Help with a gaming PC build (Skylake)

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Bofferbrauer said:

mtu9356 said:

Is DDR4 really going to make that big of an impact on performance in the relative future, say next few years?

Unless you want to use the integrated graphics core on the CPU, probably not at all

If you want your PC to be upgradable, you will have to take DDR4 nontheless, as all future Intel CPUs will use DDR4; AMD will make the transition to DDR4 with Zen (Q4 2016-Q1 2017), and starting then no more CPUs will be produced for PC for DDR3

Exactly this. You don't want to be stuck with DDR3 if 2-3 years down the line you decide want to upgrade. You'll end up paying a premium for inferior RAM modules because they don't manufacture them anymore.