Soldato
3600Mhz CL16 is the sweet spot, RAM is relatively cheap at the moment compared to what it was in July (think I paid £150-160 for the 8pack stuff)and it's meant to go up again.
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Ryzen 3900X thread
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3600Mhz CL16 is the sweet spot, RAM is relatively cheap at the moment compared to what it was in July (think I paid £150-160 for the 8pack stuff)and it's meant to go up again.
Caporegime
Patriot viper steel series 4400mhz offers best value atm
Soldato
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picked up 64gb 3200 c16
hopefully the difference isnt hugeI would like 32GB (2x16) but this is only 16GB.
Caporegime
picked up 64gb 3200 c16
The top two higher rated speeds are samsung b die I think,so it pays to get thise and downclock them to around 3600 to 3800mhz with tight timings
At shaf just but 2 16gb kits
Man of Honour
Enabled virtualisation on my 3900X while I play around with Docker and teach myself Zalenium. No noticeable difference in performance around day to day use but I do get a 10-15% drop in Cinebench score. Is that expected? I would have though it would make no difference at all, either positive or negative as it's not used unless you're using a VM but does it do something within Windows and core utilisation that might affect a benchmark?
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What motherboard have u all went for ?
I run VM's and have tested with SVM enabled/disabled and it makes no difference to benchmarks for me.
Soldato
Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro
Caporegime
picked up 64gb 3200 c16
What speeds are you achieving with 4x16GB?
What is that board like? I have been worrying that the PCH fan, is noisy? or is the heatsink big enough not to have the fan on at all/much? thanks
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i was looking at the gigabyte master
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Stuck with my ASRock Taichi, does the job fine.
Why 'stuck'? I thought it was a good board.
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Strange. I get ~7500 with it off in Cinebench. Then if I enable it, around 68-6900. Disable it and straight back to 7500 or so
I had it since lunch and 0 problems. It performs really well.
posted in the other thread as well, but mixed reports of it causing issue, maybe a bios thing !!
https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1315634-does-virtualization-technology-slow-down-a-machine/
When I had that board the PCH fan would spin up but wasn't particularly noticeable over a "normal" case with 2-3 120mm fans installed.
In a more silence orientated build it might be noticeable although not really annoying.
I will say the fan was much quieter than the chipset fans of yor. I have a older XFX 780I SLI board that sounds like it will take off when the chipset fan ramps up!
Man of Honour
Ah sorry, missed that. Interesting, thanks!
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Yeah it's a great board, so just kept it rather than go x570 when I got the 3900x. One thing I will say is t asrock are garbage with support. Still no 1.0.0.4 official bios which was supposed to drop in November. Having to use beta bios to fix the boosting, which seems okay to new fair.