> If you can get value from buying now and using now, then it's not worth waiting. If you can't, then you didn't have to buy in the first place. It sound like

> If you can get value from buying now and using now, then it's not worth waiting. If you can't, then you didn't have to buy in the first place. It sound like you're in the second category, then. If you really belong there, that's fine. But honestly, I got a DDR3 machine towards the end of DDR3's lifecycle, and I have no regrets. I used the CPU/Mobo/RAM for more than 5 years, and by the time I upgraded, DDR4 got fast and cheap enough where I felt I got my money's worth from both my initial purchase and my upgrade.