If you've been experiencing slowdowns and stutters on your gaming PC in the last week or two, you may be getting increasingly frustrated and thinking, "maybe it's finally time to upgrade my RAM". Please, please, don't jump straight to that just yet, because it turns out that if you've had even one YouTube tab open, the website could be eating up 7GB or more of your existing memory and causing some big performance dips.
Especially amidst the current RAM shortages, when the best RAM for gaming can set you back more than a new CPU, you might be happy to learn that your current PC isn't giving up the ghost. In fact, it seems the YouTube bug has been causing problems all for a lot of people, with the first reports emerging on Reddit a few weeks ago.
