Help picking ram

[Apple50000]

I am gonna build a new pc for the new 30 series and amd CPUs and wanted to know what would the best ram to get?

 

Corsair or G Skill -

 

G.Skill Trident Z RGB Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin SDRAM PC4-28800 DDR4 3600 CL18-22-22-42 1.35V Dual Channel Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C18D-16GTZR

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Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4-28800) C18 AMD Optimized Memory – Black

 

Which one would be better?

[FavoringWinter]

I would go with G skill Ripjaws V 3600 cl16. I have it, works well I have heard it does not oc well, and no rgb. It is cheap as well

[Apple50000]

1 minute ago, Hackerman25 said:

I would go with G skill Ripjaws V 3600 cl16. I have it, works well I have heard it does not oc well, and no rgb. It is cheap as well

Do you have a link to them and are they on amazon?

[bellabichon]

You should always try to find a kit with a CAS latency of 16 or lower. A 3200 CL16 kit is often faster than a 3600 CL18 kit. Something like this would work well. 

[Apple50000]

1 minute ago, bellabichon said:

You should always try to find a kit with a CAS latency of 16 or lower. A 3200 CL16 kit is often faster than a 3600 CL18 kit. Something like this would work well. 

Cant you change the timing or something in the bios? Sorry still new to pc. 

[FavoringWinter]

7 minutes ago, Apple50000 said:

Do you have a link to them and are they on amazon?

This is the kit I was talking about ↓

2 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

You should always try to find a kit with a CAS latency of 16 or lower. A 3200 CL16 kit is often faster than a 3600 CL18 kit. Something like this would work well. 

 

[bellabichon]

Just now, Apple50000 said:

Cant you change the timing or something in the bios? Sorry still new to pc. 

CAS Latency (CL) is usually represented by the first number in your RAM's timings, but it exists at the hardware level, so it can't be changed or optimized in BIOS. It's pretty similar to gray-to-gray response time in a monitor, in that more latency is always worse for your system.

[Apple50000]

17 minutes ago, bellabichon said:

CAS Latency (CL) is usually represented by the first number in your RAM's timings, but it exists at the hardware level, so it can't be changed or optimized in BIOS. It's pretty similar to gray-to-gray response time in a monitor, in that more latency is always worse for your system.

Understood thanks, I will check out the rip jaws kit.

[RaphaNadal]

Be careful - I swapped out G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200 MHz CL16 RAM for Ripjaws V 3600 MHz CL16 RAM. Check the QVL for your RAM\Motherboard combination to make sure you are good to go. I didn't. 

 

I run R7 3700X on B550 Gigabyte Aorus Pro, and the 3600 MHz RAM is causing the system to go into a boot loop. I didn't have this issue with 3200 MHz RAM. 

 

Limited run of Memtest is revealing zero issues (21\21 tests passed). I'm willing to let Memtest run for 7-8 hours overnight, but I think the RAM itself is fine, it's just not compatible with R7 3700X\B550 Aorus Pro combination.

 

Really bummed that I will have to go back to the store and return RAM for a second time.