Building a new pc but ram prices are through the roof should I get 16GB ddr3 at a high...

[Callum Minshull]

Building a new pc but ram prices are through the roof should I get 16GB ddr3 at a high MHz or should I opt for 8GB ddr4?

 

[Braedan McNicol]

Your motherboard will either support DDR 4 or 3. Not both.

 

[Ragnar C Ragnar]

DDR 4 is the most recent memory.

 

[Aaron Moore]

I would just buy a pre built if I were you, it's cheaper than building yourself at this moment in time.

 

[Ville-Waltteri Herrala]

You can only go with DDR3 or DDR4. You are bound to one or the other depending on your pick of CPU.

 

[Nejc Devetak]

Ram prices are high yeah but check GPU prices XDDD

 

[Vandal Eyes]

DDR 3 may be older but technically it's still better cuz that what the tech level is catered around ATM. You can get DDR 4 but you'd notice the the hole in your wallet way before noticing much of a performance difference. Plus they got DDR 6 since like 2012. Does that mean ppl hurrying to buy a $3k RAM card hell no! Hope this helps. If not YouTube ddr3 Vs 4 to help decide

 

[John Brennan Jr.]

I'll sell you 8gb (2x4) of ddr3 corsair vengeance for $50

 

[Shane Lethbridge]

I'd go DDR4. I MADE A DDR3 system and although it wasn't hard to make, it was still challenging to find decent components that all match at decent prices. Plus DDR4 has a lot more expansion off of it so you have more variety.

 

[Gergel Razon]

Depends on your motherboard. If your board doesnt support the type, no use in buying it

 

[Atanas Stoilov]

Usually people do their builds based on CPU. Changing your build to save 20 bucks for ram is something else

 

[Michael Schwarz]

I have an i7-4970, 32Gb of DDR3 quad channel, and a gtx1070 and the 1070 is my bottleneck. Don't sweat the ram, sort out your CPU and GPU first

 

[David Quinn]

16gb of ddr4 ram is only going to go up