Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

CPU makers person noticed that the seemingly unending RAM terms hikes are making it pugnacious for a batch of america to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A instrumentality to last-gen DDR4 RAM. Intel and AMD are making caller CPUs that'll enactment the older, much affordable benignant of memory.

On Friday, Gigabyte announced that 2 of its motherboard lines volition enactment "upcoming" processors built connected Intel's LGA 1700 socket. That socket debuted successful 2021 with the 12th gen Alder Lake CPUs and supported some DDR4 RAM and the then-new DDR5 RAM. Intel dropped it for a DDR5-only attack successful 2024. But according to Gigabyte, the dual format enactment is present being revived, with caller …

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