AMD RYZEN 5000 SERIES 5950X, 5900X, 5800X & 5600X NOW ONLINE AT OcUK!!

I know its not so much fun for us consumers but AMD are not a charity and still need to make money. If they have the best then thay can charge for it and hopefully have more money to put in R&D etc to again make better products for us to all drool over :P
 
Apprantly a leaked slide from the press pack for AMD says that 4000mhz RAM is the sweetspot for Zen 3 for latency. And I just bought 3600mhz kits......sigh, guess i'll just have to buy a 4000mhz kit and sell the 3600mhz kit on the members market :D
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Yeah I made an educated guess on the RAM speed myself, sadly I was wrong but oh well. Bought the 4000mhz Teamgroup C18 "xtreme" about half an hour ago. I swear my bank account has been pounded this month harder than a pornstar doing overtime!
 
Well worst comes to worst, you gain very little performance but then if it turns out its a decent increase then 4000mhz ram will likely be out of stock everywhere once Zen 3 launches so its really a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation.
 
Doubtful, although I don't think hitting 4000mhz on Zen 3 will be a problem. Any Zen 2 chip thats been produced recently hasnt had problems hitting 1900mhz on the FCLK and some AMD Renior (mobile chips) have been hitting 2400mhz on the FCLK, this is mostly due to the 7nm process maturing over time. Also its possible they have made changes to the substrate which would allow for higher FCLK clocks as well. Either way I doubt running the FCLK at 2000mhz for 1:1 will be an issue on Zen 3
 
The FCLK, or Fabric Clock, is the frequency at which the IF, or Infinity Fabric, operates at. The Infinity Fabric interconnects the core components of the system (CPU, RAM, etc.), facilitating data and control transmission across linked components. By default it will be the same clock speed to your RAM (1800MHz FCLK : 1800MHz clock speed).
 
There seems to be a serious lack of 32gb kits at 4000mhz though. I’d rather go 32gb at 3600 than 16gb at 4000mhz.

Cities skylines already blasts through my current 16gb and now chugs along.

That said I imagine a 3600c16 kit will hit 4000 at c18 with a bit of tweaking.
 
JediFragger said:
Good to see AMD pushing the memory speeds! I found 32GB of Ballistix Max in about 2 seconds, am sure their will be kits out there.
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Surely the price to performance gain isn’t worth it though? From what I have seen the equivalent memory at 4000MHz is around £100+ more expensive for a 32GB kit, minimum. And what’s to say you can’t simply overclock a 3600 kit to the same?
 
VortX said:
Surely the price to performance gain isn’t worth it though? From what I have seen the equivalent memory at 4000MHz is around £100+ more expensive for a 32GB kit, minimum. And what’s to say you can’t simply overclock a 3600 kit to the same?
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In gaming at lower resolution you can gain quite a few FPS but 4K would make no difference.

Overclocking is not guarenteed though but you could go down that route to save some cash. You could also go with 16gb of faster ram depending on what games your playing as I personally have never seen a game use more than 12gb on my system but then I don't really play sim games.
 
Joxeon said:
In gaming at lower resolution you can gain quite a few FPS but 4K would make no difference.

Overclocking is not guarenteed though but you could go down that route to save some cash. You could also go with 16gb of faster ram depending on what games your playing as I personally have never seen a game use more than 12gb on my system but then I don't really play sim games.
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Marvel avengers in single player used 12.6gb on mine:eek:.
As you say though, I've yet to see a game get past 16gb
It crept up from 9gb as i played so could be a memory leak than gets fixed.
 
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