DDR5 RAM is coming in 2021
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:15 am
Is anyone fired up about this? I find it interesting.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/ddr5-ram-release-2021
https://www.pcgamesn.com/ddr5-ram-release-2021
No. It's been some time since I was a teenager.
Haha, everytime AMD doubles their core count I hear the champagne corks popping here.mvanthoor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:17 pmNo. It's been some time since I was a teenager.
For me a computer is a tool to get stuff done (or play games). At some point, I buy the fastest computer parts I can afford (or wish to spend money on), build the machine, and then I use it for 5-8 years. I replace it when it either can't keep up anymore, or if I wish to do things it can't. Then I'll take a look in the market to see what's around, and I do the same thing: build the fastest computer I can afford or wish to spend money on.
It's "just" getting a bit faster. The time where there were technologies you had to have, are over for almost 10 years already. If you don't play games, there's not much difference between a computer from 2010 or 2020, except for the fact that the latter is faster; but even the 2010 computer can still do office tasks and play the games up to 2012 (or 2014 if you limit your expectations).
The only people I know that still get excited about new computer hardware are people who spend their entire free time gaming, and can't live with the newest game running slower than 160 FPS at 4K resolution.
Upgrading from my current 4-core i7-6700K to something that has 16 cores (or more) is basically the only thing I'm looking at.
10 year old GPUs can still play games fine. Better than current APUs and intel iGPUs still.mvanthoor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:17 pmNo. It's been some time since I was a teenager.
For me a computer is a tool to get stuff done (or play games). At some point, I buy the fastest computer parts I can afford (or wish to spend money on), build the machine, and then I use it for 5-8 years. I replace it when it either can't keep up anymore, or if I wish to do things it can't. Then I'll take a look in the market to see what's around, and I do the same thing: build the fastest computer I can afford or wish to spend money on.
It's "just" getting a bit faster. The time where there were technologies you had to have, are over for almost 10 years already. If you don't play games, there's not much difference between a computer from 2010 or 2020, except for the fact that the latter is faster; but even the 2010 computer can still do office tasks and play the games up to 2012 (or 2014 if you limit your expectations).
The only people I know that still get excited about new computer hardware are people who spend their entire free time gaming, and can't live with the newest game running slower than 160 FPS at 4K resolution.
If you're just playing chess on it that's ok, for anyone that's into gaming that's just old outdated crap.Raphexon wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 2:41 pm10 year old GPUs can still play games fine. Better than current APUs and intel iGPUs still.mvanthoor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:17 pmNo. It's been some time since I was a teenager.
For me a computer is a tool to get stuff done (or play games). At some point, I buy the fastest computer parts I can afford (or wish to spend money on), build the machine, and then I use it for 5-8 years. I replace it when it either can't keep up anymore, or if I wish to do things it can't. Then I'll take a look in the market to see what's around, and I do the same thing: build the fastest computer I can afford or wish to spend money on.
It's "just" getting a bit faster. The time where there were technologies you had to have, are over for almost 10 years already. If you don't play games, there's not much difference between a computer from 2010 or 2020, except for the fact that the latter is faster; but even the 2010 computer can still do office tasks and play the games up to 2012 (or 2014 if you limit your expectations).
The only people I know that still get excited about new computer hardware are people who spend their entire free time gaming, and can't live with the newest game running slower than 160 FPS at 4K resolution.
Just won't be 1080p high settings anymore.
Same goes for CPU if you have a i7-980X.
So well said...it's sad that certain people often fail to realize this. One could say though that those endlessly chasing the unicorns might aid in the $$ R&D of the companies producing these new toys...or not. Maybe if companies instead came to realize that people will buy those terribly small incremental improvements...they would swing for the triple every time instead of just to get to first base.mvanthoor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 12:17 pmIt's "just" getting a bit faster. The time where there were technologies you had to have, are over for almost 10 years already.
The only people I know that still get excited about new computer hardware are people who spend their entire free time gaming, and can't live with the newest game running slower than 160 FPS at 4K resolution.
I crack my knuckles and jump for joy when a new AMD super server comes out. My 3970x saves me a boatload of money when I am analyzing,