Will Skylake be able to use 1333 DDR3 RAM?

[john5220]

What do you guys think?

DDR 3 1333mhz sells the cheapest can be had for some pretty good deal.

Will skylake support this?

 

[lyssword]

I think so, they have compatibility with ddr3, but later mobo makers will switch to ddr4. However I also heard some rumors that skylake will actually use laptop type ddr3.. (or is it only for mobile skylake? ). I guess if you 're ok with missing out a few % on performance compared to ddr4 that will b coming later, I'd say go for it

 

[john5220]

a 5% decrease in performance I am ok with. Most games in future is gonna use mostly high VRAM anyways. I think CPU and GPU has the biggest impact in games.

I won't mind upgrading to skylake but I am not willing to buy new RAM thats out of the question really.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Seems Skylake-S will only support DDR4 and DDR3L. So it needs to be 1.35V DDR3 to even have a chance.

 

[lyssword]

1.35v = laptop memory.. wtf, intel

 

[tential]

1.35v = laptop memory.. wtf, intel

DDR 4 is 1.35v maximum as well.
Common theme?

 

[Yuriman]

My current DDR3 is 1.25v.

 

[2is]

1.35v = laptop memory.. wtf, intel

People have been running 1.35v DDR3 in desktops for quite sometime.

 

[tential]

People have been running 1.35v DDR3 in desktops for quite sometime.

He's clearly looking at dirt cheap ram though.
There are only 18 kits available at 1.35v for desktop on newegg at 8GB (2x4GB). In contrast, 159 kits are available at 1.5v. Not really something that is that wide spread.

Considering Skylake isn't even available, threads like this asking what type of ram they should get for a platform that isn't out is kind of useless when the whole market changes.

Hypothetical threads of what to get for something at an unknown future date are by far the most annoying threads.

 

[lyssword]

read the slide again. 204pin

 

[ShintaiDK]

The 260/204 pin is for laptops/NUCs. Its just a mixed slide.

1.2V only for DDR4. 1.35V only for DDR3.