Don’t Expect DDR5 to Go Anywhere Anytime Soon, as DDR6 Isn’t Planned to Arrive for Commercial Applications Until 2028

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A new report has indicated that each of the three big memory chip manufacturers has begun ramping up its development of DDR6. According to The Elec (via TechPowerUp), Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are all working with JDEC on the next standard, which could see speeds as high as 17,600 MT/s or more. However, the […]

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We will be in the 2030s before DIY gets access, and begins to adopt it in any real numbers.
 
Head on over to Anandtech FS/FT forums. Some kits on sale there. May make sense for you.
Shipping overseas? Unlikely. I have no inclination to upgrade anything at the current prices. I'll probably use my current DDR4 board until it stops working, and even then I'd weigh my options whether is it worth to get new stuff with DDR5, or simply buy another DDR4 MB.
 
I count myself lucky and bit the bullet in upgrading one of my setups to DDR5/AM5 last spring through some careful shopping which had enough discounts involved to basically be MSRP or lower for nearly all parts. I still ended up dropping a lot of dough for everything but it was before things went bonkers again. My remaining 5800X3D setup is looking like it'll be here to stay, but that's not really a bad thing since it still holds up well. More than likely I'll just end up replacing its AIO in the next year or so.

The biggest difference between the two that I've noticed is that the 9800X3D uses less TDP and is more easily cooled due to its flipped cache design and a better AIO on it, and is just a little faster in terms of FPS or load times but not enough for me to justify doing another AM5 build under current market conditions.

On the flipside my build constraints are more related to wanting to stick with the two Lian Li mATX cases I'm using for them but if push comes to shove I do have another mostly ready AM5 build, sans processor, and a preferred PSU with slightly slower memory than the current 9800X3D build, sitting and waiting in a full-sized case. This was the catalyst for my first AM5 updgrade as a prebuilt with a 5090 that was nearly MSRP for all parts involved, and now is waiting as a backup plan depending on when AMD releases its 12-core Zen6 CPUs and when I might be able to afford one. However, I'm feeling more confident with every day that this will be one of, if not very, last builds I do before I retire with the way all of the PC and gaming industry is going. A fixed income isn't going to support this hobby.
 
A fixed income isn't going to support this hobby.
For sale and trade forums are the meta on a tight budget. You will always have fairly modern parts on the cheap to build and upgrade with. Selling your old parts defrays a little of the cost as well. Message boards like this are populated mostly by older financially established white collar professionals. Many are whales. They let quality kit go for cheap as they move on to the latest and greatest. Can usually haggle a better price than they list too.

My joking non serious response is you are doing it wrong. You just need to grow the site enough to get real ad money and corpo swag. Enough for you yourself to get a slice of that pie. How do you do that you may ask? Shill, shamelessly shill. :p Digital Founder's Edition, TechPowerUP, Tom's Hardware, all shameless shills. Business Daddy will take care of you. Sycophants will flock to your site to get the warm fuzzies as you reinforce their confirmation biases. Your reality distortion field will be large enough that they can snuggle up in yours and not have to worry about it penetrating theirs.💲💲💲
 
I count myself lucky and bit the bullet in upgrading one of my setups to DDR5/AM5 last spring through some careful shopping which had enough discounts involved to basically be MSRP or lower for nearly all parts. I still ended up dropping a lot of dough for everything but it was before things went bonkers again. My remaining 5800X3D setup is looking like it'll be here to stay, but that's not really a bad thing since it still holds up well. More than likely I'll just end up replacing its AIO in the next year or so.
Even before the current situation I found DDR5 overpriced, there was no way I'd pay $300 to sidegrade from 64GB DDR4 to DDR5. Now it costs $1000. And then we are not even counting the cost of a new MB and CPU. All for an incremental upgrade. Even when I went from the 3700X to the 5800X3D when the only thing I had to pay for the CPU. It was barely justifiable. Slightly more stable FPS in some games, that's it.

Upgrades used to be transformational, now even if I'd drop $6000 and get the best of the best it wouldn't be. I'd still have to rely on DLSS. The local AI would run in 8 minutes instead of 10? That's not transformational. In the early 90s upgrading meant going from no textures to fully textured objects, that was transformational. In the late 90s upgrading meant going from software rendering to HW accelerated rendering, that was transformational. In the early 2000s upgrading meant going from 640x480 to 1024x768. The last time doing a new build felt transformational was when finally 4K native became a possibility in 2014. Now we are seemingly going backwards, we don't have 4K now without upscaling even in games with no RT.

So why upgrade at all? I think this killed the hobby more than the price. Because I'm crazy enough to pay more for my computer than my car, if it would feel the same as going from software renderer to Glide.
On the flipside my build constraints are more related to wanting to stick with the two Lian Li mATX cases I'm using for them.
That's another thing, I like my current case, but it is maxed out in terms of video card length. I was just barely able to shoehorn in the smallest 4080 available on the market, and I doubt even a 5080 would fit which I'd never buy anyway as when we remove nVidia's bs numbers with framegen and dlss it is more sidegrade than upgrade.
 
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