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

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 ...

DDR4 memory, even though a generation old at this point, is still very capable and can deliver performance levels only slightly behind the newer DDR5. While DDR5 memory continues to make inroads with ...

RAM prices are in a dire situation right now, but it's no reason to throw caution to the wind and spend hundreds on a new DDR5 kit.

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

Some memory modules have become considerably pricier over the past few days. Certain DDR4 DIMMs for desktop PCs, notebooks, and servers are particularly affected. It is currently difficult to assess ...

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 ...

You can buy a lot of RAM for north of $800, or you can grab the fastest memory kit in the world, Corsair's new 16GB (2x8GB) Vengeance LPX DDR4-4866. It's the only kit officially rated for DDR4-4866 on ...

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

TL;DR: The ASRock H610M COMBO motherboard supports 12th to 14th Gen Intel Core processors with a unique hybrid memory design featuring 2 DDR4 and 4 DDR5 slots (not simultaneous). It offers versatile ...

Intel introduced the consumer market to DDR4 with the introduction of the X99 platform. These are the early days of DDR4, and top kits are in the 3300MHz range, which is quite modest considering DDR4 ...

Rahim is a Senior Tech/Commerce Writer at Valnet and builds PCs & networking solutions on demand. Whether It's your GPU, CPU, Display, or just an SSD upgrade, expect him to have a well-researched ...