face if that works better for you.

Hi curious2013

I got mines a few days ago, very disappointed how slow it is.

How is the speed after you install the 8GB RAM?

The manual says 4GB Ram upgrade supported, do you think the system only uses 4GB of the 8GB RAM and not the entire 8GB?

At 2GB it's not useable (in my opinion, based on my own machine).  After installing the 8GB it's much much better, as for the support, it shows up as 8GB installed, and I suspect the system is using all 8GB.

Well worth the upgrade to 8GB.  Upgrading to a SSD would also be a big positive, but a little more expensive.

I think the difference is huge, but 8gb isn't necessarily required to make this laptop run well. IMO (and given the price of ram these days), upgrading from 2gb to 4gb is the real difference maker, whereas 4gb to 8gb is just gravy. 

I think I paid $80 for 8GB, I can't say how much better 8 is than 4, but I like gravy.  I'm considering SSD as well, but that probably isn't worth the cost.

People who tried 8gb, can you also pls do a quick RAM test on 8GB and see if there are no errors and instabilities?

RAM test tools on windows are easily available, just google search.

According to the memory specs of the ntel® Celeron® Processor 2955U
(2M Cache, 1.40 GHz), it can handle up to a max memory size of 16GB RAM.

Been running 8GB of Crucial for the past week.  Have twice in the past few days received two series of 4 very loud beeps (assume RAM read/write error??) while in sleep mode.  Windows started up with no problem though.  Ran the Windows memory diagnostic this morning which indicated no issues, but I went in and made sure the RAM was well seated in the slot, and ran the diagnostic again. Still no issues found. Will try a different diagnostic tool if I receive the beeps again, but 8GB, plus SSD as of yesterday, running fine otherwise with much improved performance over the stock config.

Yes, 4 beeps would mean memory read/write error as per Dell's beep code - Dell support team can confirm on this (?)

There might be an issue with timing settings in low power mode with 8gb part even though the it detects 8gb. I don't know how much bootloader diagnostic test would stress test. Any memtest at windows level should do.

I assume 4gb part should work fine as dell claims it is verified.

I agree.  2 GB isn't enough for Windows 8/8.1.  I bought this for a friend figuring I'd drop another 2 GB stick in.  Sadly, I'm used the Latitudes where things are designed to upgraded.  I guess he will have to deal with a poky laptop.

Been running 8GB of Crucial for the past week.  Have twice in the past few days received two series of 4 very loud beeps (assume RAM read/write error??) while in sleep mode.  Windows started up with no problem though.  Ran the Windows memory diagnostic this morning which indicated no issues, but I went in and made sure the RAM was well seated in the slot, and ran the diagnostic again. Still no issues found. Will try a different diagnostic tool if I receive the beeps again, but 8GB, plus SSD as of yesterday, running fine otherwise with much improved performance over the stock config.

I noticed that the 1.35v ram I got is actually running at 1.28v according to CPUID. Is that what yours is running at?

HI Brian,

The mainboard only supports one memory module, so you will have to purchase a 4GB stick instead.

I had the 4 beeps twice even with the 2GB original RAM, I still haven't install my new 8GB RAM yet.