Thinking of upgrading to DDR4 this holiday, have a few questions.

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Hey so I am thinking about upgrading to DDR4 this holiday season. Was going to just double my DDR3 RAM but then saw the change is starting and thought I might as well do it now. I understand that I will need a new mobo, looking at maybe grabbing gigabytes gaming one (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128835) since I have always been happy with their graphics cards and then grabbing these RAM sticks (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231929) to start off. My first question is 1) how are those components? can I do better? I chose them based off aesthetics and what I thought looked like good products but I am not super computer part savy
2) Will I need a processor upgrade? As of now I am running an i5-3750k (i think, I'll double check when I get home) that I bought when I first built my computer 4 years ago. Does everything I need it to but do I need a more current gen one for this new hardware?

Thanks for any and all help, I really appreciate it.
 
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Well you can't mix and match DDR3 and DDR4, not can you buy a DDR4 motherboard that works with your current CPU.

Do you really even need 16GB? 99% of things are fine with 8GB. I would stick with the 8GB for now and save the $100 and buy a new system when you want. IF you really need 16GB now, then go for it, and just get more DDR3. Then you play the memory lottery, and trying to get 2 different RAM chips to work together. Not always as easy as buying another 8GB and putting it in.
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You CPU isn't compatible, so you'd need a new CPU too.

Really your CPU is still good and not much behind the latest DDR4-Skylake CPU's in terms of performance and dumping $500-$600 on a newer I5, MB, DDR4 is only going to get you a small performance upgrade. Not worth it IMO.
 
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So I guess to phrase this another way, I'm probably gonna up grade my RAM (from 8gb to 16 gb) anyways in the next few months. Should I spend the money now and just do a full upgrade to DDR4 or should I spend the 100 now and then rebuy everything at a later time. I was just thinking that buy RAM twice might be a waste of money when I could just upgrade now and get it over with and have something that would last me another 4-5 years.
 
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Well you can't mix and match DDR3 and DDR4, not can you buy a DDR4 motherboard that works with your current CPU.

Do you really even need 16GB? 99% of things are fine with 8GB. I would stick with the 8GB for now and save the $100 and buy a new system when you want. IF you really need 16GB now, then go for it, and just get more DDR3. Then you play the memory lottery, and trying to get 2 different RAM chips to work together. Not always as easy as buying another 8GB and putting it in.
 
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makes sense to me man, thanks for the input. maybe wait a little longer for the DDR4 upgrade until there is a bigger difference between DDR3 and DDR4?
 
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DDR4 offers bigger capacity really as it's biggest selling point right now. Non-server motherboards can go up to 64 or 128gb. Great for the consumer doing memory intensive tasks taht don't want to dump $1000 on ECC ram and boards. Speed wise, not a huge diff.
 
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