What is RAM?Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the ...

DDR5 pricing has pushed gamers back to AMD's AM4 platform. With Zen 3D chips gone, CPUs like the 5600X, 5700X, and 5800XT are resurging, so we ...

Since the introduction of DDR5 memory kits to the consumer market, there is one thing that everyone is talking about – which memory type between DDR4 and DDR5 is the best. While both RAM types have ...

TL;DR: DDR4 and GDDR6 memory prices are set to surge by up to 43% in Q3 2025 due to end-of-life status, supply shortages, and shifting production to DDR5 and GDDR7 technologies. This trend impacts PC ...

A few weeks ago we reviewed Intel's new Alder Lake architecture for the first time and with it we also got our first chance to play around with DDR5 memory. In our Core i9-12900K review, we tested ...

If you have an older PC and are considering a memory upgrade, you might want to do it sooner than later. Prices for DDR4 memory are expected to jump sharply as the major memory vendors phase out their ...

Today James is looking at a prebuilt system from PCSpecialist, using the latest i7-10700K processor and Z490 platform. Paired ...

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While not completely upgradeable like modular gaming desktop PCs, modern laptops still have certain components that users can upgrade, such as storage and memory. Both are required in modern games in ...

The two main types of RAM for modern computers are DDR4, and DDR5. Together they span a number of processor and motherboard generations across desktop PCs and laptops, and though DDR4 RAM might be the ...

DDR SDRAM technology has reached its 4th generation. The DDR4 SDRAM interface achieves a maximum data rate of 3.6Gbps per bit (i.e., clock rate of 1.8GHz). There are four key challenges in designing ...

Having plenty of memory in your PC is more important than ever, now that practically everything runs on the web. But if you’re using a dated laptop or desktop that relies on DDR4 RAM, you might find ...