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RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!
(hackaday.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I’ve noticed my ram speed much less than the amount of ram for quite some time.
SSDs were game changers.
My mom and dad both have ancient machines at home and I swapped both to SATA SSDs. The improvement was incredible. They went from basically unusable, in my opinion, to completely functional for anything they would be doing.