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 ...

Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby Memory Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive ...

The DDR4 memory market has experienced significant turbulence over the past month, as major manufacturers discontinue older production lines. This shift has triggered a surge in speculative purchasing ...

Outside of situations where you know for sure you need more memory, most people start to think about upgrading their RAM when their PC starts to feel slow. But it isn’t always the right fix. Memory is ...

Welcome to ExtremeTech's comprehensive RAM guide, in which we'll answer a broad range of questions related to how much system RAM you need these days, whether or not it's worth it to upgrade older ...

Prices for DDR5 RAM have more than doubled since November 2025, to the point that for the cost of 64GB, you could buy a ...

The root cause of the shortage is the insatiable appetite of Artificial Intelligence. Leading chipmakers, including Samsung, ...

Every component in your computer is important, complex, and has more specifications than most folks are familiar with. Your RAM, or Random Access Memory, is no exception to this. Generally, people ...

Academic researchers testing modern memory modules from Samsung, Micron, and Hynix discovered that current protections against Rowhammer attacks are insufficient. Current mitigation solutions are ...

If you want to choose the best RAM for your PC, you’ll be faced with a lot of terms that may not sound familiar at a glance. DDR? DIMM? CAS? XMP? When you just want something that goes well with the ...

The year is 2025. Memory prices have shot through the roof. You’re a system builder who wants to sell PCs to customers. You ...

One of my workmates got back from her family Christmas in Auckland and her older son's computer will no longer turn on. It seems like the power supply has done it's dash, and as it's a Lenovo SFF, ...