G. Skill announces memory for AMD 5000 series

This whole rank situation is an annoying mess and I don’t think there is any sort of clarity as to whether sticks for purchase are dual rank or not.

The description I’ve found on one retailer for the 4x8gb cl14 GSkill set says that each stick is double sided.... so what, 8 ranks?
 
This whole rank situation is an annoying mess and I don’t think there is any sort of clarity as to whether sticks for purchase are dual rank or not.

The description I’ve found on one retailer for the 4x8gb cl14 GSkill set says that each stick is double sided.... so what, 8 ranks?

Quad channel dual rank?
 
This whole rank situation is an annoying mess and I don’t think there is any sort of clarity as to whether sticks for purchase are dual rank or not.

The description I’ve found on one retailer for the 4x8gb cl14 GSkill set says that each stick is double sided.... so what, 8 ranks?

8GB sticks come in single and double sided dimms but usually single rank.
16GB sticks come in double sided and can be single or dual rank, although usually it's dual.
There's also quad rank but it's only really used in servers.

I agree, it's really annoying that it's not specified when on sale considering it has such a large effect on performance. It seems the Crucial Ballistix 32GB kits can be either and there's no way of knowing until it turns up.

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8GB sticks come in single and double sided dimms but usually single rank.
16GB sticks come in double sided and can be single or dual rank, although usually it's dual.
There's also quad rank but it's only really used in servers.

I agree, it's really annoying that it's not specified when on sale considering it has such a large effect on performance. It seems the Crucial Ballistix 32GB kits can be either and there's no way of knowing until it turns up.

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Super helpful diagram. So even if an 8gb stick is double sided it can still be single rank. So I shouldn’t necessarily be put off by the 4x8gb RAM being ‘double sided’.

I guess the only way to know is if the manufacturers state the position.
 
(Sorry for the triple post)

I’ve emailed GSkill so they can confirm the position on the F4-3600C14Q-32GTRSB kit. Super pimping and arguably bugly, but available.
 
I might be being stupid here but why is this specifically 'optimized for the new AMD Ryzen 5000 processors'?

Is is any different ordereing some good 3600Mhz CAS16 and upping the volts to 1.45 and running them at CAS14. Or higher frequency CAS16?
 
8GB sticks come in single and double sided dimms but usually single rank.
16GB sticks come in double sided and can be single or dual rank, although usually it's dual.
There's also quad rank but it's only really used in servers.

I agree, it's really annoying that it's not specified when on sale considering it has such a large effect on performance. It seems the Crucial Ballistix 32GB kits can be either and there's no way of knowing until it turns up.

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B-DIE 16GB stick is always Dual rank because there is no B-DIE 16GB Single rank.
Only Ballistix Max has 16GB Single rank
 
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Just bopped in a pre-order for the Trident Z Neo DDR4-3800 CL14-16-16-36 32GB (16GBx2) kit.

Says in the link in the OP that it's B-Die... so 4 ranks (woo).

Was just under £350. Thought it was worth a punt and I quite like the RGB.
 
Test of F4-4000C16D-32GVK here. 3800mhz 1.5v maxed out timings on CH8 Impact using a 5600x. Good kit, doubt there will be much more benefit from any other 2 x 16gb kit for AMD unless they can fix the WHEA errors over 1900mhz IF.
All that's really left to lower after tuning at 3800mhz is TRCDRD as this kit wont do 14. GDM enabled required for this kit, will not do 1T CMD with decent timings.

Interested to see if the F4-3800C14D-32GTZN kit will do TRCDRD 14 stable and/or 1T CMD rate through testmem5 or karhu @ 3800mhz 1.5v.

uc
 
Test of F4-4000C16D-32GVK here. 3800mhz 1.5v maxed out timings on CH8 Impact using a 5600x. Good kit, doubt there will be much more benefit from any other 2 x 16gb kit for AMD unless they can fix the WHEA errors over 1900mhz IF.
All that's really left to lower after tuning at 3800mhz is TRCDRD as this kit wont do 14. GDM enabled required for this kit, will not do 1T CMD with decent timings.

Interested to see if the F4-3800C14D-32GTZN kit will do TRCDRD 14 stable and/or 1T CMD rate through testmem5 or karhu @ 3800mhz 1.5v.

uc
I’ll have to have a play around when it arrived and when I build the bloomin’ thing. No space until a house move in the new year :o

The rate that things seem to be out of stock though.... thought I’d rather not be bummed out waiting for the kit I had my eye on.

I’m a complete noob so going to have to read every post you’ve done :p
 
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