DDR4 Price Spotted

[SeekaX]

what the heck, you don't get a smiley sun for your diary every time you post original news.
you both copied the news from crucial anyways, so who cares.

 

[Wraith]

what the heck, you don't get a smiley sun for your diary every time you post original news.
you both copied the news from crucial anyways, so who cares.

Owww no golden star sticker then.

It's water off a ducks back to me.

 

[glent]

Owww no golden star sticker then.

It's water off a ducks back to me.

:lol:

 

[Wraith]

That my friend.... is pure excellence! :lol:

 

[Vicey]

I usually jump on the high end sockets like 1366 and 2011 but I'm going to skip Haswell-E's LGA 2011 v2 and wait for DDR4 prices to go down. Idealy I'd need 32GB of memory and I'm not paying £640 odd quid for it when the CPU will likely be £440 and a nice board £300.

When DDR4 hits the mainstream socket (Skylake) and AMD add it to their lineup it will fall in price and that's when I'll buy in to it.

 

[Squidlorock]

DDR3 here i come! Sod paying those prices

 

[vorticalbox]

DDR3 here i come! Sod paying those prices

Same hopeing ddr3 prices drop before they get removed and the price rockets,

When i first built my rig i paid £35 for 8 GB @ 1600 i didnt get 16 as i meant there isnt any need now i wish i had just gone for it.

 

[Tiuqu]

(...)Specs: DDR4 PC4-17000 • CL=15 • Single Ranked • x4 based • Registered • ECC • DDR4-2133 • 1.2V(...)

afaik "ECC" (Error-correcting code memory) is server standard ddr type, so this seems to not qualify for desktop solution, unless ddr4 is going desktop ECC?

tl;dr wrong memory type = wrong price.

 

[Kaapstad]

They need to get the speed and specs up a bit before Haswell E launches to make DDR4 worthwhile.

 

[Wraith]

afaik "ECC" (Error-correcting code memory) is server standard ddr type, so this seems to not qualify for desktop solution, unless ddr4 is going desktop ECC?

tl;dr wrong memory type = wrong price.

ECC is not specifically for servers it can be used in either desktop or servers although it is favoured in server environments, DRAM these days is pretty stable so error checking is not really required.

That said you'll only lose about 2-3% performance by using ECC memory in a desktop.

 

[Fiberton]

it's always like that. DDR4 isn't really relevant till skylake anyways, so i don't bother much. does kaveri support DDR4 already?

@SeekaX Yes kaveri`s memory controller already support`s DDR4. It is in the Kaveri white paper. Will be interesting to see what Kaveri can do with much more bandwith. A far more interesting thing which could really heat things up is that Jim keller the creator of the Athlon 64 and cores for Apple has been working for AMD again as Chief CPU Architect. It takes awhile to make new cores will be interesting. It would be interesting if he has been working on that for the last year. Although it takes a lot longer it would be nice for AMD to have some serious cores.