G.SKILL F4-3600C14Q-32GTZNB WORTH £400 ?
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With that build I would say yes; but value is definitely in the mind of the buyer. If you can afford to drop that much on it and want the absolute best from your new build, then go for it - I would. (tho my upgrade was last July 3900X, Gigabyte Aorous Master) and only just got a pair of 16GB Vengeance 3600 CL18 ARGB. I am very pleased with the performance, but had I had the budget I would have shelled out for those G.Skill's.
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I wouldn't pay that personally. A 3600mhz C16 32GB kit doesn't cost much over £100 and would be 2 dual rank 16GB modules.
The gains you'd get from this kit would be poor value.
The gains you'd get from this kit would be poor value.
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If you've got money to burn then sure why not? But if you have literally anything else you could spend the money on I would out the extra cash into that.
Not sure where you are finding 3600mhz C16 32GB for £100.. More like double that if not more ,C18 3600mhz is is costing anywhere from £150-£220 right now and anything cheaper is basically junk that will not even run at the speed stated.
Regarding the question the op asked, no that price is silly you can buy 64GB corsair C18 for £300 right now which is much better value for hardly any performance difference. Read my signiture and what I own. I purchased 4000mhz patriot originally but that was sent back as it was not hitting stable 3800mhz even and only worked right at 3600mhz and nothing to do with my system but just not good memory.. samsung B-die that was junk on any system with an AMD CPU, on Intel it would behave but behave is in the case of short benchmarks and in normal use would become unstable over time and again had to be dropped to 3800mhz with high timings or 3600mhz with lower timings but still..
Save yourself the money and get some 3600mhz that are on your QVL for the motherboard and use them, C18 is fine really, unless you game at 720p or 1080p to see any difference.
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If you want to splash serious cash this would be a better buy at £300:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...00c16-3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-my-002-8p.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...00c16-3600mhz-dual-channel-kit-my-002-8p.html
I got a 3200cl14 2x16 neo kit for 250 recently. Compared it to my 3600cl16 4x8 kit(s), all ran 3800cl14 no problem, the 2x16 with drd 14 instead of 15 for the quad. Don't need to spend 400 quid on them.... Even the 2x16 3800cl14 is cheaper when in stock.
Don't spend £400 on 32GB it's crazy for 3600mhz C16, when as you can see under here you can get 32GB for £150 that will be more than good enough and you could even tune the timings.
Get these:-
https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/Memory/VENGEANCE-LPX/p/CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18
Shop around they can be had right now for £148.51 at other e-tailers. Not sure why OCUK seem to think they cost £220 when even Corsair direct sell them for £155 with free shipping which always was the more expensive way to buy corsair ram, direct from them.
Stay away from memory not on the motherboard QVL with AMD X570 or B550 unless they say they are AMD optimised or on the motherboard QVL and say they will work, or expect a lot of headaches with a none posting system or unstable. Just not worth the headaches and expense to send memory back and again get more new ones again and hope they work. Stick to the basics with AMD and check the QVL on motherboards is the best advice I can give you.
Coming from a person that knows how to overclock ram and systems for over 35 years, this generation of CPUs and motherboard chipsets and BIOS for motherboards is nothing more than headaches for ram overclocking or even simple XMP profiles.
Look at my signiture and what I own and guess what I went for 4000mhz ram at the start and was nothing but headaches and would work at basically £150 speed memory and even when I got it to work at slightly higher the gains were not here or there and the only thing was a more unstable system. Not worth the headaches. Spend the £250 saved on something else for your pc that you will see some gains from.
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I have the 2 X 16GB (32GB) kit of G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL17 and they are brilliant. However i have a micro board and i plan to buy a EATX board to fit same speed or CL14 / CL15 with 4 X 8GB kit. I'm thinking of going for the Trident Silver Royals or maybe even XPG, TeamForce or Ballistix ARGB ones because they look so good.