Ram Choice for 5950x

[notreallysure_butok]

Hello, community!

 

I've recently managed to snag a 5950x and am looking to  make a proper ram selection. My current kit is the G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 3800mhz C14 kit, and while I was okay with it, I started getting blue screens after a few hours. I ran memtes86+ only to find that there are tons of errors before the first cycle completes. I'm going to return these and now am looking for something else. My motherboard is a Asus Crosshair VIII Formula x570. It should support up to 4800mhz ram, but I want to make an informed decision before I go out and buy the first 4800mhz kit I see.

 

I've read that latency matters a lot, but I wanted to ask here in the community what I should consider to get the most out of this processor.. According to this site, it appears that the latency on the current kit is (more often than not) better than most 4800mhz kits I can find. Perhaps I'm missing something, and there's more to it than just raw latency for Ryzen.. This is my first AMD build in well over a decade and I really want to make the most of it. Can anyone share some advice to help me make a better informed decision? Thanks!

[mahyar]

try 3600mhz and see if it works

[notreallysure_butok]

Funnily enough, the kit I'm using does work in 3600 @CL14.. 0 errors and 4 passes of memtest. The only thing I can think about though is I can get a little better (in terms of timing) if I get a different kit... for slightly cheaper.

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, notreallysure_butok said:

Funnily enough, the kit I'm using does work in 3600 @CL14.. 0 errors and 4 passes of memtest. The only thing I can think about though is I can get a little better (in terms of timing) if I get a different kit... for slightly cheaper.

well the memory controller on ryzen 9 5950x is guaranteed to work upto 3200 mhz so no surprise

[RadiatingLight]

Keep in mind that AMD has promised that they will release a microcode update soon that will make it much easier to hit higher memory speeds (especially with 1:1 infinity fabric).

I'd run the kit at 3600Mhz for now, and then when the microcode update releases, try 3800Mhz again.

 

That RAM is great and there's not much room to upgrade TBH.

[notreallysure_butok]

27 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Keep in mind that AMD has promised that they will release a microcode update soon that will make it much easier to hit higher memory speeds (especially with 1:1 infinity fabric).

I'd run the kit at 3600Mhz for now, and then when the microcode update releases, try 3800Mhz again.

 

That RAM is great and there's not much room to upgrade TBH.

Thank you, I'll do just that  

[Jurrunio]

Max memory frequency tested is pretty meaningless on Ryzen, as long as it's high enough to allow 1:1 memory to IF ratio it's already good enough