Ryzen 5800XT - need opinion on RAM

[kwispy.womp]

Hi all, will I be able to run 4 sticks of 8gb 3600mhz ram for this CPU? or is that an overkill? 

[HoffmannMS]

6 minutes ago, kwispy.womp said:

Hi all, will I be able to run 4 sticks of 8gb 3600mhz ram for this CPU? or is that an overkill? 

It really depends on what you plan on  doing, but id say 32 gb is what i would recomend in 2025 .You might need more if you into video editing or something like that.

 

 

[RejZoR]

9 minutes ago, kwispy.womp said:

Hi all, will I be able to run 4 sticks of 8gb 3600mhz ram for this CPU? or is that an overkill? 

I'm running 4x16GB (total 64GB) because I run some "Ai" magic software to process huge images and it just eats RAM like mad. Had 2x16 and added another identical kit because of the workloads.

 

I'd personally recommend you go the route of 2x16GB instead of 4x8GB. 3600-3800 MHz is the sweetspot for Zen3. Look for lowest timings you can get for the best price. This way you have less burden on memory controller, 32GB is plenty for casual users and you still have upgrade path to 64GB if need ever happens as you'll have 2 empty slots available. 2x16GB DDR4 kits are fairly cheap these days if you don't go with bonkers speeds/timings which you don't need anyway as there is very little benefit compared to extra cost you'll have for that.

[kwispy.womp]

3 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

I'm running 4x16GB (total 64GB) because I run some "Ai" magic software to process huge images and it just eats RAM like mad. Had 2x16 and added another identical kit because of the workloads.

 

I'd personally recommend you go the route of 2x16GB instead of 4x8GB. 3600-3800 MHz is the sweetspot for Zen3. Look for lowest timings you can get for the best price. This way you have less burden on memory controller, 32GB is plenty for casual users and you still have upgrade path to 64GB if need ever happens as you'll have 2 empty slots available. 2x16GB DDR4 kits are fairly cheap these days if you don't go with bonkers speeds/timings which you don't need anyway as there is very little benefit compared to extra cost you'll have for that.

understood. thing is I have a standby set of 2x8gb 3600mhz and currently my pc has a set of 2x8gb 3200mhz.  wanna upgrade to 32gb coz I use a lot of excel and a lot of browser tabs for work. just torn if I should get another set of 3200 or 3600. 

I tried putting the 3600mhz before along with the 3200mhz and modified the speed in bios but causes too much crash on my pc haha 

[PDifolco]

38 minutes ago, kwispy.womp said:

understood. thing is I have a standby set of 2x8gb 3600mhz and currently my pc has a set of 2x8gb 3200mhz.  wanna upgrade to 32gb coz I use a lot of excel and a lot of browser tabs for work. just torn if I should get another set of 3200 or 3600. 

I tried putting the 3600mhz before along with the 3200mhz and modified the speed in bios but causes too much crash on my pc haha 

DDR4 RAM is cheap as dirt atm... So if you want to be sure to get max expo speed get 2x16GB 

If you can live with sub 3000MT speed then  add 2x8GB 

[RejZoR]

On 5/23/2025 at 7:16 PM, kwispy.womp said:

understood. thing is I have a standby set of 2x8gb 3600mhz and currently my pc has a set of 2x8gb 3200mhz.  wanna upgrade to 32gb coz I use a lot of excel and a lot of browser tabs for work. just torn if I should get another set of 3200 or 3600. 

I tried putting the 3600mhz before along with the 3200mhz and modified the speed in bios but causes too much crash on my pc haha 

When mixing RAM, it will run at the speeds of the worst memory in your system, so 3200 MHz. Technically, it's always better having more of slower RAM than not enough of very fast RAM (because more of slow RAM is still faster than anything when system is swapping memory to SSD/HDD). It'll be better, but you will lose some performance across the board. If that's just office tools and browser, it should be negligible speed wise if that means you can have more tabs and more documents open at any given time.