Tom's Hardware has learned about plans from motherboard manufacturers and memory modules houses to restart DDR4 production to ...

More RAM is coming, but the shortage isn't going away. Even with new production ramping up, the supply problems plaguing PC ...

Several manufacturers at Computex 2026 informed Tom's Hardware that they are preparing to increase production of DDR4 memory ...

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 ...

Building or buying a PC in 2026 just keeps getting more expensive, with memory and storage prices surging. I've been building ...

The first few months of 2025 were full of graphics card reviews where we generally came away impressed with performance and completely at a loss on availability and pricing. The testing in these ...

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 ...

As of the May 2026 data release from market research firm DRAMeXchange, the average fixed contract price for PC DDR4 8Gb ...

PCWorld addresses the ongoing RAM shortage crisis by providing practical strategies to optimize memory usage and find cost-effective upgrade alternatives. Key solutions include using DDR4 memory which ...

If you've ever been computer shopping, you'll undoubtedly have heard the term RAM thrown around willy-nilly. You might know a few things about RAM, such as that it's one of the most important parts in ...

If you’ve been planning a PC build or even browsing pre-built systems, you’ve likely run into the same issue: RAM prices are unusually high. In some cases, costs have increased by as much as 500%, ...

But for people with a high-end GPU who don’t want to pay today’s inflated prices for a good kit of DDR5 memory, a re-release ...