If you guessed the RAMpocalypse is ...

Anxiety driven by sudden scarcity and Trump tariffs have caused DDR4 RAM prices to rise by nearly 40 percent for some memory kits. Double Data Rate 4 memory—or DDR4 RAM if you’re short on time—has had ...

When comparing "DDR4" and "DDR5" in the specifications of a gaming PC, you might think you can just buy a cheaper ...

Should I buy DDR4 or DDR5 RAM? That's the question we're going to answer here, with a focus on gaming. If you're considering using Intel's LGA1700 platform with its powerful 12th, 13th, and 14th gen ...

Raspberry Pi buys on contract, and the Pi 5 uses LPDDR4X, not DDR4, so this isn't what its chip costs. The direction is the ...

In context: Introduced in 2014, DDR4 dominated the SDRAM market for several years until DDR5 launched in 2020, promising faster speeds and improved efficiency. Despite being technically outdated, DDR4 ...

Most computer standards change quickly, with manufacturers adopting new ports, cables, and form factors as soon as they release. Random-access memory (RAM), meanwhile, hasn’t changed all that much in ...

Memory shortages have brought the DDR4 back into the game, as a new report claims that Samsung plans to delay the EOL cycle of the memory to capitalize on the market demand. The DRAM supercycle has ...

New CPU and GPU architectures roil the market pretty much every year—sometimes more than once a year. Yet in spite of the impact that system memory can have on a PC’s performance, the industry has ...

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

With Intel's "Alder Lake" 12th Generation desktop processors, we have the debut of a new memory standard in consumer PCs: DDR5, which is used by many of the motherboards that support the new chips.

In July 2025, the lowest retail price in Akihabara for 32GB (16GB x 2) of DDR4-3200 was 7,100 yen. As of September 19, 2026, ...