5700X 3200mhz or 3600mhz?

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So I was about to pull the trigger on a 2x16gb cas CAS 16-19-19-36 3600mhz Corsair Vengeance kit for £88 delivered... I know I simply enable xmp on my b550m msi mortar max wifi board and it 'should work'...
But I'd forgotten AMD states 3200mhz for compatibility?

Is there any gain when I'm not going to be overclocking the pc and infact undervolting it.

Should I just get the same kit but in 3200mhz cas 16-20-20-38 form for £64 delivered?

Will I have any issues using the 3600mhz?

This is the first rig I'll have built in like 15 years so all I've got to go on is what I've seen mixed opinions of online...

The price difference doesn't bother me, but I want this machine to be rock solid and not end up with a nasty surprise and find out it's the ram at fault!

Open to your experiences!
 
3600mhz is fine on a b550 but memory can be finicky with tighter timings, there's always that chance of instability but that can be more than just the memory itself.

If you think it's worth then buy it.

The days of overclocking and tinkering won't give you the gains of years past.
I'm literally doing zero overclocking, just undervolting and only using it for gaming...

Someone elsewhere said the following "3600 RAM is supposed to offer close to optimal price to performance on Ryzen 3 since it's close to the infinity fabric clock speed. That said, I doubt very much you'd notice a difference in performance were you to run 3200 RAM, but that might depend on the workloads you're running on your system." Opinions?
 
This maybe true but equates to a few FPS , if you don't mind spending then go for it nothing wrong it getting the best .

I look at it slightly different 35% extra in cost resulting in let's be generous 10% more fps .
Yeah I mean I'm already going for a 7900XT and after as much futureproofing bonuses as possible so yeah may as well I guess now haha, for the sake of £24, that's a bottle of whisky at best or some fuel.
As long as I'm not going to get an instability then screw it!
 
Someone else just told me "3600 is indeed optimum because it's essentially zero effort infinity "tune up" to increase it from 1600 up to 1800 MHz." so again seems like a no brainer for the cost of a bottle of booze difference considering how mad cheap it is for c16 vs c18 and it being 32gb :)

Cheers for your help yet again mate!
 
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