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 ...

We've been hearing quite a bit about PC components getting much cheaper in the recent past - SSDs, for one thing, and RAM too, but system memory price drops may be coming to an end. That's the view of ...

What if we move to 16GB of RAM, which has long been considered the sweet spot? Things are going to work much better. In fact, with 16GB of RAM, most of the problems with 8GB go away, except for one -- ...

Random access memory is a crucial component of every computer's operation, but it's not always easy to tell when your RAM is ...

A computer's maximum supported system memory, or RAM, is contingent on the processor, the operating system and the motherboard. These three factors provide hardware and software limitations that ...

Adding more RAM to a computer doesn't always result in a performance boost, which means that you may have to make the most of what you have. A computer that has enough RAM tends to run smoothly, ...

I've run into this with Horizon Zero Dawn when it first launched on PC, Escape from Tarkov, and more recently Grey Zone ...