ram upgrades alienware 18 overhaul.

[ConfussedCannibal]

Hey guys I've posted a few questions before and you's have best source of info I've found. So I'm back for more lol.

I'm overhauling my Alienware 18 completely, starting with the Ram and hard drives.
I want to upgrade from 16Gig Ram to 32Gig (at least) and Hard Drives to Solid Drives.
So can you guys please make some recommendation to what I should get
Here are my spec's.
Alienware 18 BTX Base Mod
Operating System : English Windows 10 pro (64 BIT)
Internal UK/Irish (QWERTY) Key board
802.11ac Dual Band 2x2 AC WiFi +Bluetooth 4.0
Dual NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GTX 770M graphics with 6GB total ( 2x 3GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI(R) Enabled
UK 250V Power Cord
8-cell Lithium Ion (86 wHr) Battery
330W A/C Adapter
lot-Loading Dual Layer Blu-ra y Reader (BD-ROM, DVDRW, CD-RW )
1.5TB RAID 0 (2x750GB 7200RPM) + 64GB mSATA SSD Caching
16GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MH z (4x4GB)
Alienware 18 Silver Anodized Aluminum
18.4 inch (467.36mm) WLED FHD (1920 X 1080) TrueLife Display
4th Generation Intel Core i7-4 800MQ processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.7GHz w/ Turbo Boost)
Thanks in advance for any and all your help.
Ps: If anyone wants to make any recommendation's on CPU'S and GPU'S, they shall be most welcomed .

 

[Barty1884]

Well, first off - 32GB RAM will be your max. You have 4 ram slots, and there are no 16GB consumer ram modules - so 4x8GB would be your max.
There's very few situations that would utilize 32GB of RAM, so I'd suggest you rethink that. You're likely looking at 200quid minimum for 4x8GB and it's unlikely you'd feel a benefit at all.

As far as SSD goes, you'll lose a lot of storage (without paying the big bucks for TB SSDs).
You could look at a 512GB Samsung 850 EVO and 1+TB HDD for additional storage - obviously you can;t run your RAID setup after that.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but CPU upgrades are going to be meaningless. I think you have the best one on the FCPGA946 mobile socket.
Any upgrade would need an entirely new motherboard, which either dont exist, or are not worthwhile price-wise.

Your going to be limited to RAM, SSD upgrades.....and maybe GPU upgrades (although likely pricey) - which will also likely need a review of the PSU, which may or may not be possible