Corsair Intros 3000MHz Vengeance Extreme DDR3 Kit

[tomfreak]

with all these speed in DDR3, do we have any reason to switch to DDR4? I guess not much.

 

[blazorthon]

with all these speed in DDR3, do we have any reason to switch to DDR4? I guess not much.

If you'd rather pay almost $800 for 8GB DDR3-3000 over say $40 for 16GB DDR4-3000 or even faster and higher capacity for such a price, then there might be little reason for DDR4 for you 😉

DDR4 is bringing the capability of extremely high capacities compared to what we have today at much lower prices for various reasons, perhaps none more impacting in this way than the chip stacking.

 

[tomfreak]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]If you'd rather pay almost $800 for 8GB DDR3-3000 over say $40 for 16GB DDR4-3000 or even faster and higher capacity for such a price, then there might be little reason for DDR4 for you DDR4 is bringing the capability of extremely high capacities compared to what we have today at much lower prices for various reasons, perhaps none more impacting in this way than the chip stacking.[/citation]it is just an overclock DDR3, it is going to get cheaper anyway. 2133 was super expensive back then, 1600 was also very expensive.

other than APU/iGPU, I could not see a reason to switch over to DDR4 when 1 single stick of 1333 is capable to feed 4 Ivy bridge cores for most mainstream user.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]If you'd rather pay almost $800 for 8GB DDR3-3000 over say $40 for 16GB DDR4-3000 or even faster and higher capacity for such a price, then there might be little reason for DDR4 for you DDR4 is bringing the capability of extremely high capacities compared to what we have today at much lower prices for various reasons, perhaps none more impacting in this way than the chip stacking.[/citation]it is just an overclock DDR3, it is going to get cheaper anyway. 2133 was super expensive back then, 1600 was also very expensive.

other than APU/iGPU, I could not see a reason to switch over to DDR4 when 1 single stick of 1333 is capable to feed 4 Ivy bridge cores for most mainstream user.

The point is mostly about cost and power consumption, as I've already said, not performance. The performance may even become more important with future workloads. As CPU utilization of many threads gets more common and CPUs get faster, better memory performance will get more important, especially if we end up making more use out of the integrated graphics and/or FPUs.

Ivy Bridge is hardly important for this since it will never support DDR4 anyway. Also, I 'd bet that DDR3-3000 will never be affordable. DDR4 will be out long before DDR3-3000 could become affordable.

The first DDR3-2133 2x4GB kit came out at about $200 IIRC and that was a time when RAM was much more expensive than it is now about two years ago. That's only a little over a fourth of this DDR3-3000 2x4GB kit. The two situations are fairly different. Even if we go regardless of the capacity, DDR3-2133 still wasn't this bad for its time when it first came out IIRC. Again, I also repeat that DDR3-3000 simply won't get that chance to become affordable anyway because DDR4 will hit well before there is both reason and capability to mass-produce DDR3-3000 and sell at mainstream pricing.

 

[master9716]

Nothing beats the looks of the Crucial Tactical Tracer , these sticks for being so fast look crapy

 

[f-14]

for that price i'll wait for DDR5 with intels 4th gen cpus, the voltage and timing will probably be 10-10-10-32 at 1.3V and sell for $200 per 8GB

 

[Duckhunt]

desktops are dieing. So who cares. The laptops are throw away objects. 99% of folk don't have the tools to do reballing and other sh+t.

 

[g-unit1111]

remember when RAMs were rated at CL2?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

Why did it take me this long to catch that Futurama reference? :lol: :lol: