Scared RAM price hikes will make your new PC a lot pricier? 'BYO RAM' is Maingear's answer – meaning you provide your own memory

• Maingear has launched a BYO RAM scheme
• This allows buyers of prebuilt PCs to supply their own system RAM
• Assuming you have RAM, or can get a good deal on DDR5 memory, this could save you some money on a new PC – albeit with caveats

Maingear has revealed a new scheme to give the buyers of its prebuilt PCs a possible workaround for the increased cost of these computers due to RAM price hikes – it's called BYO RAM.

I guess that should be BYOR, technically, but the principle is as you'd expect – you're providing the system memory for the PC Maingear is selling you.

The prospective scenario is as follows: obviously buying a PC with 16GB (or 32GB ideally) of contemporary system RAM is a lot pricier now, with hikes meaning the cost of DDR5 memory has shot up at an unbelievable pace.