Which ram kit is better?

[damian61]

My colleague was upgrading his ram kit, and gave his old one to me to keep it or sell it. I had a crucial ballistix 3200mhz kit, but I read it that 3600mhz is the sweetspot for Ryzen 5000 cpus. Shall I replace my current kit? or its not worth it. Speed is higher but timings are less tight

 

Crucial kit timings

16-18-18-36

Corsair kit timings:

18-22-22-42

 

(other specs are Ryzen 5 5600, rx 6600, tuf b550m plus)

[Tan3l6]

Lower timings are better.

Higher speeds are better.

 

But 3200MT/s 16-18-18-36 vs 3600MT/s 18-22-22-42 I believe latter is better.

 

I personally try to overclock and lower timings if possible, a bit tedious task, but gets a marginally better performance.

[Dedayog]

5 minutes ago, damian61 said:

My colleague was upgrading his ram kit, and gave his old one to me to keep it or sell it. I had a crucial ballistix 3200mhz kit, but I read it that 3600mhz is the sweetspot for Ryzen 5000 cpus. Shall I replace my current kit? or its not worth it. Speed is higher but timings are less tight

 

Crucial kit timings

16-18-18-36

Corsair kit timings:

18-22-22-42

 

(other specs are Ryzen 5 5600, rx 6600, tuf b550m plus)

3600CL18 is very slightly better than 3200CL16 but for all intents and purposes are the same.   The ratios are the same, and like said above... speed is better on one, quickness (timings) better on other.

 

I woud use the 3600 unless you like the look of the Crucial better.  Yes they're that close that aesthetics wins here.

[Fasauceome]

The Corsair are RGB so they're faster. Pretty gamer lights.

[RONOTHAN##]

I mean, if you have both kits, you might as well test them to see which is faster. 

 

Practically though, you won't see enough of a difference to care. The 3600 CL18 setup should be a little faster thanks to the higher FCLK and roughly equal timing values, though since the single CCD Ryzen 5000 CPUs like yours aren't really FCLK or memory bottlenecked in most situations, it's a very small difference. There might be some nuance if one kit is dual rank and the other is single rank (you should be able to tell by looking at the sticks and seeing if there's memory chips on both sides of the stick, though you can also somewhat tell by the label) since dual rank is effectively worth 400MT/s of memory speed at the same timing values, so if one of the kits is dual rank and the other isn't, the dual rank kit is likely faster. 

 

Also, another thing to know is that Crucial kit will overclock very well and should do settings like 3800 CL16 without too much fuss and should be the faster of the two. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

33 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Also, another thing to know is that Crucial kit will overclock very well and should do settings like 3800 CL16 without too much fuss and should be the faster of the two. 

^^^

 

As for the corsair kit send a thaiphoon burner pic, if it happens to be micron based you can combine the two kits and have basically no compatibility issues due to having the same ic

 

You can also just resell the corsair kit

[damian61]

30 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

^^^

 

As for the corsair kit send a thaiphoon burner pic, if it happens to be micron based you can combine the two kits and have basically no compatibility issues due to having the same ic

 

You can also just resell the corsair kit

I tried to read it with thaiphoon burner, but the program stops responding after 3-5% of reading. is that normal ? 

[damian61]

Looks like both are micron e-die kits

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

8 minutes ago, damian61 said:

Looks like both are micron e-die kits

 

In that case you can just run both kits and have no worries regarding compatibility

 

If you wanna squeeze abit of extra performance you can run at 3800-4000 or whatever your fclk maxes out at