I think that DDR4 should be skipped altogether.

Focus DDR4 resources on speeding up DDR5 development. Graphics DDR4 had a short life, and didn't provide significant improvement over DDR3. Same is bound to happen in computer RAM world. Don't make the same mistake, skip a generation, and move from DDR3 to DDR5.


sacrifice the ram, will we still come to the end of timings?

I prefer to see ram with less latency rather than more brute speed. Aside from the synthetic benchmarksDDR 400 doesn't feel "slow".

I was hoping no one would mention that "end of the world" thingy ... I had such high hopes for a totally kick-ass Nehalem rig by that time ...

Yeah, so I look for DDR4 to have a *very* short life, and DDR5 to not make it to the starting block at all.

Isn't it wonderful knowing that soon all will come to an end?

some say it's not the end of the world but a change of collective consciousness through out the world. Which is going to considered the end the "world" as we know it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YomEEicpxcc

looks likes that's going to be happening with ddr3/4 :-D