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What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs
Poll Sadly that does also mean 21% are on 16 GB or less, with upgrades only getting more expensive.
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New IDC report claims worldwide PC shipments fell by 5% but revenue didn't, as 'vendors are pushing through price increases faster than demand is dropping'
News Thanks, AI.
'Thank you again rural Walmart': Redditor picks up 32 GB of memory for $50, twice
News Some folks get all the luck.
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Analysts think SK hynix's DRAM and NAND prices will finally drop by the end of 2028, but not before a huge rise over the next year
News Here's hoping the expected price drop isn't just wishful thinking.
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Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
News Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.
SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
News That's $52 billion for a NAND plant and $13 billion for a chip packaging plant.
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
News But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather
News Neither response is what the PC industry needs right now.
