TrendForce notes a 12% increase in some 8GB DDR4 memory kits and an 8% rise in the cost of 16GB kits over the past week.

Compared to July 2025, these older standards of RAM are 3.2 times more expensive, so not reaching the same levels as DDR5 yet ...

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 ...

Back in early June, we received our first sets of DDR4 RAM from Crucial, which we posted about in an article called, "A close-up look and discussion of Crucial's upcoming DDR4 Memory". We now have had ...

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 ...

According to a post on the China-based PC hardware forum Board Channels, people looking to build relatively affordable workstations with lots of memory are buying old ...

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 ...

Most computer technologies only last a short time before they are replaced by something new, but DDR RAM is one of the few that tends to last a while before being replaced. The original DDR SDRAM was ...

DDR3 seemed plenty fast when it first showed up 19 years ago. Who could say no to 6400 Mb/s transfer speeds? Of course ...

Here's one way to avoid paying an absolute fortune for RAM - forget DDR5 or even DDR4 memory, switch back to DDR3, as some ...

Leading DRAM makers — Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix — may cease production of DDR3 and DDR4 memory by the end of the year. The decision is due to low prices caused by dumping (by Chinese makers) and ...