{"id":20579,"date":"2026-10-06T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:13:42","slug":"32gb-dethrones-16gb-as-top-ram-capacity-in-gaming-rigs-despite-memory-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20579","title":{"rendered":"32GB dethrones 16GB as top RAM capacity in gaming rigs despite memory shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jowi Morales  &bull; October 5, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Despite being in the midst of an unprecedented memory chip shortage , it seems that gamers are still willing to invest in their gaming PCs to extract the best performance out of their favorite titles. The September 2026 Steam Survey results show that 42.22% of the surveyed units now have 32GB of system RAM &amp;mdash; a 4.77% increase compared to the previous month &amp;mdash; while 16GB configurations have shrunk by 3.38%, falling to just 37.82%.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also seen increases in &amp;ldquo;weird&amp;rdquo; memory configurations &amp;mdash; 24GB has grown to 2.56%, increasing by 0.34%, while 48GB inched up to 1.46% after a 0.26% increase.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a surprise, as some manufacturers have reintroduced laptops w<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jowi Morales  &bull; October 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/pc-gaming\/32gb-ram-config-hits-top-spot-on-steam-survey-despite-memory-chip-shortage-amd-closing-in-on-intel-at-more-than-48-percent-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Tom&#8217;s Hardware &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story. Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull; Jowi Morales &bull; October 5, 2026 Despite being in the midst of an unprecedented memory chip shortage , it seems that gamers are still willing to invest in their gaming PCs to extract the best performance<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20579\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}