{"id":1629792,"date":"2026-07-10T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/WzRsVvFLr4gD2HUabJ9q9V"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:04:58","slug":"what-memory-crisis-79-of-pc-gamer-readers-are-rocking-32-gb-or-more-ram-in-their-gaming-rigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/what-memory-crisis-79-of-pc-gamer-readers-are-rocking-32-gb-or-more-ram-in-their-gaming-rigs\/","title":{"rendered":"What memory crisis? 79% of PC Gamer readers are rocking 32 GB or more RAM in their gaming rigs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So, I’ve got to ask: Did you guys see this whole memory crisis coming a mile off, or what? Because, while we’re continually bemoaning the state of the industry with AI datacenter business hoarding all the available memory as fast as Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron can make it\u2014and the ensuing pricing batshittery that has followed it\u2014you lot have seemingly been securing yourselves against the RAMpocalypse.<\/p>\n

With the topic of widespread hardware price rises owing to this memory demand and supply issue being something that is almost permanently in our heads on the PCG hardware team, we thought it worth just finding out how you guys were faring in these troubling times.<\/p>\n

So, over the past week, we’ve been asking one simple question: How much RAM do you have in your current gaming rig?<\/strong> And the answers have been interestingly enlightening; basically, the vast majority of you had already protected yourself from the core issue by filling your machines with a whole lot of RAM already.<\/p>\n

I will admit I had my own expectations, which have been utterly overturned by the data you guys have provided. I thought that there would effectively be some level-pegging between those rocking 16 GB of RAM and those with 32 GB in their gaming PCs. But the numbers are not even close.<\/p>\n

A solid 50% of readers already have 32 GB of RAM in their main gaming PCs, which is by far the biggest contingent in the results. Those with 16 GB of RAM surprisingly only make up 18% of the readers who responded to the survey, which is actually less than the number of people who’ve gone even bigger with 64 GB of RAM. Golly.<\/p>\n

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