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Tatsujin:
Are you able to hold off for another 4 months (or less)? If so, you can unleash a more powerful rig for the same amount you want to spend. If you save up more money (about 500 USD) you can build one hell of a rig, period. The price quotes on everything you see now will eventually drop when the new computer parts come out. Intel's Haswell and nVidia's GTX 760-780 and (possibly, correct me if I'm wrong) DDR4 are all on the way in few months. Be patient ... like me, lol.

kitamesume:
ddr4 wouldn't be coming out anytime soon, the rumors had them only being available for the servers till 2014.

Tatsujin:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 29, 2012, 06:21:31 AM ---ddr4 wouldn't be coming out anytime soon, the rumors had them only being available for the servers till 2014.

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Thanks, I was wondering if something was off and felt like the information I was reading on wasn't accurate enough to justify this. You mention that they're only for servers for 2014, how about personal desktops?

kitamesume:
i mean't they do start manufacturing ddr4 by 2013 but they're only available for servers until 2014, by 2014 there should be desktop counterparts although shares would still be at the low side, by 2015 we should see a large majority of drams being ddr4.

not to mention theres no announcements of motherboards supporting ddr4 by 2013, and this is the only nearest news there is.
http://www.techspot.com/news/50302-jedec-finalizes-ddr4-spec-coming-to-a-pc-near-you-in-2015.html

--- Quote ---In April, it was reported that Intel expected to begin supporting DDR4 in high-end four-socket Haswell-EX servers by early 2014. Meanwhile, its consumer platforms may not support the spec until 2015, as 2013's 22nm Haswell and 2014's 14nm Broadwell architectures will both use DDR3.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR4_SDRAM

--- Quote ---DDR4 is expected to represent 5% of the DRAM market in 2013, and to reach mass market adoption and 50% market penetration around 2015; the latter is comparable with the approximately 5 years taken for DDR3 to achieve mass market transition over DDR2. In part, this is because changes required to other components would impact all other parts of computer systems, which would need to be updated to work with DDR4.
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news:
http://www.techspot.com/news/50302-jedec-finalizes-ddr4-spec-coming-to-a-pc-near-you-in-2015.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/jedec_ddr4_spec/

Southrop:
SSDs are no way overkill any more. The performance upgrade from having an SSD as my primary drive was so huge that I now get impatient at my laptop which doesn't have an SSD lol.

By the way, I think this is worth reading, Sherlock. Ars do some really detailed system guides. Not tailored to everyone, but I think their guides work as a good starting point. I try to base my builds of the hotrod and tune up or down depending on price, but they hadn't done a new guide for like a year when I was building. In the end, my current build is pretty much on the same level as their hotrod except a bit overkill in some locations (e.g. 750W power supply and like 5 scythe gentle typhoon fans lol) http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/ars-technica-system-guide-december-2012/

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