DDR4

[Quixote]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/micron-ddr4-dram-memory-ram,15556.html#xtor=RSS-998

What do you think this brings to the table? Excited? Over-rated? Will you have 64 gigs of RAM? It's a little old news, but any thoughts? To think I was just about to grab some DDR3 the other day.

 

[Fehnor]

Initial speeds of the devices will reach 2,400 MT/s and eventually hit 3,200 MT/s.

Most retail MBs can't be used with DDR4, let alone keep up with the speed. The article mentions Intel pushing in 2014, meaning most MBs will not be compatible until then. Regardless, with DDR4 you are looking at a whole system upgrade (at least chip/mb/ram) which in 2014 will probably cost $600-$800). Before dropping that kind of money, I want to make sure it works, and it's cool.
Waiting usually works best with this sort of thing.

Overrated. get some DDR3, the new stuff won't work in your comp anyway. DDR3 will be significantly less expensive as well.

 

[Cookie Eating Huskarl]

Just got a 4gb*2 1600MHz 8gb kit for 50 USD. Stuff is cheap and replaceable.

 

[Kevlar]

Once it comes out if it isn't at a reasonable price difference than ddr3 that will be hard to ever justify getting until they make it on par for price with ddr3.

Guess it is time to start stockpiling ddr3 for when this happens and prices go up.

 

[havoc]

Will you have 64 gigs of RAM?

And the point to that would be?

 

[Cookie Eating Huskarl]

Massive show off-ing in LAN parties I suppose.

 

[Splintert]

Minecraft will use it!

 

[Kevlar]

Virtual machines and RAMdisks?

This

Minecraft will use it!

And this.

Ram disk data farm for a minecraft server would be pretty cool, I already know most of the higher end servers use something like that.

 

[tompaw0w]

Most retail MBs can't be used with DDR4

Think it's just a matter of time mate.

 

[Splintert]

Well I was just kinda joking about how Minecraft uses so much RAM for no apparent reason. But yeah, that works too.

Besides,  DDR3-2000 is already too fast for the rest of your system, why buy this stuff?

 

[Kevlar]

Besides,  DDR3-2000 is already too fast for the rest of your system, why buy this stuff?

Why buy anything if what we have is fast enough for what we do?

I am sure DDR1 was fine for its time too.

 

[Splintert]

Eventually it won't be fast enough of course. But being a first adopter of brand new technologies is usually pointless unless you have explicit reason to do so, or money to burn, in which case I could use one of those GTX 670's Nvidia released.

 

[Archonsod]

Virtual machines and RAMdisks?

Wouldn't make much difference for VM's. Unless you've got a desktop version of ESXi or the like.

Besides,  DDR3-2000 is already too fast for the rest of your system, why buy this stuff?

You do realise memory speed is somewhat meaningless unless you're comparing different architectures, right?

 

[Splintert]

I'm not quite sure what you mean.