Person inspecting a new laptop at a retail shop - Damircudic/Getty Images Over the past decade, computer manufacturers have prioritized form factor, launching sleeker models year after year. That ...

While not completely upgradeable like modular gaming desktop PCs, modern laptops still have certain components that users can upgrade, such as storage and memory. Both are required in modern games in ...

The big picture: DDR3 launched in 2007, when Intel's Core 2 Extreme and AMD's Phenom X4 were the best consumer processors on the market. The PC hardware scene has come a long way since then, but ...

TL;DR: DDR3 motherboards are becoming a lot more popular in China suddenly, as consumers seek to avoid the ridiculous price tags now pinned to more modern system RAM. Sales of those mobos have roughly ...

It's continued into 2026 with a near 10% increase in the price of DDR4 memory. With memory manufacturers doing little to alleviate supply issues, chip buyers are turning to older or less powerful RAM, ...

More RAM is coming, but the shortage isn't going away. Even with new production ramping up, the supply problems plaguing PC ...