With the price of memory continuing to skyrocket, PC builders may be forced to get creative. A new ASRock motherboard might be one answer, with the ability to add either DDR4 or DDR5 memory via dedicated memory slots for either.

The ASRock H610m Combo — or, if interest rises, potentially more like it — offers a hedge against the DRAM pricing apocalypse, as noted by UNIKO’s Hardware on Twitter and HotHardware . The company doesn’t mention any pricing, however.

Older DDR4 memory is being phased out, reducing the available supply and increasing prices accordingly. That’s caused prices to jump sharply: As noted by PCPartPicker , a pair of 16GB sticks of DDR4-3600 jumped from about $75 or so in June to just north of $225 in December, about tripling. But DDR-5 DRAM, snapped up by AI hy

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