How to avoid high RAM prices over the holidays

If you are planning to buy some new RAM for your PC or as a gift for someone else’s PC this holiday season, it won’t take long to realize that prices have completely exited the realm of reality.

The ongoing RAM crisis — RAMageddon, as I’ve seen some call it — is not only making PC building and laptop upgrades difficult, but it’s also threatening to drive up the prices of practically all tech that uses DRAM (and that’s a lot of tech). I recently wrote a more in-depth look at what is causing RAM…