Can it be upgraded? Laptop RAM is generally soldered onto the board

If it can then check task manager and RAM usage

yup luckily this one allows upgrade!

even the official website has an article that shows you how to upgrade ram and ssd

it's currently using 50% of my ram at the moment 

Before you decide to upgrade the ram look up the price of it, its nearly tripled in the last 6 months.

Why do you think it needs an upgrade? 16GB is still plenty in most cases. if its using 50% its more than fine. Computers don't generally slow down till you have exhausted all the RAM, and even then it shoves stuff into the Page file.

I think it's gonna cost me about 500-600 bucks in total

I was gaming the other day and noticed that my memory use was almost at max so that put me in bit of concern

Ppeppssi:

 

Hey, I currently use a 5 year old asus gaming laptop currently and don't plan to upgrade it until this dies.

 

 

 

Do you think it's worth upgrading my ddr4 16 gb ram to ddr4 32 gb ram?

 

Not worth it no.

I'll keep on using current setup as other comments recommend.

thanks for reply everyone!

You want it all to be used, it caches things. The question is if more of it would make a meaningful difference which most of the time if you are only running the game and not other stuff at the same time, 16 still seems to hold up very well on low to medium settings which would be pushing a laptop that old to go higher.

That cash would be best kept now till the AI bubble bursts and there is an oversupply of ram because the commitments from AI data centres to buy it all has dried up.

Ppeppssi:

 

I was gaming the other day and noticed that my memory use was almost at max so that put me in bit of concern

 

what was using it? what else was open? what games are being played?

Almost max is fine.

If you're a gamer, I wouldn't bother. Save your funds for a desktop or new gaming laptop.

If RAM is only concern, and not CPU/video performance, you're fine.

hey everyone, thanks for the explanations

to be honest, i do not know much about computer parts but all these replies is helping me understand much better!!

Thanks again :)

I got another 16GB used ddr4-3600 for $50 before Xmas for my desktop to go to 32GB, was worth it at that price.

Also have a 5yr old 16GB Asus gaming laptop that I won't bother upgrading the Ram for. 16GB is still being commonly included with new gaming laptops, so current setup is fine for you. The graphics card/Graphics card VRAM amount will be the bottleneck, and that can't be upgraded 

If you can find some cheap then sure, but even used DDR4 on Trademe is pretty pricey now