Major changes to the PC’s RAM subsystem typically occur once in blue moon, but mere years after DDR4’s delayed rollout, that time is upon us yet again. How fast is DDR5? What will I need to run what?
Records are meant to be broken, and Patriot Memory did just that with its Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 memory leapfrogging G.Skill, ...
DDR5 memory runs objectively high transfer rates; JEDEC specs go as high as 6.4 Gbps, and overclockers have taken DDR5 beyond the fastest LPDDR5X: all the way to over 13 Gbps. At these speeds, signal ...
Intel’s 12th Generation Core processors, code-named "Alder Lake," just hit the street, and with them begins the Age of DDR5. With the new CPUs come two new technologies that the PC cognoscenti will ...
We recently reviewed the cheapest DDR5 memory we could find to see if that impacted gaming performance and to our surprise it didn't perform bad at all. In fact, in terms of value it was quite good ...
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 ...
Since the introduction of DDR5 memory kits to the consumer market, there is one thing that everyone is talking about – which memory type between DDR4 and DDR5 is the best. While both RAM types have ...
DDR5 memory prices are soaring with serious shortages on the way that could last for at least four years, leaving consumers ...
Renesas Electronics announces that it has delivered the industry’s first sixth-generation Registered Clock Driver (RCD) for ...
Rising DRAM prices are shaking up PC gaming, pushing DDR5 costs higher and threatening GPU pricing next. Here's what this surge means, and whether you should ...