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so memory for your computer might be something you don't give a whole lot of thought to even if you're an enthusiast as long as you have enough of a compatible type things will probably run the way you want them to but making sure that folks do have enough is one of the key goals of the next revision of PC memory ddr5 so named because five is one higher than four and the jtech folks didn't go to the same elementary school as Microsoft's Xbox team seriously though the next revision of DDR memory does bring the expected increases in speed and the decreases in power consumption but the big draw is just how much capacity manufacturer should be able to squeeze onto one chip ddr5 aims to have twice the density of ddr4 which is no mean feat because packing that much memory into such a small space makes it more difficult to keep things stable due to like weird interactions that can happen between atoms but it seems they found a way to do it meaning that an individual ddr5 chip could contain up to 32 gigabits of data but wait hold on a second I mean most of us with desktop computers have more memory slots than we actually need I mean it isn't exactly difficult to put 16 gigs of RAM on a standard board so why do we need another revision of DDR well although ddr5 will undoubtedly be relatively expensive when it hits the market over time it will make the per gigabyte cost of RAM cheaper and although RAM has historically been one of the more inexpensive components for PCs recent DRAM shortages have resulted in price increases that have hung around for quite some time so even if users find themselves needing just 8 or 16 gigs of memory once ddr5 becomes widespread they should be able to enjoy some savings and ddr 5s improved speed will also bring benefits in certain scenarios now ram was kind of overlooked for a long time by pc enthusiasts like me simply because it didn't give tangible performance gains in many applications particularly in games but there's been a renewed interest in having speedy system RAM as AMD's rise in CPUs are known for being more affected by memory speeds than their Intel counterparts with noticeable frame rate increases being reported in certain titles when you pair your CPU with faster Ram and a high performance discrete graphics card so what kind of performance can we expect then well ddr5 frequencies are expected to clear 6,000 megahertz which will be a huge improvement over the thirty-two hundred megahertz mac speed of the official ddr4 spec this could end up helping AMD users a lot and also any folks who are gaming on integrated graphics cards that leverage main system memory as V RAM so laptop users rejoice this increased bandwidth will also come in handy and server and cloud applications but when exactly will we reap these benefits well we could see ddr5 kits towards the end of 2019 believe it or not but the first ones that hit the market will likely be aimed at the enterprise consumer grade ddr5 probably won't be available until 2020 and even then we might still be in for a year or two transition phase before it becomes really widespread and more affordable so in the meantime don't feel like you can't splurge on that siak kit of RGB ddr4 that you had your eyes on since you can still enjoy it for a couple of years there are frankly plenty of much stupider things that you could have spent more money on for much shorter term gratification speaking of short-term gratification if long-term gratification is your play then use brilliant daily problems to train your brain each problem provides you with the context and framework that you need to tackle it so you'll learn the concepts by applying them and if you like the daily problem then there's more like it in the quiz on the left so that you can explore the concept in great detail and develop your framework if you're confused and you need more guidance you can join the community in discussing these problems allowing you to go from curiosity to mastery just one day at a time so what are you waiting for go to brilliant org slash tech quickie and finish your day a little smarter than you already were smarter or because you watched tech quickie as well the first 200 of you to do so will get 20% off your annual subscription to view all the problems in the archives we've got that linked below that's pretty smart too so thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our other videos don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any future tech quickies and leave a comment below if you have a suggestion for a future video seriously like we have no idea what to make videos about tech who ever heard of it