*** The Official Alder Lake owners thread ***

[JediFragger]

And people were worried about DDR5 latency, shows how they never understood how it works. DDR5 @ CL32 gets 50ns

Yup, when DDR5 gets really motoring I'll switch over (only really a gaming and general use machine so DDR4 is fine). Raptor Lake or Zen4 prob be out by then too

 

[alexkyriak]

Just waiting on motherboard pre-orders. One with OCUK and two with two other competitors.

Asus Extreme, Formula and Hero. No idea who’s going to come up trumps first. This ‘shortage’ is really rather annoying.

Have the RAM and the CPU in hand, and also waiting on a waterblock from EK (velocity 1700) so won’t be building until first week December at least…

 

[JediFragger]

Yeah @alexkyriak seems I was v lucky with my Strix Gaming D4 as looks like I got the last one! It's only a gaming and general use machine so fast DDR4 will be fine for it

Loving the Asus boards though, damn quality!

 

[DexterMorgan]

Hiya.
How long you all been waiting for your mounting kits from different manufacturers?
Ive got all the gear ready except the cooling for CPU and I'm not sure what to do now to get my rig up and running... Ordered retro kit from corsairs but they've not even processed the order...

 

[Robert896r1]

Reminder kids, just say no to Micron. Hynix or Samsung only.

 

[Grim5]

why your gpu on pcie 2 LMAO

 

[Robert896r1]

why your gpu on pcie 2 LMAO

not mine. I’m gonna chill till Samsung. Also certain unannounced boards are doing 7200 g2 daily so that’ll be interesting to see as well.

 

[JediFragger]

Reminder kids, just say no to Micron. Hynix or Samsung only.

Zammo has spoken

 

[Kelt]

Will be getting myself a 12700K and a Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro before Xmas, hopefully the Crucial Dominator 5200 memory will be available by then.

 

[Dave2150]

Will be getting myself a 12700K and a Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Pro before Xmas, hopefully the Crucial Dominator 5200 memory will be available by then.

Corsair dominators are only 5200Mhz and are Micron IC's, which are the worst type of DDR5. I'd reccommend waiting for a 6200, 6400Mhz kit, as these have a MSRP of the same £400ish that the Corsair kits are currently selling at, and are signifcantly faster.

I personally opted for a temporary 16GB 4800Mhz kit to use, while I wait for a 32GB 6400Mhz Gskill or similar kit.

 

[alexkyriak]

Oh great.... I have the Corsair Dominators. I clearly know nothing of the world of RAM!

 

[Dave2150]

Oh great.... I have the Corsair Dominators. I clearly know nothing of the world of RAM!

They're not bad, they were in fact the best you could buy on release just because they were all that was available. It's just that at close to £400 that they were being sold for (due to supply/demand) they are significantly overpriced, vs their MSRP of £280.

The 6200Mhz+ kits have MSRP's of £380-400, so once production/supply catches up, these will be much better buys and will of course be much faster.

 

[Robert896r1]

Where you seeing these msrp @Dave2150 for hynix?

 

[Dave2150]

Where you seeing these msrp @Dave2150 for hynix?

Against forum rules to link or be specific, can be found with google.

 

[Ayahuasca]

I've decided I'll definitely be buying one of these but as above will be waiting for some faster DDR5 kits at lower price points.

 

[Kelt]

Corsair dominators are only 5200Mhz and are Micron IC's, which are the worst type of DDR5. I'd reccommend waiting for a 6200, 6400Mhz kit, as these have a MSRP of the same £400ish that the Corsair kits are currently selling at, and are signifcantly faster.

I personally opted for a temporary £100 16GB 4800Mhz kit to use, while I wait for a 32GB 6400Mhz Gskill or similar kit.

Meh, I guess I can wait a few more months for the faster memory.

What's wrong with Micron, is it just slower by a few %?

I really want the Dominators, like the look of them, and I already run iCue so could control them from that.

Do Corsair use Micron exclusively or do they use others, I wonder?

 

[Journey]

Anyone tried the Kingston Fury Beast 5200MHZ C40 DDR5 32GB kit? I've got a build to do for someone, and it's the only decent kit I can find for ~£230.

 

[Dave2150]

Meh, I guess I can wait a few more months for the faster memory.

What's wrong with Micron, is it just slower by a few %?

I really want the Dominators, like the look of them, and I already run iCue so could control them from that.

Do Corsair use Micron exclusively or do they use others, I wonder?

Micron doesn't seem to overclock at all, most report not being able to post with anything > 5200Mhz. Whereas, Samsung or SK Hynix IC's overclock to 6400Mhz+ more easily. I imagine the XMP 3.0 kits @ 6400Mhz + will all use exclusively SK/Samsung.

 

[turbot1984]

Reminder kids, just say no to Micron. Hynix or Samsung only.

Quite right ... a bit annoying when they mix identical kits like mine

 

[Distracted]

Quite right ... a bit annoying when they mix identical kits like mine

That was bought as a kit? As in, a matched pair in the same packaging?