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August 30, 2014 11:52:48 AM

I will be doing the upgrade to DDR4, using my computer for Adobe AE, PP, etc. As well as blender and FL Studio.

I currently have 32gb of Ballistix Tactical at 1600

Rumor has it that DDR4 has 2X the bandwidth of DDR3. Does that mean that 16gb of DDR4 2133 or 2800 would do the same work as 32gb at 1600??

My Question all in all is this: Should I get 16gb of 2800 or 32gb of 2133?

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August 30, 2014 11:58:08 AM

kneeyuhguh said:
I will be doing the upgrade to DDR4, using my computer for Adobe AE, PP, etc. As well as blender and FL Studio.

I currently have 32gb of Ballistix Tactical at 1600

Rumor has it that DDR4 has 2X the bandwidth of DDR3. Does that mean that 16gb of DDR4 2133 or 2800 would do the same work as 32gb at 1600??

My Question all in all is this: Should I get 16gb of 2800 or 32gb of 2133?

My question is:
1, Do you have a Haswell-E CPU?
2, Do you have a X99 board?
Without these, you can't upgrade to DDR4.
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August 30, 2014 12:12:36 PM

kneeyuhguh said:
Rumor has it that DDR4 has 2X the bandwidth of DDR3. Does that mean that 16gb of DDR4 2133 or 2800 would do the same work as 32gb at 1600??

My Question all in all is this: Should I get 16gb of 2800 or 32gb of 2133?

Bandwidth has nothing to do with capacity, at least not directly. And DDR4 doesn't have higher bandwidth than DDR3, at least not yet. At the same clocks (and the same number of channels), DDR3 and DDR4 have the same bandwidth.

If you use no more than 16GB memory, then 16GB at 2800 will be superior to 32GB at 2133. But it's the other way around if you use more than 16GB. The top priority is to have enough memory for what you're going to be doing, then after that you can worry about clocks etc.
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August 31, 2014 8:12:05 AM

zeyuanfu said:
kneeyuhguh said:
I will be doing the upgrade to DDR4, using my computer for Adobe AE, PP, etc. As well as blender and FL Studio.

I currently have 32gb of Ballistix Tactical at 1600

Rumor has it that DDR4 has 2X the bandwidth of DDR3. Does that mean that 16gb of DDR4 2133 or 2800 would do the same work as 32gb at 1600??

My Question all in all is this: Should I get 16gb of 2800 or 32gb of 2133?

My question is:
1, Do you have a Haswell-E CPU?
2, Do you have a X99 board?
Without these, you can't upgrade to DDR4.


I will be purchasing a new board cpu and ram
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August 31, 2014 8:17:29 AM

kneeyuhguh said:
zeyuanfu said:
kneeyuhguh said:
I will be doing the upgrade to DDR4, using my computer for Adobe AE, PP, etc. As well as blender and FL Studio.

I currently have 32gb of Ballistix Tactical at 1600

Rumor has it that DDR4 has 2X the bandwidth of DDR3. Does that mean that 16gb of DDR4 2133 or 2800 would do the same work as 32gb at 1600??

My Question all in all is this: Should I get 16gb of 2800 or 32gb of 2133?

My question is:
1, Do you have a Haswell-E CPU?
2, Do you have a X99 board?
Without these, you can't upgrade to DDR4.


I will be purchasing a new board cpu and ram

OK, so bandwidth is the amount of stuff that could get transferred. 32 GB would hold MUCH more stuff than 16 GB, even if the 16 GB is faster. If you do intense stuff and multitask, I would get the 32 GB.
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September 25, 2014 3:29:05 PM

If you're shelling out the big bucks, your options are i7-4960X (DDR3) and i7-5960X (DDR4). As far as overall memory bandwidth, they are about the same when comparing the same DRAM frequency, but the newer platform and DDR4 has a slight advantage that make it the clear buy especially at the same price.

Notice the order is not matched frequency for frequency.. but you can read and compare

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/xcgal/albums/userpics/G....

As far as capacity, just make sure to purchase the maximum amount you need. If you have 16GB, and the system uses close to that, the system will begin to slow down. 32GB is quite a bit of RAM, but there are many uses for unused RAM such as RAMdisk so it just depends on the user. :) 
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