The Hidden Cost of the RAM Crisis: Why Memory Prices Might Not Be Your only PC Upgrade Worry

The hidden cost of the RAM crisis: why memory prices might not be your only PC upgrade worry

The RAM crisis is everywhere you look these days, and it’s impossible to go a day without seeing more headlines predicting doom and gloom for tech lovers worldwide. But there’s another side to this grim situation — one that I wouldn’t even have thought about if it wasn’t directly affecting me. It all comes down to the hidden costs of upgrading your PC, costs that sky-high memory prices have stretched to breaking point. Because for certain people…

Why are RAM prices so high right now?

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I Love Handheld Gaming PCs, but I'm Worried That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Might Kill Them Off Altogether

Over the last five years or so, handheld gaming PCs have become one of my favorite ways to play games. And, it helps that they’ve been getting better pretty much every year, thanks both to more powerful hardware – shout out to the Intel Arc G3 Extreme – and both Microsoft and Valve improving their respective operating systems. If I was able to totally ignore costs, I’d straight up just say that the handhelds that have come out in the last year a…