RAM prices surge: What it means for PC building in 2026

Dave and Jacob discuss the upcoming year in PC hardware. Everything from the RAMpocalypse (thanks, AI) and how that will affect PC gaming, to the next wave of releases including CPUs, GPUs and Valve’s new hardware. We try our best to be positive, promise.

0:00 – Introduction 00:18 – The RAMpocalypse 01:18 – RAM pricing in 2026 03:35 – The knock-on effect 07:55 – New platforms coming in 2026 07:59 – Intel’s Panther Lake 08:42 – Nova Lake 10:50 – AMD Zen 6 12:00 – Snapdragon X2 Elite 13:26 – New Valve hardware 13:50 – Are people sleeping on the Steam Frame? 14:17 – Valve product pricing 17:27 – The Steam Deck 2 17: 56 – The Steam Controller could be a hit 18:17 – Nvidia Arm laptop 20:46 – Graphics cards in 2026 20:54 – RTX 50-series Super cards 22:16 – Intel GPUs 23:57 – Trends in 2026

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