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It’s quite incredible you can use slow ram and hardly lose any performance.
Happy to hear you finally got your system built and online dude. It's been a long time coming.. How you enjoying it so far?
It’s been awesome. Really rapid system! After hearing the issues with RAM I was expecting problems but EXPO II ran straight away and I’ve not had any issues so far. After getting all the drivers installed I started pushing the GPU a bit in Adrenalin (currently 3000/5500) and benching in Port Royal.
The B650E-E is the board I'm looking at, and I follow Laurent too..I like his style when reviewing boards and goes into detail. How are you finding it? I can get for £330 where I am, the X670e-e for £390, so still deciding. don't know if I need the extra of the x670e-e, as the b board seems to have everything I want, but idea of going more premium is to futureproof myself as much as possible
there are X670E options below £320 imho that is the ceiling unless you are shopping for something very specific
....depending on your use case, you can't say that across the board and in general terms imho there are plenty of situations, applications and games that will have a cache miss against 128MB and need to go out to your RAM.
My use case is gaming, and I can indeed say that from my own testing.
What ram are you using Matt?My use case is gaming, and I can indeed say that from my own testing.
I was using 2x16GB 6000C30 single rank sticks, but a week before the X3D I've moved to 2x32GB 6000C30 dual rank sticks. Currently running them at 6000C28 with tuned timings. X3D parts have about 4-5ns worse latency in Aida64 vs non X3D parts, I get about 58ns in Aida64 with these timings.
That latency isn’t bad at all. Just with you saying that these CPU’s can run on slower memory without much difference, I thought you might have tested a CL36 kit or similar. Im keen to find out how much difference it actually makes on these. I might have to buy another kit and test myself if mine ever arrives that is.
As I've said before, you can run your 6000c36 Sammy kit at 6000c30 - 34 _34_58 with 65535 trefi. Just bump the voltage to 1.4 - 1.435 and you good to go.
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I tested 5200Mhz C28 and there was not much difference at all. If you go X3D, just get the cheapest kit you can find and tune it yourself. No need to get the fastest memory kit to get top tier performance on X3D.
I actually managed to get a CL30 kit which I’ll tune anyway. I’m just interested in how much difference this would make. I’ve heard it mentioned quite a bit that it doesn’t matter as much, but others say it still does. I’d just like to see someone test it and find out.
That’s good to hear.
No issues so far. Make sure Game bar / Game mode are enabled (they are by default in Windows), update game bar via Window Store, install chipset drivers, away you go. Some motherboard manufacturer's (Asus and Gigabyte that I know of so far) are adding an option in the BIOS that does this automatically without needing to worry about Game bar.
Ahh good I’ve bought an Asus board.
I think you can install the chipset drivers over the top of the old ones. I’d probably suggest a clean OS install long term though.
Mine is actually misbehaving. I think because I'm using a very old Windows install (previously I had an Ryzen 2700X, then 5800X and now the 7950X3D), some of the settings are messed up. Notably I think the power plan is not setup correctly and something I installed may have modified it along the way.
It won't arrive until tomorrow, but if you can get an Asus ROG Strix X670E-E for £390, that is a bargain, you can only get the Asus ROG Strix X670E-F around these parts for over £400 (Which is not as good), the Asus ROG Strix X670E-E is well over £500!
