Today's PCs can accept up to 16 GB of RAM, and even the older machines can take up to 1 GB. This was not very useful information back in the Stone Age of, say, 1997, because back then, a RAM ...

If your computer starts to slow down when you run a few programs at the same time or run a particularly demanding program, you can try adding more memory to improve your computer's performance. A ...

We continue our series on building a workstation with another highly important component, memory. How do you choose what to buy? Of all the components of a computer, memory is the one which has ...

There’s an apocryphal quote floating around the internet that “640K ought to be enough memory for anybody” but it does seem unlikely that this was ever actually said by any famous computer moguls of ...

A computer's maximum supported system memory, or RAM, is contingent on the processor, the operating system and the motherboard. These three factors provide hardware and software limitations that ...

For years, the extent of PC memory innovation has been limited to "more" and "faster." There's nothing wrong with that, but Samsung's latest chip innovation comes at it from another angle. The company ...

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