What DDR5 ram to pick - no clue what to look for

[Alexaldin]

Budget (including currency): 100€ more or less

Country: Italy

Use: Gaming

Combo: i5 13400 + Asus TUF Gaming H770-Pro WiFi DDR5

 

Hello everyone, I need to pick the Ram for my next build, budget of 100€ more or less. The use will be gaming at 1080p, nothing too extreme. I thought of buying 16gb, 2 sticks of 8gb, but I never used DDR5 and I have no idea what to look for.

I'm buying everything on one italian online shop.

Ram DIMM DDR5 16GB Kingston 5200MHz CL40

Ram DIMM DDR5 16GB Kingston Fury Beast Black 5600MT/s CL38

 

Between these two, the 5600 are better right? Are there any better "budget" ram kits?

Thank you for your help!

[Hinjima]

15 minutes ago, Alexaldin said:

Budget (including currency): 100€ more or less

Country: Italy

Use: Gaming

Combo: i5 13400 + Asus TUF Gaming H770-Pro WiFi DDR5

 

Hello everyone, I need to pick the Ram for my next build, budget of 100€ more or less. The use will be gaming at 1080p, nothing too extreme. I thought of buying 16gb, 2 sticks of 8gb, but I never used DDR5 and I have no idea what to look for.

I'm buying everything on one italian online shop.

Ram DIMM DDR5 16GB Kingston 5200MHz CL40

Ram DIMM DDR5 16GB Kingston Fury Beast Black 5600MT/s CL38

 

Between these two, the 5600 are better right? Are there any better "budget" ram kits?

Thank you for your help!

5600mhz / cl38 is faster than the 5200mhz CL40.  The mhz is the speed, the CL is the timing.  In general you want as fast MHZ as possible with the lowest CL ( timing )
Use this website to check the part number on RAM vs the motherboards RAM compatability list to be sure you get RAM that works with your motherboard. 5600mhz CL38 / CL36 is a nice middle ground. I use 5600mhz CL36 with my 7700x.  You need to manually enable XMP in the BIOS so the ram runs at 5600, out of the box it will run at 4800mhz.  This might have been a bit confusing so if you have any questions please ask!
https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-h770-pro-wifi/helpdesk_qvl_memory/?model2Name=TUF-GAMING-H770-PRO-WIFI
 

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Between those two, yeah the 5600 is better. 

 

That said, with DDR5 you really want to be going for the 2x16GB configurations, otherwise it actually makes more sense to stick to DDR4 instead. 2x8GB DIMMs have much less bandwidth available to them since they're organized worse, so even a significantly lower clocked 2x16GB kit will perform better. Looking through that site, one of these two kits would be what I'd get depending on how much you can spend. 

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/memorie/ram-dimm-ddr5-32gb-b1970496

https://www.bpm-power.com/it/online/componenti-pc/memorie/ram-dimm-ddr5-32gb-b2014679

 

The second kit is the better of the two. 

[Alexaldin]

Thank you both, you've been of really great help! I think I'm gonna spend a bit more and go with the 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 5600MHz, so I'm good for a bit. Thank you!

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, Alexaldin said:

Thank you both, you've been of really great help! I think I'm gonna spend a bit more and go with the 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 5600MHz, so I'm good for a bit. Thank you!

No worries, sounds good! I myself use the same RAM in my system and I have had no problems at all.