Looking for recommendations on RAM and motherboard for 5600X.

[NorStereo]

Hello
I'm currently helping my 15 year old nephew to figure out what parts he needs for his upgrade, and need some help on deciding on RAM and motherboard.
 

Country: Norway, NOK.
Budget: Not sure, what he is able to save up depends on his patience. 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, probably Fortnite, CoD, Overwatch, etc.

Other details: I belive he is using a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with an RTX2060. Not sure about his current CPU and RAM, it's a second hand, might be Intel X99, or X99A something, waiting for him to verify what he has.

He has his eye on the 5600X and B550 motherboards.
The 5600X is currently at an all time low in price here at 2100NOK (201,94USD at time of writing).
For reference, currently 13600k is at 4095NOK, 12600k around 3000NOK, and in general Intel motherboards are priced fairly high here, as far as I have seen.

I've tried to narrow it down to the following:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk at 1849NOK or Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming at 1790NOK (both of these have been on sale intermittently, and I'm counting on them beeing agian, down to about 1200-1300NOK)

- RAM: Remembering all the back and forth about single rank and dual rank, and two or four modules, at launch of the CPU generation, I might have overloaded my brain with information.
  So I ended on the following: Single rank Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC at 900-1000NOK, or lower latency Single rank Ripjaws V CL14 3200MHz F4-3200C14D-16GVK at 1200-1400NOK.
Both of theese giving him the opportunity to maybe upgrade by buying an additional kit later for a full set of 4x8GB RAM.

If anyone has any other recommendations or combos, feel free to share them, and I'll have a look, thank you 

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

4 minutes ago, NorStereo said:

Hello
I'm currently helping my 15 year old nephew to figure out what parts he needs for his upgrade, and need some help on deciding on RAM and motherboard.
 

Country: Norway, NOK.
Budget: Not sure, what he is able to save up depends on his patience. 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, probably Fortnite, CoD, Overwatch, etc.

Other details: I belive he is using a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with an RTX2060. Not sure about his current CPU and RAM, it's a second hand, might be Intel X99, or X99A something, waiting for him to verify what he has.

He has his eye on the 5600X and B550 motherboards.
The 5600X is currently at an all time low in price here at 2100NOK (201,94USD at time of writing).
For reference, currently 13600k is at 4095NOK, 12600k around 3000NOK, and in general Intel motherboards are priced fairly high here, as far as I have seen.

I've tried to narrow it down to the following:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk at 1849NOK or Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming at 1790NOK (both of these have been on sale intermittently, and I'm counting on them beeing agian, down to about 1200-1300NOK)

- RAM: Remembering all the back and forth about single rank and dual rank, and two or four modules, at launch of the CPU generation, I might have overloaded my brain with information.
  So I ended on the following: Single rank Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC at 900-1000NOK, or lower latency Single rank Ripjaws V CL14 3200MHz F4-3200C14D-16GVK at 1200-1400NOK.
Both of theese giving him the opportunity to maybe upgrade by buying an additional kit later for a full set of 4x8GB RAM.

If anyone has any other recommendations or combos, feel free to share them, and I'll have a look, thank you 

Ripjaws doesn't play very well with Ryzen IIRC, I would go another route entirely. Both those boards are good options though.

[NorStereo]

3 minutes ago, ShawtyT30beTHICCC said:

Ripjaws doesn't play very well with Ryzen IIRC, I would go another route entirely. Both those boards are good options though.

As far as I've read theese should be fine, it was worse with Corsair.
I belive the memory was on the QVL list for both motherboards at the XMP/DOCP speed.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

4 minutes ago, NorStereo said:

As far as I've read theese should be fine, it was worse with Corsair.
I belive the memory was on the QVL list for both motherboards at the XMP/DOCP speed.

There's no non ripjaws options? 

[mr fobs]

19 minutes ago, ShawtyT30beTHICCC said:

Ripjaws doesn't play very well with Ryzen IIRC, I would go another route entirely. Both those boards are good options though.

I also disagree with this. I have used Ripjaws 3600 MHz CL16 with a few Ryzen builds I've done and they run great.

[Quickstrike]

34 minutes ago, ShawtyT30beTHICCC said:

Ripjaws doesn't play very well with Ryzen IIRC, I would go another route entirely. Both those boards are good options though.

I think you are using anecdotal evidence here, I've build 12+ Ryzen 1 to 3, All of them with Gskill ram sticks and they all run smoothly, unless you try to pair two kits.
I got ripjaws in my backup rig ATM and it's super stable.

[Deadpool2onBlu-Ray]

4 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

I think you are using anecdotal evidence here, I've build 12+ Ryzen 1 to 3, All of them with Gskill ram sticks and they all run smoothly, unless you try to pair two kits.
I got ripjaws in my backup rig ATM and it's super stable.

Not all gskill, just ripjaws. TridentZ neo and flarex are better for ryzen

[Quickstrike]

42 minutes ago, NorStereo said:

Hello
I'm currently helping my 15 year old nephew to figure out what parts he needs for his upgrade, and need some help on deciding on RAM and motherboard.
 

Country: Norway, NOK.
Budget: Not sure, what he is able to save up depends on his patience. 

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, probably Fortnite, CoD, Overwatch, etc.

Other details: I belive he is using a 1080p 144Hz monitor, with an RTX2060. Not sure about his current CPU and RAM, it's a second hand, might be Intel X99, or X99A something, waiting for him to verify what he has.

He has his eye on the 5600X and B550 motherboards.
The 5600X is currently at an all time low in price here at 2100NOK (201,94USD at time of writing).
For reference, currently 13600k is at 4095NOK, 12600k around 3000NOK, and in general Intel motherboards are priced fairly high here, as far as I have seen.

I've tried to narrow it down to the following:
- Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk at 1849NOK or Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming at 1790NOK (both of these have been on sale intermittently, and I'm counting on them beeing agian, down to about 1200-1300NOK)

- RAM: Remembering all the back and forth about single rank and dual rank, and two or four modules, at launch of the CPU generation, I might have overloaded my brain with information.
  So I ended on the following: Single rank Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC at 900-1000NOK, or lower latency Single rank Ripjaws V CL14 3200MHz F4-3200C14D-16GVK at 1200-1400NOK.
Both of theese giving him the opportunity to maybe upgrade by buying an additional kit later for a full set of 4x8GB RAM.

If anyone has any other recommendations or combos, feel free to share them, and I'll have a look, thank you 

Strix has better IO and build quality. However F sku doesn't have wireless so check if you can plug with a cable. 
You Should get two sticks of RAM to get dual channel speed, otherwise you'll leave a lot on the table. 

[NorStereo]

8 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

I think you are using anecdotal evidence here, I've build 12+ Ryzen 1 to 3, All of them with Gskill ram sticks and they all run smoothly, unless you try to pair two kits.
I got ripjaws in my backup rig ATM and it's super stable.

Would you not recommend pairing two identical 2x8GB kits of for example the Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC to achieve 32GB total? or am I misunderstanding?

[NorStereo]

6 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

Strix has better IO and build quality. However F sku doesn't have wireless so check if you can plug with a cable. 
You Should get two sticks of RAM to get dual channel speed, otherwise you'll leave a lot on the table. 

Yeah he has cabled connection, but having a lookout if a WiFi version goes on sale, just because it's nice to have.
It will offcourse be 2x8GB or 2x16GB, seems like he's interested in having 32GB total. So maybe buying two kits of 2x8GB to get 32GB total.

[Quickstrike]

9 minutes ago, NorStereo said:

Would you not recommend pairing two identical 2x8GB kits of for example the Ripjaws V CL16 3600MHz F4-3600C16D-16GVKC to achieve 32GB total? or am I misunderstanding?

I tried that, bought two identical kits 5 months apart and, while the pc worked, I couldn't activated DOCP.

Ended up getting two 2*16 (and paying a pretty penny for them)

That is anecdotal evidence. It works for some. But if it doesn't it get exepensive.

[mr fobs]

5 hours ago, ShawtyT30beTHICCC said:

Not all gskill, just ripjaws. TridentZ neo and flarex are better for ryzen

Well yea, but they are more than twice the price usually and not double the performance