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 ...

The two main types of RAM for modern computers are DDR4, and DDR5. Together they span a number of processor and motherboard generations across desktop PCs and laptops, and though DDR4 RAM might be the ...

We all know that bigger is better, right? At least in generalities, it's often true. More CPU cores help performance in multi-threaded workloads, while high frequencies boost performance in ...

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The fastest DDR4 we have run to date! Our GeIL Dragon RAM booted right up, looks like no other kit on the market, and leaves plenty of fun to overclock them as long as you have the grapes to push the ...

One of the simplest hardware upgrades you can do to make your computer feel snappier is to upgrade your memory. Over the years, operating systems like Windows, software like Photoshop, and now even ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a problem with my computer and I think its the motherboard. However I wonder if its possible the CPU could have a memory controller issue. The problems I've been having are: I can't get any ...

In this article we'll take a closer look at memory scaling performance with Intel Alder Lake CPUs, or more specifically the Core i9-12900K, though these results should apply across the entire 12th-gen ...

The battle between DDR4 and DDR5 is at its peak as the older memory standard sees its final days. AMD has completely nullified the support for the last-gen RAM sticks with its latest Ryzen 7000 series ...

I'm a tech journalist and author from Gloucestershire, UK. Once was, RAM had little effect on your system performance as long as you had enough of it. Today, it can cause serious bottlenecks for your ...