Where's the sweet spot for Ryzen 7?

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So contemplating an upgrade to Ryzen 7 from my 10700K.

Memory is the big question as I know squat about DDR5. I see most reviews are using 6000 (or higher) speeds with CAS30 but this is hideously expensive it seems.

I like G.Skill generally and am currently using 2x16GB 3600 CL16 B-Die stuff.
If I were to go Ryzen 7 with DDR5, do I need to shell out a fortune for 6000CL30? Is CL36 much slower?

Just unsure where the best bang-for-buck is right now and whether prices are still dropping and better to wait.
 
From the scaling articles I've seen (e.g. Guru3d), it doesn't matter, you can buy whatever is a good deal. Wouldn't you be better off going with an i5-13600K and keeping your RAM?
 
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No advantages to go fast at all... 4400mhz even equals 6000mhz well less than 1% difference...
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I saw some benchmarks where minimums were increased quite a lot but that was on either raptor lake or alder lake. Is that because it's a totally different.... whatever you call it architecture.

Actually that was showing the same CPU difference between DDR4 and 5 not separate ddr5 speedsPost in thread '*** AMD "Zen 4" thread (inc AM5/APU discussion) ***' https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...inc-am5-apu-discussion.18897108/post-35949416
 
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So apparently its 6000mhz DDR. Which seems a little sad given that we are now already seeing 7200 DDR5 a month into the 670/650 chipset launch. And these chipsets are going to last at least, what, until Zen5 in 18 months? There is going to be a lot of much faster DDR5 by that time.

I feel that AMD was really far too conservative on their infinity fabric tuning for this generation.
 
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