Installing RAM in your PC is one of the easiest, yet most crucial tasks. Do it the right way, and you should have a faster, more responsive PC that is better at handling your commands. However, not ...

Outside of situations where you know for sure you need more memory, most people start to think about upgrading their RAM when their PC starts to feel slow. But it isn’t always the right fix. Memory is ...

Modern computers have so many layers of storage. You have the registers where the processor stores its work, then a few levels of progressively slower and larger caches, your main system memory, and ...

RAM is your PC's short-term memory, so it's incredibly important. If your laptop supports RAM upgrades, swapping out the existing sticks for something faster can be a straightforward way to see some ...

Here's why your computer keeps freezing and how you can fix it without replacing the RAM When your computer slows to a crawl and struggles with even basic tasks, like switching between apps, it’s ...

The big picture: Laptop memory was once easily upgradable, but the advent of soldered-down DIMMs in recent years has made RAM upgrades almost impossible in modern notebooks. That, however, is set to ...

A new low-power, high-speed memory technology on the horizon could replace solid-state drives, hard drives and DRAM in PCs, and bring higher levels of storage capacity to mobile devices and wearables.

"Memory overseer JEDEC will formally adopt the 'CAMM Common Spec' as the next RAM module standard for laptops spelling the end of the 25 year old SO-DIMM standard. JEDEC committee member, and Dell ...

Laptop RAM is facing a conundrum. The SODIMM standard — which is basically a shrunken form of desktop RAM modules — is almost 25 years old and facing an upcoming speed wall. With the demand for ...

Most laptops released over the past two decades have used replaceable SODIMM sticks for memory although a growing number of thin and light systems in recent years have featured non-replaceable LPDDR ...