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Sirsheples
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So I have a i5 6600k with 16GB of DDR3 and a GTX 1080. I'm pretty sure i'm one of the only people who has DDR3 with a skylake CPU anymore. I was wondering if that could be affecting performance and if it's worth going up to DDR4, or it's worth upgrading my CPU/MoBo/RAM all together? 

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Depending on the speed of your DDR3 I wouldn't think it would be affecting performance too significantly, although there will be some performance loss. I would say stick with it until you are looking to upgrade to a new CPU then just grab everything that goes along with that.

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been a while since I heard of that, pretty sure it was determined the performance difference at the time was minimal, speed and timings have improved a little since then, but it's not a cost effective plan

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10 minutes ago, Sirsheples said:

I was wondering if that could be affecting performance and if it's worth going up to DDR4, or it's worth upgrading my CPU/MoBo/RAM all together? 

If there is a good deal on a good set of DDR4 now (Samsung B-die for example), I'd go for it. If not, I'd wait.
 

 

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12 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

been a while since I heard of that, pretty sure it was determined the performance difference at the time was minimal, speed and timings have improved a little since then, but it's not a cost effective plan

I was thinking that there wasn't much difference, it's only 1600mhz or something like that, so I was thinking of going DDR4 at a much faster speed.

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10 minutes ago, chckovsky said:

If there is a good deal on a good set of DDR4 now (Samsung B-die for example), I'd go for it. If not, I'd wait.
 

 

I've found some Corsair Vengeance LPX for £100 for a 16GB kit

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14 minutes ago, chckovsky said:

If there is a good deal on a good set of DDR4 now (Samsung B-die for example), I'd go for it. If not, I'd wait.

 

b die? that's still pretty expensive. hynix d/e would easily do

 

2 minutes ago, Sirsheples said:

I've found some Corsair Vengeance LPX for £100 for a 16GB kit

3000 mhz cl16?

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I found LPX 3000 with a CL of 15 for my Ryzen build for about $100.

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17 minutes ago, Sirsheples said:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CMK16GX4M2B3000C15-Vengeance-Performance-Desktop/dp/B0134EW7G8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1550924042&sr=8-1&keywords=16gb+ddr4+3000mhz This one.

ah, cl15... would be a good choice, tho i would manually tune it to around 3200-3400 mhz cl16

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