Question Gskill TridentZ 3600 CL16 or 3200 CL14?

[raydeon]

Eyeing on these two 16gb sets as my final choice of RAM for the new 3900x x570 build. For mostly gaming.

Hoping to overclock them in the future so these two are b-die correct?

Can you pros give me any suggestion? Thx!

 

[PC Tailor]

If you're referring to the CL:
CAS Latency is a bit of a misleading term, and not a true reflection of true latency. As really you need the duration of the clock cycle as well as the number of clock cycles.
And typically, as speed has increased, true latency has typically "plateaued", which isn't reflected by the CAS latency.

So in short, go for Speed over CAS.
Opt for the 3600 if the rest of your rig can take it.

You can see a much more detailed look here:
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/memory-performance-speed-latency

 

[dphotog]

Gskill is literally coming out with new sticks at 3600 CL 14 for the new Ryzens this month if u can wait for those. They are Volted for 1.4 so im not sure if you want to go that way for simplicity rather than trying to go crazy and figure out manual overclocking with the two sticks you are looking at.

Just know that apparently the 3900x has such a large L3 cache now that memory doesnt have as much as a big impact like its predecessors. It does help. but alot of reviewers are defaulting to the 3600mhz number and not trying for 3733mhz like the slides in the Ryzen charts said.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssuqhyqah2k