A specification to look for is DDR (double data rate) type (DDR4 is the standard right now).\u00a0 You should also consider frequency, measured in megahertz (MHz).\u00a0 3200 MHz RAM is plenty fast and won\u2019t break the bank either.\u00a0 And finally, CAS latency.\u00a0 A CAS latency of 16 gives you a perfect balance between price and performance.\u00a0 The lower the CAS latency, the better, because it measures the number of clock cycles that pass from when an instruction is given for a particular column, and the moment the data is available (integralmemory.com).\u00a0 It\u2019s essentially a measurement of time, so you want it to be lower.\u00a0 A decent 16GB kit of DDR4 memory will cost roughly $65.\u00a0 Specifically, a nice budget kit is the $53 Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16GB DDR4-3000 CL16.\u00a0 If you have a bit of a higher budget and want some tasteful RGB lighting, consider the Crucial Ballistix RGB 16GB DDR4-3600 CL16.\u00a0 If money is no object, try the crazy G.Skill Trident Z RGB 64GB DDR4-3600 CL16.\u00a0 Prominent companies that you can count on include Corsair, G.Skill, Teamgroup, Kingston\/HyperX, ADATA, Crucial, and Patriot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Storage<\/strong> comes in two main forms: hard drives and solid state drives (SSDs).\u00a0 I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard of the classic hard drive.\u00a0 But you may be surprised to learn that SSDs are significantly faster and come at reasonable prices.\u00a0 You all know what storage is, and I\u2019m sure you always crave more of it to store all your favorite applications and games.\u00a0 Well you\u2019re in luck, because it\u2019s actually pretty affordable.\u00a0 For your main storage drive to store big files, pictures, videos, your game library and applications, and more, you should get a hefty hard drive.\u00a0 To boot into your computer as quickly as possible, you should get an SSD, which will have less space than your hard drive in most cases.\u00a0 The faster your drive is, the faster you will boot into applications, and the faster data will transfer.\u00a0 Hard drives are rectangular-shaped, and fit into cages in your PC case.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n SSDs come in a few forms. Standard SATA SSDs look just like hard drives, but are a little smaller, and also fit into cages within your system. There are also M.2 SSDs that run at the same speeds as SATA SSDs, but fit into a compact slot on your motherboard. These SSDs look kind of like RAM, but they\u2019re even smaller and thinner. M.2 NVMe SSDs are the sweet spot you should look for. They are very fast, and look the same as the aforementioned M.2 variety, but they are much faster, and yet still attainable. The fastest SSD type would be the PCI-e Gen4 SSD. These are still relatively new, and very expensive, but if you can afford them, go for it! These extreme SSDs also fit into an M.2 slot, but they take up PCI-e lanes nonetheless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A solid storage configuration is a 2TB hard drive coupled with a 480-512GB SSD.\u00a0 A good 2TB 7200 RPM (faster than the other hard drive speed of 5400 RPM) will go for about $55.\u00a0 A decent 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD will cost you roughly $60.\u00a0 For example, a nice budget hard drive is the Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 7200 RPM, at just $45.\u00a0 A big step up that would keep your wallet content at the same time is an NVMe SSD like the $60 Crucial P2 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD.\u00a0 An exorbitant performance king is the $180 Corsair MP600 Force 1TB PCI-e Gen4 NVMe SSD, which delivers top-of-the-line speeds.\u00a0 Brands that are often deemed trustworthy in this space are Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Crucial, Silicon Power, Kingston, Sabrent, Teamgroup, ADATA, Corsair, and Gigabyte\/AORUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RAM (random access memory) is responsible for how many tasks can be running on your computer at the same time.\u00a0 Many people interchange the words \u201cmemory\u201d and \u201cstorage,\u201d but this is a common misconception.\u00a0 Memory is responsible for \u201cmemorizing\u201d what you have open on your computer.\u00a0 It\u2019s essentially short-term storage.\u00a0 Storage, on the other hand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":12772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/pyEigIfbxa8nOjk0fL0kcjn2QorBsfHPamRwzPZSZUW91v4EF7dmN93d31tN8Zswa6SVKDeI9qBc-mSIsPnewsL5mMKjbQrLJUHqrze-QHlXUW3qXKkTP9BgiJgtvnTM6b8s_scr\")
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