DDR5 memory, according to MSI, will cost 50 to 60 percent more than DDR4 memory.

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Nothing wrong with early adoption, unless it's Apple or Willamette and RDRAM.
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Why? If you got ddr4 2666/2933 with first cpu that supports it like 5820k you would have decent system even today. Its not a rule that early adoption is a bad thing except the price ofc.
I didn't say being an early adopter is bad. My point is it wasn't always that simple. Even with Skylake, people had early-adopter issues (I don't recall what specifically, since I didn't care about getting a Skylake myself). When Ryzen first came out, it took several AGESA updates until XMP profiles worked properly across all mobo manufacturers. With previous versions of DDR, you just simply plug it in and everything "just worked" as spec'd without having to do any configuration, BIOS updates, or troubleshooting. DDR4 was only so simple if you went for 2400MHz, which even when it first came out was rather slow. Seems to me DDR4 must have had something more technologically advanced if so many people had issues running their modules at advertised speeds. DDR5 is supposed to more widely implement ECC, which on paper will help with stability and accuracy but suggests there is a lot more added complexity. That added complexity to me means there could still be some growing pains. More often than not, being an early adopter of a significantly upgraded technology means you're inevitably going to find some issues. Best-case scenario, the issue is just underwhelming performance. For some people, that's no big deal, but more often than not I've been burned by being an early adopter and I'm getting pretty tired of it. You could probably count on 1 hand the amount of new technologies (note, I mean actually new, not a natural evolution or revision) released within the past decade that were flawless from day 1. I suspect DDR5 won't be quite as bad as DDR4 though.
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Going to say that there will be little point to using ddr5 for a little while yet. with the extemely loose latencies advertised thus far , I suspect that most newer ddr4 ics will be able to hit 4800mt/s+ reliably with sane voltages. Doubt there will be much point to it for anything other than notebooks which can benefit from the lower power consumption and higher bandwidth at the present time and maybe if you need extreme memory densities (though ddr4 already goes up to 256gb per stick )

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