Is the DDR 4 ok for our processor AMD(FX/A-10)or Intel 4670/4770?
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Supernova1138
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DDR4 is supposedly being introduced with Intel's Haswell-E which will be late this year at the earliest, it likely won't appear on mainstream Intel sockets until Skylake in 2015 or 2016. The current Haswell chips will not support DDR4.
AMD is being really tight lipped about their future plans for CPUs. Rumor is that the FX line is over and done with and AMD will be producing APUs exclusively from here on out, ceding the midrange to high end CPU market to Intel exclusively. We don't know when AMD will add DDR4 support, but it won't be on any of their currently available chips.
In any case, DDR4 might not be all that relevant anyway. The performance difference we're seeing right now between 1600MHz DDR3 and 2133 MHz DDR3 is minimal at best, memory speed is simply not the deciding factor for performance right now. The only use that really benefits from faster RAM right now are the integrated graphics chips on AMD's APUs, where the faster RAM improves graphical performance. If you're looking to do a new build, now is about a good a time is any, there doesn't seem to be any huge leaps in CPU performance on the horizon at present.
AMD is being really tight lipped about their future plans for CPUs. Rumor is that the FX line is over and done with and AMD will be producing APUs exclusively from here on out, ceding the midrange to high end CPU market to Intel exclusively. We don't know when AMD will add DDR4 support, but it won't be on any of their currently available chips.
In any case, DDR4 might not be all that relevant anyway. The performance difference we're seeing right now between 1600MHz DDR3 and 2133 MHz DDR3 is minimal at best, memory speed is simply not the deciding factor for performance right now. The only use that really benefits from faster RAM right now are the integrated graphics chips on AMD's APUs, where the faster RAM improves graphical performance. If you're looking to do a new build, now is about a good a time is any, there doesn't seem to be any huge leaps in CPU performance on the horizon at present.
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