When Will DDR4 Become Mainstream?

[iTonyy]

Recently been thinking of upgrading my ram to 16gb and probably keep using this set of ram for a new build in about a years time when I upgrade.

Just wondering if its worth it to invest into ddr3 with ddr4 will become the new standard soon

Does anyone know when ddr4 will become available?

[SteepGnomeKing]

Your processor wouldn't support ddr4 anyways I don't think so yes upgrade to 16gb ddr3 if you need it. Hard to say went it will become standard. It will be expensive when it starts to hit market though.

[Glenwing]

Not for another year or two.  Not like we're bottlenecked by DDR3 anyway though, unless you need to have the "newest thing" just for the sake of it.

[joelthezombie15]

I doubt ddr4 would come out by then, even if it did it probably wont be to much faster in the beginning

[Glenwing]

I'm thinking Broadwell or Skylake, or Haswell-E.

[fredtechcheck]

It will become mainstream when there is the demand for it but for now it is safe to say that in a year, majority of people who own a gaming computer will still have DDR3 memory inside.  Remember DDR4 was supposed to be released a long time ago but the demand for it was not enough to be able to profit.  Also Intel and AMD processors will need some development to be compatible with this new and fast memory.  Also when something like this happens, be ready to drop a butt ton of cash for DDR4 to be up to standards of memory size, you say you want 16GB.  Just think about SSD's, they are being lowered but think about how much it was when launched!  Do be like the people getting ready for the apocalypse and get some DDR3 memory, it will still be good even if DDR4 becomes mainstream in about oh say 2-3 years maybe... 

[fishymamba]

I think Haswell E will be the first CPUs from Intel to support DDR4, but I don't think anyone can tell right now.

[Nit3Rid3R]

Probably in a few years. 

[XiaoPigs]

Yea it'll probably be in a couple years like everyone says and it'll be the same as how DDR3 came about. Slowly be surely.

[ARod]

As soon as the software on the market will be capable of taking advantage of higher speeds will you start to hear the rumblings.  At that point you'll start seeing mobo manufacturers and chip manufacturers building it into their next releases.  At least 2 years.

 

One of the more relevant things going on right now is the development of RAM designed specifically for RAM Disk purposes that will permanently hold data.  Versus the way it is now where it's just temporary and it has to load into the RAM on start up and save the image back to SSD/HDD at shutdown.

[Opsilon]

Haswell-E should be the first generation of CPU-s supporting DDR4, and as people stated, it's not like DDR3 is a bottleneck, so 3 years+ before it even becomes viable to go DDR4, just remember that after the DDR3 launch people still used DDR2 because the speed boost was not worth it at first, when x58 chipset came out people stated to go with DDR3, there is no rush for it, so just go with 16 gigs of DDR3

[Art Vandelay]

If you're worried about RAM speed, get 2800MHz or 2666MHz RAM. DDR4 is probably going to be expensive at first, and not going to come out for quite a while. The actual performance gains from 2400+MHz memory is pretty meagre.