Gaming Ram suggestion for B450M Tomahawk and Ryzen 3600

philmo · 21 Dec 2019 at 11:15

Ram is an area I know least about, I mostly game so I would think 16GB is enough, is this generally the case ?

It will be paired with a B450M Tomahawk and Ryzen 3600.

Also Can anyone suggest some decent memory 16GB - I have seen suggestions ranging from Team Group at £49.99 to Corsair Vengeance at £92.99.

I don't mind spending over £100 if needed, but what the best value vs performance.

Thanks

gupsterg · 21 Dec 2019 at 11:52

Off of OCUK best price/performance these I reckon, if you like to tinker with RAM then these. Latter will be Samsung B die from set I had, only snag is mine (and have read other experience) heat spreaders can pop off those, perhaps they have improved, dunno.

philmo · 21 Dec 2019 at 12:42

gupsterg said:
Off of OCUK best price/performance these I reckon, if you like to tinker with RAM then these. Latter will be Samsung B die from set I had, only snag is mine (and have read other experience) heat spreaders can pop off those, perhaps they have improved, dunno.

Thanks for that, I have no plans to tinker with Ram.
I note the Viper Ram is showing as 4000mhz, is the Tomahawk MB not limited to way below that ?

And for the T-Force you have suggested will they vary much to say more well known brands which run at 3200mhz ?

This is mainly for gaming.

Thanks again

gupsterg · 21 Dec 2019 at 13:17

NP.

Ryzen 3000 series best to run is Infinity Fabric:IMC:RAM (FCLK:UCLK:MEMCLK) 1:1:1. I've owned 1x R5 3600, 1x R7 3700X and 3x R9 3900X, all hit 3733MHz 1:1:1, only 2 CPUs hit 3800MHz.

So yes the 4000MHz RAM is slightly overkill, but as it's priced nice I'd opt for it and as it's Samsung B die it can tighten up nicely on timings vs other RAM IC. Compared with 1000/2000 series CPU on the 3000 series I do reckon tight RAM timings don't give them as much gain, but there is still some.

If you can get 3200MHz at same price I would opt for it, if you can't then TBH you're not gonna miss out on much with the 3000MHz.

The other aspect is GPU you use. You could go read a review of RAM MHz scaling on Ryzen and think "wow wanna go beast RAM", but if you're GPU isn't high end, you may not even see the scaling.

Techspot IMO did a good set of testing of RAM scaling with other GPUs. Be aware if you game at say 1440P and above that scaling may even be less.

Holst1981 · 21 Dec 2019 at 14:31

Ryzen doesn’t require premium memory to perform at its best and for those buying a Ryzen 5 model we’d actually strongly suggest avoiding spending money on expensive memory, just get the cheap stuff and tune it up if you’re getting a little too CPU bound.

I'm happy sticking with my 3000 ram for the moment.

We're I buying new I would probably still get the cheaper B die kits.
Patriot 4400 for £99 seems like the best buy if you can be bothered to tune it.