[SOLVED] Corsair LPX C-Die. Keep or return?

[tangelo]

I'm building a new i7-9700k rig and browsed thru lots of benchmarks and discussions looking for good ram.

I chose Corsair Vengeange LPX 16gig kit (CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 ) as it had a good bang-for-buck (thanks to black friday), doesn't obstruct my cpu cooler and had great reviews where everyone raved how good they overclock.

I just got my kit in the mail and saw it's a rev 4.32 kit. Did some googling and saw that it's a C-Die that overclocks "like crap" according to enthusiast forums. Apparently there is next to none headroom for OC with these and some people even have trouble running them at 3200 CL16, but those wore mostly Ryzen users. This is kinda tragicomic as the box still says "For high performance overclocking"...

It's not a "live or die" situation for me, but I would like to do some slight overclocking but the comments and experiences of others with these rev 4.32 kits are kinda troublesome.

I know Ryzen is/was more picky about memory and OC would give bigger gains on Ryzen than on Intel, but if these really are so terrible at OC, should I just return them and get something else? I haven't opened the box yet and I have untill January to return them for a refund.

Also I feel kinda misled by all the articles, reviews and benchmarks (although it isn't their fault that the manufacturer changed chips later on) saying how great these are for OC as it clearly isn't the case anymore :/

 

[kerberos_20]

3200MHz ram is still high overclock
most of rams are 2133/2400MHz at default with XMP overclocks to go above it

your ram is 2133MHz @ 1.2V, timings 15-15-15-36
with XMP is 3200MHz @ 1.35V, timings 16-18-18-36

its already at 50% overclock

 

[tangelo]

Ah I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

Would you suggest me to just stick with these?

 

[DMAN999]

What motherboard and CPU are you using them with ?
And have you tried them yet ?

 

[kerberos_20]

3200 cl16 isnt that bad if u got it cheap

 

[tangelo]

i7-9700k on MSI Mortar Z370m. Haven't tried them as I haven't put the rig together yet.

 

[DMAN999]

On an Intel build 3200 C16 should work well.
RAM speed isn't as important for overall performance on an Intel build as it is on an AMD Ryzen build.
OCing past 3200 won't gain any noticeable real world improvement on an Intel build as far as I am aware.

Even on my Ryzen 7 3700x build, going from 3200 to 3600 or even 3733 doesn't really give a lot of performance improvement.
There is improvement but it just isn't as noticable as going from 2133 or 2400 to 3200 or higher is.