nekrosoft13
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at this point no, don't care.
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In 2016, all Intel platforms will be using DDR4.
Well, then hopefully it will be as good as DDR3 by then.
I'd hate to have to upgrade to slower and more expensive RAM. That would be like the RDRAM thing all over again. :/
I'll be excited when the 128GB sticks come out (and don't cost a grand).
notepad.exe will never need more than the bare minimum.
With this said, it becomes increasingly difficult to sell to the consumer unless major revolutions occur in the core technology itself (ex. silicon to all graphine, or silicon to all optics). But even with that ... do you really 20TB+ of storage, 64-core x64 40GHz CPU, 512GB DDR RAM that has throughputs of over 1 TB per second, and a GPU with enough horsepower to render Crysis at a solid silky smooth 60fps at maximum quality settings at native resolution on less than 10 watts to do your web-surfing, Facebooking, listen to music, and e-mail?
What I would really like for is the inflation of memory prices to go down like they were a couple years ago. But I guess I can't complain about the next generation of RAM. With time it will get better. Hopefully.
I'm just going to wait until A) prices go from premium to normal B) DDR3 has signs of phasing out and C) Clear benchmarks to prove a significant increase in performance.
Nope because of the price premium it's sure to carry. And the marginal benefits (MHZ and CAS are comparable to current DDR3 for initial release, based on what I've seen so far).
It's not like you just get to choose whether you want to use ddr3 or ddr4 with the CPU of your choice. If you want haswell-e you're getting ddr4. It may be easy for all but the high end PC/workstation buyers to say "fine, I'll just skip that platform".
Once we get to the next mainstream chipset though, it becomes a question of whether you want to build a new Pc on the most future proof platform vs a last gen platform. Intel is not dumb, they won't force that on consumers until DDR4 manufacturing volumes approach the capacity needed to be the exclusive choice for their mainstream platform before they mKe that switch.
The technical pros and cons of the two ram types are almost secondary to platform choice and logistics.
I expect this to happen sometime in 2016 after both AMD and Intel have released their new sockets / CPUs that are DDR4 only.
Are there major benefits to ddr4 for gaming anyway?
I expect this to happen sometime in 2016 after both AMD and Intel have released their new sockets / CPUs that are DDR4 only.
Isn't that what the X99 platform is?