I'm holding out for DDR6 :P lol (great price heat added)

What?! That's not how it works.

No good to those with DDR4 chipsets.

that would help, my ambient temperatures are quite high right now.

£49.99 now

Almost half the price of the 16GB I bought for my VR machine in November. I was planning on not spending any more money on my credit card until I get my 1080 in August...but at this price it would be rude not to lol

Paid more than this for 8gb of DDR3 just over a year ago. Time to double my memory!

17:00, gives you great shadows.

No but I found this interesting anyway:

http://www.techspot.com/article/1171-ddr4-4000-mhz-performance/

Of course, i'm not an amateur. Though could use some help to get the timings right, running at an 11:00 right now but thinking a 13:30 might reduce the latency. Thoughts?

Pretty sure my PC only supports DDR3 and I already have 12 GB, but I'm tempted to get this anyway for my next one.
Isn't this just about the cheapest price 16 GB has ever been at?

I hope you crossed the G out with a marker pen, it'll be pretty unstable if you didn't.

I took the GDDR5 off my graphics card and put it in my RAM slot so i could have DDR5 now, its super fast.

Samsung are saying 2020 is roughly when ddr5 is coming for consumers. I don't think 4 years is 'on the corner' mate

Then I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Yes 6th Gen Intel...

hot deal. when is the ddr1 remaster coming out? <3

6th gen Intel CPU?

good find

Has anyone installed this into a XPS 8900 Desktop? Is the compatibility ok? Thanks...

​DDR7 sucker! I'm waiting for DDR1000, plugs straight into the brain :confused:

​Yes the 2030 corner :smirk:

He's fixed it, it needed GPU processing (acceleration) enabling.

I got 16GB Corsair Performance RAM 2666, delivered for 50 quid about 5 months ago off eBay, the clock difference will improve your games for sure (not all but some)

If you can spare an extra 10-15 quid you wont be disappointed. This is a great deal for your average DDR4 RAM tho

Where can I pre-order DDR8, please? I'm prepared to wait, of course.... I just want the best.

By the way, I've got pre-orders in for Human Centipede 11 to 13, if anybody's interested.

Fantastic price. Might have been tempted if it were not for having purchased 2x 4GB modules already (which I think is enough for the moment as I don't do gaming). Essentially the same as this, but 2400 MHz

Fantastic bargain, HOT :smiley:

An unlocked processor and a z170 board... yeah get better ram than this you deserve it. :smiley:

DDR4 has lower voltages and power requirements which leads to lower TCO (total cost of ownership) for owners of big server farms. For the consumer DDR4 has two advantages. The first is similar to server requirements, DDR4's lower power usage means better battery life in laptops, tablets and phones. More premium DDR4 also clocks faster than the equivalent DDR3 which for overclockers and other "enthusiasts" means squeezing an extra percent or two. In most real world use cases however you won't notice.

This will run on cheaper motherboards no problem. Just bear in mind all the cheaper motherboards this will be the max speed ram that they support. For example the cheaper H110 motherboards support 2133mhz ram but if you put faster speed ram in it, it will be down clocked to 2133mhz. I just built a budget system with a Pentium G4500 and this ram (8gb though) and it flies to what I am used to. With an SSD the boot time is now 13 seconds.

Ignore me, I thought this was DDR3.

no chance. compared to hdd to ssd as a performance gain, ddr 3 to 4 wouldn't even register on the scale. It came about mostly as big server farms appreciated the lower power consumption and lower voltages meant potentially better reliability.

DDR 4 wasn't designed for the home user in mind. Getting us to upgrade is just squeezing a bit more juice out of the orange peel. Future memory formats will be closer to, or on the CPU itself which might make difference to a home user.

Note, that there isn't even a steam game that recommends 16GB of RAM yet (or I can't see one) not even the big 3 Virtual Reality systems recommend 16GB RAmM, but it doesn't stop gamers installing it.

I bet most upgrades are to get a better Geekbench score rather than seeing or feeling a real-world gain

Could you explain in layman's terms what the benefit of DDR4 is over DDR3 ? You say bottle neck but is it like swapping a HDD for SSD kind of improvement?

all the jokey comments about waiting for DDR5 and 6, this format has reached its optimum and the next gen of memory will likely be a completely new package or even packaged with CPUs. I stuck with DDR3 motherboard and money saved will go in the pot for when it makes a significant difference.

Thanks!

Hi! I'm just about to build a new system with i5 6600k and Z170 based mobo so I guess it does support ddr4.

Everything which fishmaster said.
Plus what monitoring have you done?
Download a decent hardware monitor (HWiNFO64 for example) and System Internal's Process Explorer. Learn how to use them. Throw the monitoring tools to one monitor (I assume with a near £2k budget you are using more than one monitor: best productivity tool you can get even if the 2nd+ monitors are only cheap TN panels), do whatever is lagging and stuttering. You also have to an idea which part of Vegas you are stressing. Is a disk task, a CPU task, something which is offloaded to the GPU?
Once you have observed that you should have an idea where your bottleneck is.
Yes,it's work but coming in and "saying I spend ££££ and it's still not fast enough" is not helpful.

Why on earth didn't you use an M.2 NVMe SSD? Was it the expense and available storage size? Even if you did I don't think it's the SSD that's at fault.

I would try making a RAM disk and loading your projects directly to and from the RAM disk and see if that makes any difference. I don't suggest it as a permanent solution, just for testing to see if you have some I/O issue somewhere on the system.

Also do you have the PC setup UEFI boot with AHCI enabled in the BIOS? There's a quite a bit of basic stuff you need to check too.

Where is the lag happening in Sony Vegas 12? Is it in the preview or through out the whole application? Specifying exactly where the lag happens would be helpful. Have you tried disabling GPU acceleration? There's a lot of reasons Sony Vegas 12 can lag.

Lastly I wonder why you're using a consumer GPU on a semi pro system? I guess you must want to game on it as well?

depends on the rest of your system, I got some of these:
http://www.ebuyer.com/737130-corsair-vengeance-lpx-16gb-ddr4-2-x-8gb-pc4-22400-3000mhz-c15-memory-cmk16gx4m2b3000c15
As I didn't want to compromise since I splashed out for an unlocked i7, I have my RAM running below max at 2800mhz (these were cheaper than the same ones at 2800mhz anyway).
the RAM in this post is not exactly high end speeds, It would perform ok in a mid range gaming pc, great for pairing up with a locked processor like a i5 6600 or 6500, maybe an i3 and a non z170 board. I really must say price to performance you cant knock it but if price isn't an issue get something better :smiley:

Just to clarify... I'm voting hot purely on price.

Does your motherboard support DDR4?

Actually nah, ddr9 for 4.99 + free shipping and quidco

Waiting for dd7

Seems like some games benefit with higher clocked memory. Depends how much more expensive it is.

Hi all! Is this any good ram for gaming or should I get ddr4 with 2666Mzh or above?!?

That makes zero sense.

I'd actually guess the next version of ram will be something pretty different.

We have 3dxpoint (not a ram substitute I know) coming and what happened to that hybrid memory cube thingy?

I'm holding out for DDR6 :P lol (great price heat added)

DDR4 has only been introduced into mainstream use about 12 months lol expect it to be around for most platforms at least another 5 years!

Utter nonsense! The drop in DDR4 RAM pricing has nothing to do with DDR5 because DDR5 doesn't exist and don't confuse it with GDDR5 as that's not the same thing.

DDR5 doesn't exist and therefore can not have any bearing on DDR4 pricing!

Please provide a link to when DDR5 will be available please.

Fantastic value.
Heat added.

DDR4 is only just becoming the norm. It's going down in price due to them making more of it.

LOL.

great!! cheers!!

What?! That's not how it works.

I did not say it does, soon or later will, hence the reductions of the existing ram

Doesn't exist.

Yeah ddr4 is plenty for now ta! great price, bit slow though

No good to those with DDR4 chipsets.

ddr5 on the corner

That's crazy cheap!

Super hot!