Memory channels are one of those quiet design choices that can make a gaming PC feel snappy or strangely sluggish, even when the CPU and GPU look strong on paper. The difference between running a ...

Memory speed doesn’t have a substantial impact during heavy workloads, but there’s enough of a difference to distinguish between various products. Here we can see, the Sport LT dual channel kit at ...

As we hop in the way-back machine and recall some of the first few sets of DDR we owned, we remember using something called "Value Ram" at that time. While it was more affordable than others on the ...

Core i7 has come out and it's a hard hitting product. Not only is it a new platform based around the Core micro architecture, its native quad core design really packs a punch, too. With this, Intel ...

Final Thoughts: Is Single-Channel a Passable Stopgap? So, the big question: is it time to embrace the single life? Well, the benchmarks show a pretty clear picture. If you’re building a no-compromise ...

Triple versus Dual-channel memory. We've been talking about triple channel memory configurations a lot. This doesn't mean that 2 DIMMs wouldn't work in dual-channel configuration on a Core i7 platform ...

Earlier this week, we covered Anandtech's exhaustive evaluation of multiple laptops powered by AMD's Carrizo APU. The results were ugly for reasons that had little to do with AMD -- while Carrizo's ...

My mother has a all-in-one touch PC that she bought several years ago (came with 6 GB DDR3 RAM originally). The system is running Win8.1 but I wish to upgrade the memory. The two slots are populated ...

How does RAM memory actually work ? Adding RAM (random access memory) will normally cause your computer to feel faster on certain types of operations. Some applications (think Photoshop or most movie ...