Buying memory in 2026 is a painful process. It’s so bad that companies like V-Color are selling single DIMMs with dummy modules, just so the inside of your PC doesn’t look so pathetic. Corsair is getting in on that action with a little extra flair. The new Shugo kit includes a teeny tiny painting on each DIMM, and both dummy RAM sticks. Neat?
It costs over $500 for 32GB. Less neat.
In addition…
CPUs, GPUs, SSDs—all of them need cooling to various degrees, and some combination of heatsinks, fans, and cycled liquid will get the job done. But what about memory?
When running at crazy speeds of 8,400MHz or higher, your DDR5 DIMMs can get pretty toasty. Cooler Master’s latest offering at Computex manages it with a tiny fan embedded in the stick.
According to the announcement, this setup is…
Selling ice cubes in a blizzard, or pool floaties on the International Space Station, or inflatable dart boards. It’s hard to think of a situation more unfortunate than launching a line of premium, high-performance gaming memory during a RAM shortage, when PC buyers are extremely anxious about rising prices. Yet here we are—or, at least, here sits Asus.
The company just debuted a new 48GB…
Is PC building cooked? The hardware news as of late might make you think so, what with the latest headlines about “collapsing” motherboard sales—as much as 37 percent for individual vendors.
A Digitimes report (h/t Tom’s Hardware) paints a grim picture. Among the biggest four Taiwanese companies hawking mainboards—Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI—all have seen steep drops in sales compared to…
As if the AI data center boom wasn’t causing enough problems for PC hardware, a looming strike in Samsung’s home territory of South Korea could grind the memory giant’s already-strained production to a halt.
According to the latest reporting from Reuters, a long-simmering dispute between Samsung and its unionized labor force has boiled over, with no compromise in sight even after days of…
_Caveat emptor_ (“let the buyer beware”) is the rallying cry of every con man and huckster who tries to fleece a mark. But it’s worth keeping in mind if you’re hunting for a deal in the nightmarish hellscape that is the PC market in 2026, especially if you’re doing so on secondary markets like Craigslist and eBay. Thanks to the RAM crisis, scams are multiplying quickly, as they always do for…
Buying a power supply can seem like a minefield of jargon and specs. What wattage do you need? What efficiency rating is best? Which form factor is right for your build?
It’s no simple task to distill these answers and pick from the dozens of options out there from so many different manufacturers. It’s incredibly easy to mess up if you don’t know what you’re doing, especially with all the recent…
Alle vier Netzteile sind aktueller ATX 3.1- und teilweise auch PCIe-5.1-Standard, haben einen leisen und langlebigen 120-Millimeter-Lüfter und sind natürlich – Seasonic-typisch – aus absolut hochwertigen Komponenten.
Die Top-Modelle CORE GX-850 und GX-650 sind voll-modular. Sie schließen also nur die Kabel an, die Sie wirklich brauchen. Das ist wichtig für ein aufgeräumtes System und einen guten…
AMD hat mit seiner AM5-Plattform moderne Techniken wie PCIe 5.0 und DDR5 eingeführt. Der AM5-Sockel ist für die CPU-Baureihen AMD Ryzen 7000, 8000 und 9000 konzipiert. Aktuell lassen sich 29 Boxed-Prozessoren vom Einsteigermodell AMD Ryzen 5 7400 bis hin zum Flaggschiff AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D in AM5-Mainboards einsetzen. Selbst die nächste CPU-Generation Zen 6, die AMD Anfang 2027 vorstellen will,…
DDR5 RAM is now three-to-four times as expensive as it should be, thanks to the “AI” boom (and it won’t stop there). But this week, there’s an oh-so-rare opportunity for consumers to fight back, at least for a small subset of United States consumers… via a successful class-action lawsuit against G.Skill. (Hey, you gotta take your wins where you can get ’em.)
A settlement has been reached over a…
The RAM shortage is still out of control. You can’t build a decent PC anymore without spending exorbitant amounts of cash, all because memory and storage costs are through the roof. Graphics cards are also in short supply. It’s crazy out there! What are you to do?
Well, you have options. Maybe you won’t be able to get hold of the latest DDR5 sticks, and maybe you’ll have to make peace with…
Intel began as a memory supplier. The PC industry faces its most dire memory crunch in years, if not decades. So it makes sense for Intel to move back into PC memory, right?
Sort of. Intel said this week that it is indeed working on a new memory technology, called Z-Angle Memory, or ZAM, with a Softbank-backed startup called Saimemory. It’s not so much a new type of memory, but rather a new way…