Anyone on more recent stuff waiting for faster (not first year) DDR5 before upgrading?

[Perfect_Chaos]

Currently still using a 3700x, may upgrade to a 5000 series chip or may not. Undecided yet. But i have the option which is good.

I was wondering if anyone is holding on for the first round of DDR5, or keeping with what they have and wait for faster and cheaper DDR5 say a year later.

Alderlake looks interesting but i can't help but feel Ocean Cove could be a lot better at least from the rumours I've seen so far. On the AMD side it looks like Zen 5 will compete with Ocean Cove by then. And if waiting for better DDR5 you get the bonus of most likely getting it cheaper and with newer better CPUs.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Looking forward to ddr5 - bit agree with post above unless you have radical new cpu performance having fast ram is not gonna make much difference.

That would be the only way i would go straight in on a new platform with DDR5, and i can't see the first CPUs being that much better to want it. At least with rumours i would currently be betting on Ocean Cove on the Intel side. So maybe 2022/2023 for me anyway.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

That is going to be about a 6+ year wait then :/ if you waiting with what is in your sig at moment then you will ne struggling way before that I would think.

These days we are starting to see decent uplifts that benefit even if you upgrade in just 1 or 2 generations now.

Wonder if Intel will start allowing more generations of CPUs to be used on their boards. Currently a lot more convenient with AMD since you only have to swap the chip.