Now is a great time to upgrade your gaming desktops RAM for a very reasonable price, as Amazon is offering 32GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 3000 MHz DDR4 DRAM for just $104.22. This comes as a pair of 16GB sticks, offering a combined total of 32GB. This isn’t the fastest of best performing RAM available, but at this price, it’s going to be tough to beat. Whilst this offer is primarily intended for users wanting to install 32GB of RAM into their system, it would also be an excellent budget option for equipping two separate systems with 16GB each.
This RAM operates at 3000 MHz speeds, and even before this latest price drop, we picked it as our top choice for budget gaming RAM. Down from $154.99, this is the lowest price it’s ever been offered at.
If you are perhaps looking for faster RAM, and can be a bit more flexible with your budget, we’d suggest paying the extra to get Corsair Vengeance RAM instead. This is the next best alternative in terms of value, and still quite reasonably priced at $119.99.
32GB of RAM will be more than enough for the vast majority of users, and it’s probably going to be quite some time before we see games that require 32GB of RAM, never mind more than 32GB. If a lack of RAM is currently bottlenecking your gaming performance, this is a cheap and easy upgrade that could produce impressive results in RAM intensive tasks.
If you want a breakdown of how different RAM speeds will impact real-world performance, we have a guide to the technical details of how that all works over here, but the broad upshot is that faster ram helps games run faster. Exact results will depend on your other component choices, which games you’re playing, and how balanced your machine is overall, but systems with slower low capacity RAM, these Crucial Ballistix modules will be a useful and meaningful upgrade.