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francol3

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Who know's when DDR4 is coming out? and when will it be integrated into all the motherboards?

should we all wait for DDR4 to be released before we upgrade our processors and motherboards again? how much gain will there be in DDR4 over DDR3? (seeing as GDDR5 is 2x as fast as DDR3??)
 
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well, I'd wait for DDR4, it'll be a lot better but will cost a fortune to get in your system. DDR3 is quite cheap nowdays with pretty good performance. I personally aren't going to upgrade for a while as my PC is only 7 weeks old, as my previous system was terrible. I have a 4930k and X79 Chipset, way good enough for now. But can't wait to see the X99 Boards with DDR4 that will accommodate the 5xxxk CPU's for LGA 2011 Sockets.

DDR4 is projected to hit mid/late this year but who knows really. There will be a pretty big gain over DDR4 but so will the price.
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well, I'd wait for DDR4, it'll be a lot better but will cost a fortune to get in your system. DDR3 is quite cheap nowdays with pretty good performance. I personally aren't going to upgrade for a while as my PC is only 7 weeks old, as my previous system was terrible. I have a 4930k and X79 Chipset, way good enough for now. But can't wait to see the X99 Boards with DDR4 that will accommodate the 5xxxk CPU's for LGA 2011 Sockets.

DDR4 is projected to hit mid/late this year but who knows really. There will be a pretty big gain over DDR4 but so will the price.
 
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Well I would say the time is now cause semiconductors industry is currently the most booming one (Remember Moore's Law). The new Iteration as it launches is not going to be cheap. ( I remember the launch of DDR3 when i had DDR 2,DDR when i had SDRAM all they had in common was the considerable high prices of new generation and regret for the people who just bought the new PC ) It would take around a year or more to normalize.You can build quite a good PC with current hardware that can easily keep up for 5 years. (The newer thing when released may be practically 10-15% faster with a similar hardware but at a greater price.)
 
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Easily keep up for five years, I don't think so, Especially with graphics cards, in 5 years time current top end graphics cards won't be able to keep up as They will be about 4 generations old, think about how much better graphics cards will be in 5 years. Games in 5 years will be so intense, A GTX 780Ti/R9 290X/7990/GTX 690 won't be able to play them no where near as good as in that time The current GTX series or R9 6XXX/7XXX would be able to. And on top, look at cards that were released 5 years ago.

To put this to you, 5 years ago, the GTX 200 Series came out, with their top end GTX 285 was amazing back then, looking at it now, Comparing it to the GTX 780Ti, completely utterly destroyed.
 
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"To keep up with according to me refers to something like it can be used happily though performance gradually dial down in newer tiltles that can be compensated by dialing down the details.

I too had a Geforce GTX 280 (which was the top notch card after 290 which was just the dual gpu 280) card which i replaced last year in March when Crysis 3 came out (The only DX11 title on that time) so keeping in mind it lasted for 4 years (could have lasted a year more if was not a Crysis fan).
Tough the card is weak compared to tech now it still equals a Radeon 7750 which can handle games at low at 1080p. But only the thing rendering it unusable are DX11 games which is not supported by it. So it adequately held up till 4-5 years.

So I guess even according to Moore's laws 3 cycles (18*3 cycles= 4years and 6months) the performance will be 1/4ed theoretically.Practically it will be less than that.

So I don't see any harm in buy a thing like GTX 780 on which i will be able to game from today to next 4-5 years but dialing down the details gradually. Thinking of 4 years of lifetime on a current top notch GPU is no harm.
 
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