Looking for ram advice

[Icy Redeemer]

basically what the title says. getting back into the pc building after over 10 years out.

the build so far: ( any tips or changes/advice on component lineup would be appreciated as well. trying to go higher...ish end and hope to hit the magical fps for at least a few years )

Ryzen 7 3700x ( seems to keep up with the 3900x pretty good so no need for another 170$ )

msi meg x570 ace ( room for lots of additions, vrms, m.2... etc )

1tb m.2 nvme ( upgrading storage as time passes or later date better prices etc )

msi gaming x trio 2080ti ( hoping this blatant overkill hits the 1440p sweetspot for as long as possible )

corsair rmx750

and the lg 34gk950f (ultrawide 1440p 144refresh ~5ms latency)

 

so for hours and hours of research from what i can tell 3600mhz seems to be the better spot for fps in gaming according to several articles I have read on their benchmarks. beating out 3200s on CAS14 if i remember what i read correctly. what mind F's me is nearly all bundle deals and prebuilts ive been comparing to are included with 3200mhz

i have never memory overclocked before and from what i understand you can tighten up the timings which seems useful given the 3600 kits i have been looking at in under the 200$ range are CAS18.

 

anyways is the 3200 the better bet or is the 3600 in this case the better deal since ryzens infinity splits after 3733?

 

Thank you for your time

 

[Derrk]

3600 will give you the best performance on ryzen 3700x, but 3200mhz won't be terrible either. some 3200 kits can be overclocked to 3600, but overclocking memory isn't very fun so i don't suggest trying that. Go with whatever's in your budget, you'll have a kick-ass system either way.

 

3200 kits are much more common, so that's why you're seeing them in prebuilds and bundles. 3600 used to be extremely expensive a year or so ago, so most manufacturers focused on 3200mhz, perhaps particularly since that was the sweet spot for ryzen 2000 series.

[Icy Redeemer]

thank you very much for your reply. it is greatly appreciated.

only other thing i was concerned about was the difference between 2x8 vs 2x16 but from what seems like 80 plus percentage of benchmarks on gaming that 2x8 should be more than fine and worry about it later

[Derrk]

2 minutes ago, Icy Redeemer said:

only other thing i was concerned about was the difference between 2x8 vs 2x16

there wouldn't really be any performance difference in 2x8 vs 2x16 if it's just for gaming. you'd be fine with 2x8 since most modern AAA games won't use more than 10gb. 

 

if you do video editing, you'll benefit from having 2x16