Good current motherboard + ram for upcoming Zen 3?

[Devious]

I'm currrently running a 3770K so I am long due a system upgrade and I am well out of touch with CPUs.
Ive got my eye on the new Zen3.

I have a 30% off voucher for another store but it has to be used by the 12th October, so unfortunately cant wait for the Zen3 release.

I believe some current Zen2 motherboard will be compatible with Zen3, is there any recommendations for a current good low/midrange board + DDR4 ram. I dont need all the bells and whistles, juat a good stable clocking motherboard.

I hear DDR 5 is coming sometime for Zen3 but thats not this year right?

Cheers

 

[Devious]

Great, thanks i will check those boards out and see if available.

Is Crucial Ballistix 3600 any good?

 

[Devious]

there has been deals already and on going. boards that are normally 150 going down to as low as £100

Ive seen a couple of micro ATX deals around £100 but not full ATX.

If aiming for B550 you should be looking for closer to £150 prices.
£200 gets good X570 board without problem of constantly running chipset fan.

Micron rev-E in Crucial Ballistix kits would clock quite close to Samsung B-die.
Whose top bins (3200MHz 14-14-14/3600MHz 16-16-16) are the best DDR4s... but cost really lot.

DDR5 is coming with Zen4 and (likely) AM5 platform.

Cheers, I think ill go for either the 16GB Ballistix BL2K8G36C16U4B 3600 or Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB

 

[Devious]

Remember that higher bus clock compensates some latency values.
For example 3600MHz 16-16-16 has roughly equal absolute latencies as 3200MHz 14-14-14.
And latency value of 18 is 10ns at 3600MHz, which equals to 16 "clock ticks" at 3200MHz.


While higher bus speed itself helps with Ryzens because of increasing speed of CPU's internal InfinityFabric bus.


That Crucial is faster in latencies:
CAS: 8.89ns vs 10ns
tRCD: 10ns vs 11.25ns
tRP: 10ns vs 11.25ns
tRAS: 21.11ns vs 22.5ns

Ill go for the crucial then unless you can recommend a better alternative under £70?

 

[Devious]

I holding out for the Zen3 series too. Hope there are benchmarks released later today.

 

[Devious]

So... how are folks feeling about Zen 3? Price rise and no cooler (not that it was a huge factor to begin with). Will be interesting to see how they 5800X performs. Got very little stage time.

Not sure really, looking at other options now as I dont want to wait that long to upgrade. I might get a B550 + 3600 now and switch CPU later.

 

[Devious]

I went for the 32GB 3200 C16 and it seems happy at 3600.