How do I choose ram for Ryzen?

[BillyButcheek]

Budget (including currency): 87usd

Country: us

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: cod

 

I want to buy a Ryzen 5 1600x, but i do not know what ram to buy. I also want to upgrade to a Ryzen 5 3600x. The specs for the 1600x say the max speed is 2667 but for the 3600x says 3200, so can I buy 3200 speed and use it for both? what ram do you suggest?

[Pixelfie]

You can buy any 3200 stick. It will lock itself to 2667 for the 1600x, but when you upgrade to 3600x it will go up to 3200. I have HyperX Fury 16gb 2x8 3200, so far they have been great! Honestly, I'd recommend picking up whatever has the best price & warranty for you. For 87 you're likely gonna get 3200 16gb.

[AnirbanG007]

4 hours ago, BillyButcheek said:

Budget (including currency): 87usd

Country: us

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: cod

 

I want to buy a Ryzen 5 1600x, but i do not know what ram to buy. I also want to upgrade to a Ryzen 5 3600x. The specs for the 1600x say the max speed is 2667 but for the 3600x says 3200, so can I buy 3200 speed and use it for both? what ram do you suggest?

Instead of buying a 1600x and then upgrading to a 3600x, you could buy a 1600AF which is basically a 2600. I'm not up to speed with the ram speeds supported by ryzen 2nd gen, but you could probably buy a 3000/3200 Mhz RAM.

 

Edit: I wasn't aware of US pricings. Just buy whatever you have to, it'd be better to just get a 3600 with a b550/450 now.

Edited March 2, 2021 by AnirbanG007

[_Velociraptor_]

Yeah I’m planning to upgrade my cpu to the ryzen 5 3600x to but  I have ram that is pretty good it’s teamgroup t-force 3200hz 16gb kit 2x8 and trust me it’s impossible to find a single teamgroup t-force 3200hz 8gb stick.

[Nathanpete]

22 minutes ago, AnirbanG007 said:

Instead of buying a 1600x and then upgrading to a 3600x, you could buy a 1600AF which is basically a 2600. I'm not up to speed with the ram speeds supported by ryzen 2nd gen, but you could probably buy a 3000/3200 Mhz RAM.

Good luck finding a 1600 AF for what it used to sell for. It was a year ago that the hype for the CPU was high, and they haven't done another drop of it in a long while, if ever again. I went looking on ebay and they were all going for $160 and up. I ended up just buying a R5 3600 and a B550 board (incompatible with Zen/Zen+) at Best Buy because both were at MSRP. 

[BillyButcheek]

4 hours ago, AnirbanG007 said:

Instead of buying a 1600x and then upgrading to a 3600x, you could buy a 1600AF which is basically a 2600. I'm not up to speed with the ram speeds supported by ryzen 2nd gen, but you could probably buy a 3000/3200 Mhz RAM.

those don't even exist under 100 usd

[BillyButcheek]

@AnirbanG007 The 1600af is worse than the 1600x all around aswell

[Guest]

2 hours ago, BillyButcheek said:

The 1600af is worse than the 1600x all around aswell

Where you getting that info from ?

[BillyButcheek]

On 3/2/2021 at 5:55 PM, lee32uk said:

Where you getting that info from ?

The specs posted from amd themselves. it has only wins in the fact that is tdp is lower but my power supluy is 200 wats overkill so im fine for everything.

[freeagent]

For me I just picked a mobo I wanted to buy. Then I checked its QVL against some ram I was interested in. Then I checked its QVL against the mobo I wanted. Everything matched up and that's what I bought. Its been awesome. No problems, overclocks like crazy. Excellent. Personally, I am glad I chose the components I did, because it rips and is stable AF.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, BillyButcheek said:

The specs posted from amd themselves. it has only wins in the fact that is tdp is lower but my power supluy is 200 wats overkill so im fine for everything.

Not sure what you mean by the specs posted by AMD. If you mean clock speed then that is irrelevant. The 1600AF is an R5 2600 in all but name. There might not be a huge difference, but the 1600AF will have a slight advantage in most games.

[BillyButcheek]

On 3/5/2021 at 11:15 AM, lee32uk said:

Not sure what you mean by the specs posted by AMD. If you mean clock speed then that is irrelevant. The 1600AF is an R5 2600 in all but name. There might not be a huge difference, but the 1600AF will have a slight advantage in most games.

I meant I went to AMD's spec sheet and there was no difference other then wattage. I don't understand why you would want to miss out on so many MHZ on your CPU either.