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ILKA Mar 5, 2017 @ 11:39am
Is there much of a difference between DDR3 and DDR4 performance?
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Mossy Snake Mar 5, 2017 @ 11:42am 
DDR4 is faster and uses less voltage.

It's also required on Skylake, Kabylake, and Ryzen.
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Omega Mar 5, 2017 @ 11:43am 
DDR4 is much faster that DDR3 that is about it. You will not notice any difference between them unless you have some software that relies heavely on RAM. I will NOT boost you FPS or anything.
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rotNdude Mar 5, 2017 @ 12:01pm 
What motherboard are you contemplating that uses both?
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✪Drinkable Mar 5, 2017 @ 5:28pm 
ya
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ericcui1 Mar 5, 2017 @ 6:01pm 
DDR4 offers higher frequency. But at the same frequency, for example, DDR4 2133 and DDR3 2133, older DDR3 turns out to be slightly faster.
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Lord Flashheart Mar 5, 2017 @ 6:20pm 
If you are talking about gaming, there are a few but not many games that benefit a lot from much faster memory. That may change as new games are released.
I have DDR3 1600 MHz with an i7-3770k @ 4.4 Ghz. It is an old setup but see no need to upgrade.

Generally its GPU, CPU then memory that are the order of proirities when it comes to gaming performance.
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