Question RAM with better CL or tune the timings myself?

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Hey everyone, I wanna buy some new 3200MHz RAM for my Ryzen 3600 system. Ideally the RAM has a CAS latency of 14, but these sticks are expensive where I live, so could I just buy RAM with a CAS latency of 15 or even 16 and tune the timings myself to get down to 14? If so, how much of a hassle is this?

Thanks!
 
Hey everyone, I wanna buy some new 3200MHz RAM for my Ryzen 3600 system. Ideally the RAM has a CAS latency of 14, but these sticks are expensive where I live, so could I just buy RAM with a CAS latency of 15 or even 16 and tune the timings myself to get down to 14? If so, how much of a hassle is this?

Thanks!
Much depends on MB and it's BIOS as well as on RAM. At same frequency Cl doesn't really do much for performance. At let's say 3200MHz you would be hard pressed to see difference between Cl14 and 15, maybe not even with Cl16 except in benchmarks.