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Alex Blake

The hidden cost of the RAM crisis: why memory prices might not be your only PC upgrade worry

Upset gamer with her head in her hands.

The RAM crisis is everywhere you look these days, and it’s impossible to go a day without seeing more headlines predicting doom and gloom for tech lovers worldwide. But there’s another side to this grim situation — one that I wouldn’t even have thought about if it wasn’t directly affecting me.

It all comes down to the hidden costs of upgrading your PC, costs that sky-high memory prices have stretched to breaking point. Because for certain people, picking some new components for your computer is more complicated than simply wincing as you add a new set of memory to your online basket. When one new part necessitates changing several others, costs can balloon and upgrading becomes a whole lot more daunting.

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