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hey Ron this is steve from gamers nexus net and today we are talking about ddr4 specifically the anticipated switchover date from ddr3 to ddr4 in other words the period of expected mass market adoption of the new memory platform this is the discussion that was originally had during the ddr2 ddr3 switchover days that would have been from the period of 2007-2010 that would be the launch area until the period at which ddr3 was massively consumed by even gamers who are generally among the last adopters when considering the weight and demands of the enterprise and server market so gamers as many of us as there are out there we are not a huge part of the market when it comes to new technology it's always going to be the server companies that do things first especially when you look at companies like google and cisco and all these people who need very high-powered systems to sustain their daily operations and they will make a switch to new hardware even for things like energy conservation even if the bandwidth remains the same because it can cut costs massively by integrating this hardware across all of their many many servers and that brings us to a few of the key features for ddr4 ddr4 has energy consumption of about thirty five percent lower than ddr3l and about ten percent lower than ddr3 it's also got almost one hundred percent more bandwidth than ddr3 and on the server side there's significantly better error detection better ECC which maintains accuracy for a longer period of time and it's not really something that will see used in gaming applications but it is an important factor in ddr4 this does mean that the benefits for ddr4 are limited for gaming because currently we're barely even using ddr3 beyond 1600 megahertz and games if you put a 2400 megahertz stick n you put a 1600 megahertz stick in you're not going to see huge gains in gaming performance you will see gains in production environments like rendering and streaming and things like that and live previews of adobe after effects for example but not really in gaming maybe an F maybe a frame per second at best and that is within margin of error but some games do make use of faster memory like f1 2012 but we won't get into that here the main reason ddr4 is immediately slowed to the market is because there's only one platform right now for consumers it's just x99 that's it and that is very expensive so we're sort of waiting on intel and AMD to introduce more platforms that are more reasonably priced for the rest of us that support ddr4 and those are coming soon actually they are coming next year 2015 and into 2016 haswell-e x will support ddr4 broad well II will sport for Broadwell EP and even skylake will support either ddr3 or ddr4 depending on the manufacturer and the type of skylake platform being built so the platforms are coming they are on the way and new platforms really aren't the only reason that ddr4 has slow uptake it also comes to things like the semiconductor manufacturers the suppliers there kingston corsair g.skill all these companies they go to just three semiconductor producers in the industry they have three people they can go to and order ram modules for their sticks of ram that you buy so that means that there's going to be potentially a threat of an oligopoly where you have controlled prices but that's that's always that is not new for the memory industry put it that way and we are waiting for these companies to switch over there fab process to 25 nanometer wafer fabrication and that can take a while because they're currently producing memory for ddr3 ddr4 the producing memory for phones for tablets for laptops which now take different types of memory than desktops they have lower voltage memory making it for desktops of course and this is not these factors didn't necessarily exist from ddr2 23 because a lot of these devices weren't really being consumed on such a huge scale as they are today especially phones which are eating into a lot of the wafer put and and fabrication of these memory dies these memory modules so that is definitely delaying the uptake on ddr4 now to answer the question of the video when will ddr3 switch over to ddr4 on mass for even those of us just gaming it is looking like that will happen in 2016 that can change obviously depending on how the three suppliers end up doing with their their supply and demand and if they have shortages or if they try to control things a bit more than they should and get greedy but it's looking like 2016 and we've spoken to a few memory manufacturers about this and they all seem to agree that sometime in the twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen range there will be a switchover on mass for consumers including and especially gamers so that is it for this video if you like this type of content please subscribe it helps a lot and keeping the channel going we're doing really well lately and I appreciate all of your support please leave a comment below if you have any 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