The RAM crisis is completely warping my usual PC-building advice, so here's a fresh priority list for anyone looking to build or upgrade a PC

Oh, AI expansion, is there nothing you can't ruin? It seems like there's always some drama in the world of modern generative AI, whether it's ChatGPT 5.2 ruining some functionality of previous versions, or Elon Musk's Grok merrily producing explicit content, or Microsoft ruining Windows with Copilot, or Microsoft ruining Windows some more with Copilot, or Microsoft ruining Windows even more with Copilot, or... well, you get the idea (and yes, those are three separate stories).

The latest AI chicanery to grind my gears is, unsurprisingly, the RAM crisis. AI datacenters require a lot of hardware, and we've been seeing the impacts of this new industry's growth for a while now, with GPU and SSD prices slowly creeping up, but the price of memory in particular has spiked aggressively since December, with 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costing ...