I have been debating G. Skill vs Corsair and 4 sticks vs 2 sticks. I know that I want a total of 32GB of RAM at a speed of 3600MHz since that is the sweet spot for the Ryzen 5900x and works best with the infinity fabric ratio. I was looking at the Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB and can get the 3600 kit with latency as low as 16. Then I started looking at the G. Skill Trident Z Neo as that is supposed to be high quality RAM and is optimized for AMD. I can get latency as low as 14 with G. Skill. The C14 kit does run at 1.45v instead of 1.35.
I don't plan on overclocking the RAM above 3600MHz since I feel like that would be more than fast enough and again, the sweet spot to work with infinity fabric. I see a few options here. I could buy a C16 kit and hope it has enough headroom to tighten up the timings to 14. I could buy the C14 kit and basically set the XMP and forget it. I could buy the C16 kit and set and forget.
I am heavily leaning toward the G. Skill RAM and even the C14 kit is on the QVL list. The Corsair is only on the QVL for the C18 kit.
One concern I have is the 1.45 v on the C14 kit. Is this going to run too hot and will it be a must to have a RAM cooler?
The G. Skill kits I am looking at are the F4-3600C16D-32GTZN and the same part number with 3600C14D. The difference in price is only about $40 and I am not basing my purchase on price anyways.
After extensive research I cannot come to a conclusion on 2 sticks vs 4 and which one (if either) runs faster. What I do know is that the 4 stick kit may not reach the advertised speed and will be difficult to overclock. I have decided to go with a 2 stick kit. If I am correct I should be installing the sticks in slots 2 and 4 of the motherboard?
My specs for new build are:
Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard
Ryzen 5900X CPU
MSI 3080 Gaming Z Trio GPU
Samsung 980 Pro 1TB x2 M.2 SSD
Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W PSU
Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm AIO
Corsair 780T case
I don't plan on overclocking the RAM above 3600MHz since I feel like that would be more than fast enough and again, the sweet spot to work with infinity fabric. I see a few options here. I could buy a C16 kit and hope it has enough headroom to tighten up the timings to 14. I could buy the C14 kit and basically set the XMP and forget it. I could buy the C16 kit and set and forget.
I am heavily leaning toward the G. Skill RAM and even the C14 kit is on the QVL list. The Corsair is only on the QVL for the C18 kit.
One concern I have is the 1.45 v on the C14 kit. Is this going to run too hot and will it be a must to have a RAM cooler?
The G. Skill kits I am looking at are the F4-3600C16D-32GTZN and the same part number with 3600C14D. The difference in price is only about $40 and I am not basing my purchase on price anyways.
After extensive research I cannot come to a conclusion on 2 sticks vs 4 and which one (if either) runs faster. What I do know is that the 4 stick kit may not reach the advertised speed and will be difficult to overclock. I have decided to go with a 2 stick kit. If I am correct I should be installing the sticks in slots 2 and 4 of the motherboard?
My specs for new build are:
Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard
Ryzen 5900X CPU
MSI 3080 Gaming Z Trio GPU
Samsung 980 Pro 1TB x2 M.2 SSD
Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W PSU
Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm AIO
Corsair 780T case