Ram Suggestions

[Aidan.69420]

I’m building a pc with an AMD RYZEN 5 3600 and RTX 2060 Super.  I’ve chosen G. Skill Ripjaws (2 x 8GB) but was wondering if there is any better similarly priced ram for gaming, or wondering if I should go for 32GB(I’m ok with spending a bit more for more ram), either 2 x 16GB, or 4 x 8GB.  (I’ll mostly play Rainbow Six Siege, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Minecraft with shaders and textures). If you have any suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated

[TheBean]

r3600 does not support quad channel so there would be no difference in 2x16 or 4x8. 

but you can always get FAST ram. for the games you listed, 3200mhz is a good speed for ryzen

[alyen]

Ryzen 3000 seems to work best with only 2 ram slots if you are trying to run it at 3600MHz or whatever the highest speed possible. I think with 4 sticks of ram it can only do something like 2666Mhz or some slower speed.

[crotach]

G.Skill has new memory sticks made for Ryzen 3000 called TridentZ Neo that are cheaper than Ripjaws (assuming you're looking at Samsung B-die ones)

 

2x8GB is probably enough for most things. I went for 2x16GB since I was already coming from a 32GB machine and I run a lot of VMs.