RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

Now, as the year winds down, we’re facing price spikes for memory and storage that are unlike anything I’ve seen in two ...
TweakTown

Skyrocketing DDR5 RAM prices reportedly have an effect on motherboard sales, which have halved

TL;DR: Soaring DDR5 RAM prices have caused a 40-50% drop in motherboard sales for ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE, forcing them to lower 2025 sales targets. This decline impacts new PC builds and may lead to ...
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Prepping 101 architecture diagram for gear organization

Prepping 101 architecture diagram for organizing survival gear efficiently. Weather warning issued before Chiefs-Texans game Royal expert shares why King Charles might live to regret Andrew eviction ...

Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'

For maximum security, Asus recommends that you "download and update the BIOS to the specified version from the official website and, in the BIOS Setup Utility, configure the IOMMU DMA Protection ...

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

If you have an Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, or ASRock motherboard, you need to update the BIOS if you want to continue playing Valorant. That's because a critical flaw was recently found that allows cheaters ...
Hackaday

CPU architecture

When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively new ...
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Memory apocalypse kneecaps motherboard sales by as much as 50%, and CPU sales might be next

I'm not sure I love that we've started flippantly calling it 'the memory apocalypse,' but given just how much hardware this peaking pricing could affect, it does feel fitting. Motherboard sales are ...
Ars Technica

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

It’s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it’s actually ...
PC Magazine

The Best Motherboards for 2025

Building a desktop PC, or upgrading an aging one? Here's all you need to know about choosing the right motherboard—plus, our top tested picks in boards for the latest AMD and Intel CPU platforms. I ...
MyBroadband

Memory and SSD prices in South Africa skyrocket with no signs of stopping

Memory and SSD prices are experiencing unprecedented global surges, a trend that is being acutely felt in South Africa, Craig Nowitz, the CEO of IT distributor Syntech, has told MyBroadband. “What ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Pooling CPU Memory for LLM Inference With Lower Latency and Higher Throughput (UC Berkeley)

“The rapid growth of LLMs has revolutionized natural language processing and AI analysis, but their increasing size and memory demands present significant challenges. A common solution is to spill ...