The relevance of RAM speed to PC gaming is one of the most enduring of component discussions. If you're putting together a gaming PC build how much attention and money should you pay towards dropping ...

Pushing your hardware to its full potential — such as by enabling XMP — ensures that you get the best performance which is crucial for all sorts of heavy tasks including gaming. Memory is one of the ...

AMD's all-new Zen 5 CPU core is going to debut with the launch of its "Strix Point" mobile processors in less than two weeks. However, those parts will largely be paired with soldered-down LPDDR5X ...

Welcome to ExtremeTech's comprehensive RAM guide, in which we'll answer a broad range of questions related to how much system RAM you need these days, whether or not it's worth it to upgrade older ...

Earlier this month we saw the AMD Ryzen 7 4700G hitting a staggering 4.7GHz, demonstrating the next-gen desktop APU's overclocking ability. The overclocks that we've seen so far seem to show the ...

If there’s one component in PCs that hasn’t really changed much over the past couple of decades, it’s memory. While newer memory generations have offered faster speeds and greater capacity support, ...

At first glance, seeing a string of numbers like "34-42-42-96" on RAM packaging might be puzzling -- but they carry important technical meaning. They refer to memory timings, with the first indicating ...

At first glance, seeing a string of numbers like "34-42-42-96" on RAM packaging might be puzzling — but they carry important technical meaning. They refer to memory timings, with the first indicating ...

Mark our words, this will be the year that we'll finally see a DDR5-10000 (or faster) memory kit offered at retail. It's only a matter of time, especially now that Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory ...

The other day we got the chance to check out our first DDR4 kit in the form of the Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2800 16GB Quad-Channel kit and found ourselves really impressed with what Corsair was ...