Good Evening everyone,
A couple of months back, I upgraded from my i7 5820X (X299) setup to a Ryzen 9 5900X and AM4 motherboard (X570 Aorus Master). I brought over my quad channel memory kit which is a Corsair CMU32GX4M4C3000C15. For the sake of not making everyone look this up, it is a 32gb (4x8gb) kit rated at 3000 mHZ and a CAS Latency of 15. As with my upgrade, I had intended to slowly rebuild the entire system (i.e. memory, nvme SSD, graphics card, etc). I am considering upgrading the ram to a 3600 mHZ kit that has a CAS latency of 18 and/or CAS 16 ( both Trident Z Neo Kits - 32gb). Given that fact that having a lower CAS is generally better, my question is would I be better suited to continue using my 3000 mHZ kit or would the 3600mHZ be a better bet even at a higher latency to pair with the 5900X given Ryzen's demand for faster memory in general.
Generally speaking if I was still on Intel, I would even really consider a swap as it really doesn't matter. This is my first AMD system since my old Athlon 6400 from back in the day.
Thanks in advance
A couple of months back, I upgraded from my i7 5820X (X299) setup to a Ryzen 9 5900X and AM4 motherboard (X570 Aorus Master). I brought over my quad channel memory kit which is a Corsair CMU32GX4M4C3000C15. For the sake of not making everyone look this up, it is a 32gb (4x8gb) kit rated at 3000 mHZ and a CAS Latency of 15. As with my upgrade, I had intended to slowly rebuild the entire system (i.e. memory, nvme SSD, graphics card, etc). I am considering upgrading the ram to a 3600 mHZ kit that has a CAS latency of 18 and/or CAS 16 ( both Trident Z Neo Kits - 32gb). Given that fact that having a lower CAS is generally better, my question is would I be better suited to continue using my 3000 mHZ kit or would the 3600mHZ be a better bet even at a higher latency to pair with the 5900X given Ryzen's demand for faster memory in general.
Generally speaking if I was still on Intel, I would even really consider a swap as it really doesn't matter. This is my first AMD system since my old Athlon 6400 from back in the day.
Thanks in advance
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