Treacherous-Joseph

G.Skill Ripjaws V 3600mhz CL16 timings: 16-19-19-39 (MODEL number: F4-3600C16D-32GVKC ) Crucial Ballistix 3600mhz CL16 timings: 16-18-18 (I think its supposed to be 16-16-18-18) (MODEL number: BL2K8G36C16U4B ) I currently own the Ripjaws V set and was interested in going up to 32gb of ram. I noticed however that the ballistix kit is cheaper, then another kit, of the same one I have. Would love to hear which sticks I can/should match my current ones with. Thank you for your time.

Yes, but the 5600x stock is currently, 2020 levels of bad. The R7 3700x maybe come at "the same" / "even lower" cost. With the exception of the GPU, we are currently looking to make the build as relatively, low-cost as possible, while keeping the needs of the GPU in mind.

Is this in reference to SAM? What about NVidia's implementation of that? Is it known whether that's going to need a mobo that supports PCIE gen 4? how about an elusive old rtx 3080 + r7 3700x on a B450?

Im helping a friend theory craft his future build, when stock stabilizes, but I myself don't know whether or not PCIE 4.0 support matters for the new GPUs specifically (were excluding gen 4 SSDs for his build atm.). Has any reviewer tried to benchmark the cards, with the same CPU, on something like a B450 TOMAHAWK MAX vs B550 TOMAHAWK scenario? Thank you for your time.

Build: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: RX 5700 XT Red Devil Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 16gb (2x8), 3600mhz, CL16 SSD: SAMSUNG QVO 1TB CPU Cooler: Arctic eSport 34 DUO PSU: - || - Case: Cooler master nr600 case fans: 3x Noctua nf-s12b 1200 PWM + 2 included case fans EDIT: To add more context. I saw this post on this forum: and was wondering how far this problem extends? My country has a shortage of PSUs right now and this one is available. First time building my own PC btw..