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Darren Allan

Scared RAM price hikes will make your new PC a lot pricier? 'BYO RAM' is Maingear's answer – meaning you provide your own memory

Maingear BYO RAM scheme showing RAM sticks on a desk.
  • Maingear has launched a BYO RAM scheme
  • This allows buyers of prebuilt PCs to supply their own system RAM
  • Assuming you have RAM, or can get a good deal on DDR5 memory, this could save you some money on a new PC – albeit with caveats

Maingear has revealed a new scheme to give the buyers of its prebuilt PCs a possible workaround for the increased cost of these computers due to RAM price hikes – it's called BYO RAM.

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