maniacalpha1-1
Diamond Member
I was just wondering about a new set of memory standards...I looked up DDR4 and I did see that it is slated for release in 2012 with of course an increased memory bandwidth. The question I have though, and really just for gaming, but if there are other home uses that might apply I wonder about them as well, the question is whether there are any gaming uses that are currently actually stretching DDR3's capacity and come close to making it a bottleneck. Let's just use DDR3 1333, as compared to say, whatever the lowest DDR4 might be, since anything over 1333 is considered overclocking.
What actually made me think of this was that I was telling a friend about how he should build his own computer rather than buy prebuilt trash, and that even though it will cost more up front, 2 years from now he'll be able to reuse case, PSU, HDD, CD/DVD, and Windows(if buying full version), and that at least for his next upgrade he'd basically only need a new mobo, CPU, ram and GPU. And that...he might even be able to reuse RAM, unless they start building chipsets with a faster memory standard, which hasn't happened in a while. Well - a relative while, compared to say GPUs, which have had multiple generations release, obsolete and get replaced since DDR3 hit(which was 2007 according to my googling).
What actually made me think of this was that I was telling a friend about how he should build his own computer rather than buy prebuilt trash, and that even though it will cost more up front, 2 years from now he'll be able to reuse case, PSU, HDD, CD/DVD, and Windows(if buying full version), and that at least for his next upgrade he'd basically only need a new mobo, CPU, ram and GPU. And that...he might even be able to reuse RAM, unless they start building chipsets with a faster memory standard, which hasn't happened in a while. Well - a relative while, compared to say GPUs, which have had multiple generations release, obsolete and get replaced since DDR3 hit(which was 2007 according to my googling).
