is DDR4 worth it?

Doorstopper

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Im going to be building a new gaming/workstation pc, and was wondering if I should buy the new x99 mobo to get support for DDR4 memory. or would I be ok to just stay with a ddr3 on a z97 board. I wont be upgrading again for at least a year or two. Money isn't an issue here, I just want to know if I should go with the newer ram or not.

EDIT: Also I forgot to mention that with the new ram, they only come with a CAS Latency of 15 or 16
 
Solution
Read the boatload of reviews and see for yourself.

At a glance, it does not look like the higher latency on DDR4 is hurting Haswell-E much at all compared to IB-E.