Hey I have an old pc that I am thinking about upgrading. The only thing that I wasn't planning on changing was my CPU, i7-4790. But the new RAM that I am getting has 3200MHz DDR4 speed but on intel's site it says that my CPU only supports "DDR3-1333/1600, DDR3L-1333/1600". Is there any point in buying that specific RAM if my CPU doesn't support anywhere near the speed the RAM runs on. And also do you think I should upgrade my CPU to a newer generation? Or is it sufficient and won't bottle neck my build with this RAM and GTX 1070.
Will my CPU be compatible with my new RAM?
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DDR4 will not work in a DDR3 motherboard. They are also keyed differently so they won't fit into each others slots. 4790 is still a good cpu and should not bottleneck a 1070.
How much faster is DDR4 than DDR3?
Should I go to i5-7600K instead of the old i7-4790? Going from i7 to i5 but 4th gen to 7th gen?
Or should I stay with i7-4790 and use DDR3 RAM instead?
I don't plan to go to 1440p. Only 1080p. But I want to be able to run every game at Max settings smoothly for at least the next year and a half
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There's not a big difference in speeds, definitely not enough to justify an upgrade. Same with your cpu, theres wasn't much of a IPC jump from 4th to 6th gen and none from 6th to 7th. Keep what you have.
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