DDR3 VS DDR4 and overclocking ram

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fudgecakes99

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What is the difference i mean in terms of just general application use. Or more so these two sticks specifically.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231677&cm_re=ddr3-_-20-231-677-_-Product

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233752&cm_re=ddr4-_-20-233-752-_-Product

So what i do know is that generally ddr4 is double the bandwidth of ddr3 and ddr4 uses less power to run at the same or higher speeds then ddr3. I understand that much outside of a server environment i don't see any benefits. So what i'm asking is a couple things.

At the speeds that will be useable for ddr4 on skylake 170 mobo's is it worth upgrading? Will i have a noticeable difference in loading times general application use between those two types of ram? Is it overall worth switching from ddr3 to ddr4 i'm assuming it's not but i just want to reaffirm my beliefs.

If i oced ddr4 ram would i get noticeable improvements or is it just like ddr3 where it's not actually accountable unless you use copius amounts of ram 64gb+.
 
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Any time you look into DRAM one needs to look at price to performance, a lot of it depends on what you do and what benefits you or the rig might gain from upping data rates - i.e. most people don't need really high data rates, they just don't do enough with the rig to justify the expense, then there are others that will really work a rig, say doing video work for a living or extremely often, those that heavily multi-task work with very large data sets or memory centric apps, running multiple VMs, etc
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I would imagine that would be the same for overclocking having 1600 mhz would be the sweet spot on ddr3 ram right?
 
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So the same would apply for skylake then?
 
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yeah but is their really that much of a massive difference between two sticks of 1600-1866 mhz of ddr3 vs 2133 of ddr4? At least in terms of the applications i plan on using it seems like a waste. Plus why spend the extra cash on ddr3 memory when i know for a fact higher speeds will be released later in the life cycle. I figure save some cash on ddr3 now buy ddr4 ram later when its cheaper and better?
 
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if i had to choose between a stck of 2600 and 2800 both had ddr4 and both had 16 cas latency would the 2800 one be the better choice? or would it not matter?
 
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but then the question is would it warrant it. I mean 2600 mhz ddr4 ram same cl timings at 144 vs 2800 mhz at 229 doesn't seem to justify that when i could almost buy twice the amount of 2600 for the same price.
 
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Any time you look into DRAM one needs to look at price to performance, a lot of it depends on what you do and what benefits you or the rig might gain from upping data rates - i.e. most people don't need really high data rates, they just don't do enough with the rig to justify the expense, then there are others that will really work a rig, say doing video work for a living or extremely often, those that heavily multi-task work with very large data sets or memory centric apps, running multiple VMs, etc
 
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