I was browsing for SSD and found out that DDR4 ram is much much cheaper then DDR3. Can get 16gb for just 50 euro, i pay double that for DDR3. :bang: EDIT: It looks like ram in general is cheaper now, cause of work i don't browse that much anymore.
It is the new standard, therefore the production is bigger and the prices go down. This is a good thing, so why complain? Move on to X99 or Z170. (I am waiting for broadwell-e)
Seems like the smaller memory chips are helping quite a bit in reducing the overall price. Besides that, it's been some time since DDR4 came on the market. Inital R&D costs are steadily being returned because the overall sales are higher than before. Just a guess of course!
I know what you mean I recently had to build a somewhat decent gaming rig and wanted DDR3-2133, of course for the lowest price and almost ended up buying DDR4 by accident :giggle2:
I remember someone here saying in a thread that they bought, at that time, a pair of ddr4, he( you, maybe?) at that time didn't have ddr4 compatible gear. Thought it was funny, new tech hype.
They "claim" it's the new standard. Really though, DDR3 is fast enough for a lot of people. I just got a 32GB DDR3 kit for my setup not too long ago so I can properly support a Video card in the future with a large amount of Vram. 4790K let alone a 3770k, if properly taken care of and OC'd well, well they just aren't going anywhere for a long time. The only reason to upgrade if anything is the chipset and some specific features that most probably...a non-gamer may need. Extreme series chips are great and all...but the cost is very high. Most gamers even at 4K can afford a monitor before a whole Intel extreme rig. These chips can blaze through 2K Gsync at 144hz. So I dunno....standard shmandard. I don't see a need to upgrade anything on this rig unless its possibly a video card later on.
With DDR4 it also depends on the speed, just like DDR3. Currently 3200 is around the best value. It doesn't cost much more than slower RAM speeds, and is about where Skylake maxes out the potential of faster RAM. This is like with DDR3 platforms with Ivy Bridge and later where 2133 ended up being the ideal speed, with 2400 being an option if the price was much the same. It will be interesting to see what happens with AMD Zen and what speed that platform maxes out with.