What I Learned After Upgrading My RAM and Storage Last Month

Most people assume RAM is RAM. Slot it in, boot up, done. That's wrong. After upgrading my rig last month, a few things caught me off guard. Worth sharing before you make the same calls. DDR5 6000MHz sticks refused to POST until I manually set the XMP profile in BIOS. Your motherboard's QVL list matters more than the box specs. Check it before buying, not after. Storage gets trickier. Budget NVMe drives skip the DRAM cache to cut costs. That's a bad idea if you move large files regularly... Read more