I bought some Patriot viper steel 4400 CL19 seeing as the reviewers got 3600 CL16 @1.35v. At the time (couple months back) is was going for around £160 2x8gb
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I bought some Patriot viper steel 4400 CL19 seeing as the reviewers got 3600 CL16 @1.35v. At the time (couple months back) is was going for around £160 2x8gb
E: I think this is without PBO too.
If it is without PBO and the Auto overclock, then even B350/450 boards should get that through normal XFR/Precision Boost.
I suspect everyone is currently testing with an X570, and I bet PBO is now the default as it's an actual AMD stock feature.
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It's your money to burn.
But you really don't need anything rated higher than 3200 to 3600 to get the most from Ryzen.
I like the Dark Pro B-Die memory kits.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3200mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08l-tg.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-black-my-08q-tg.html
G Skill Trident Z memory is good stuff as well.
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I agree, it really all depends on the future upgradability of x570, to determine if memory over 3466mhz (max on many b450 boards) is worth it.
But performance is better with DDR4 4000, even on a budget board, particulary in games such as Fallout 4. But I think DDR 5 will yield much greater gains.
Old School Gamer, the memory you posted is quite expensive when you can buy higher cl ddr4 8x2gb 3200 - 3400 kits for £70-81.
But performance is better with DDR4 4000, even on a budget board, particulary in games such as Fallout 4. But I think DDR 5 will yield much greater gains.
Old School Gamer, the memory you posted is quite expensive when you can buy higher cl ddr4 8x2gb 3200 - 3400 kits for £70-81.
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Well you get what you pay for. 
Cheap is normally cheap for a reason.
Cheap is normally cheap for a reason.
Maybe on Intel yes, Gen3 Ryzen no
If you've found a 3200 C14 kit for £70-81 then I'm all ears.
Mildy interesting, out of all the Geekbench scores for Ryzen 3000 so far it's still the 3600 on an X470 with the ST crown of 5953 @ 4.3GHz (+100MHz)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13678723
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/13678723
I've already got some Team Group B-die 3200C14 stuff. I'm saying if he's supposedly found a set of B-Die 3200C14 stuff for £70-80, then it probably isn't B-die.
Problem is whether the clock speed is being correctly reported.
I would guess no (that multicore score is very high). So that might be overclocked to 4.5ghz or something.
B550 will still be ASMedia and only to PCIe 3.0 standard.
A520 is rumoured to only support PCIe 3.0 too, but it's still an ASMedia design.
https://www.techpowerup.com/256593/amd-b550-and-a520-lack-pcie-gen-4-capabilities
It's in-depth stuff, will be more in-depth this time around as they've changed their CPU testing suite to include more games & benchmarks. If you want simple stuff, you've got Linus.
A520 is completely different to the B550.
It's not that Steve has more information than say Hardware Unboxed. He just has atrocious charts. The graphics cards ones are the worst. I really don't care how a 1060 compares in a 2080ti review.
https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3486-nvidia-rtx-2060-super-and-2070-super-review-benchmarks
It's not so bad on a web page where you scroll down, but on videos it comes as very hard to read. Also the 2060 and 2070 super charts actually look cut back! They used to be worse.