How I'm beating high RAM prices in 2026 - an expert's guide to smarter PC buying

If you've been following PC hardware news over the past few months, you'll know that RAM prices have climbed to absurd heights. According to PCPartPicker, the average price of a 2x 32GB DDR5-6000 kit ...
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Is Soldering Your Own RAM Worth It in Today's Economy?

In a time when DDR5 kits can cost more than a graphics card, some builders are literally soldering their own memory sticks to ...

Surprise! DDR3 isn’t dead—and it might be the budget PC gaming answer you need

DIY builders are already making do with older hardware. Many are squeezing more life out of AM4 systems—building newer configs around existing DDR4 memory kits. But the real champions? They’re kicking ...

Intel has the memory chips it needs to keep shipping Lunar Lake: 'we were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early'

Intel says it has enough memory stockpiled to continue to sell Lunar Lake to plan. According to CFO, David Zinsner, the company has dodged the worst of the ongoing memory crisis by being "relatively ...