My Recent RAM Upgrade Just Quadrupled in Price. Here's Why I'm Not Mad.

2026-02-26 11:57:00 ET

Last summer, the workstation I use for writing these articles felt sluggish. You know how it goes, right? I'm using the same web browsers and word processor as always, but every page comes with a dozen traffic trackers and a bunch of ads that weren't there five years ago, when I last upgraded my computer memory. It was time for a couple of new memory sticks in my Frankenbox with parts acquired and upgraded in waves between 2010 and 2022.

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So I ordered 64 gigabytes of DDR4 memory in October 2025, tripling the memory capacity. It cost $95 with free shipping from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) , and I could have gotten a similar deal from Newegg (NASDAQ: NEGG) or Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) . It was the right medicine, and this old Linux box has been smooth as silk in the past four months.

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