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37 minutes ago, martin-baker-1998 said:

Finally, am I correct that this will work: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600MHz 3600MT/s

You should be able to get 2x32GB running at 3600MT/s speeds on a 5800x. If it has trouble, running the kit at 3200MT/s should work fine.

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Hi,

I currently have a AMD 4600G, 16GB and Gigabyte B550M DS3H.

I want to upgrade the CPU/RAM.

Am I correct that the 5800x is compatible, as is DDR4 4600 ram.

Do any difference exist if I go 2x32g or 4x16gb?

The ram confuses me as I find little on Amazon in the UK 64G at 4600. Maybe I am missing something! 🤔

Thanks
Martin

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8 minutes ago, martin-baker-1998 said:

Hi,

I currently have a AMD 4600G, 16GB and Gigabyte B550M DS3H.

I want to upgrade the CPU/RAM.

Am I correct that the 5800x is compatible, as is DDR4 4600 ram.

Do any difference exist if I go 2x32g or 4x16gb?

The ram confuses me as I find little on Amazon in the UK 64G at 4600. Maybe I am missing something! 🤔

Thanks
Martin

Correct, the 5800x will work in the motherboard if you have BIOS version F10 or later.

What do you need that much RAM for?

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14 minutes ago, martin-baker-1998 said:

The ram confuses me as I find little on Amazon in the UK 64G at 4600

Try searching for 3600 instead.

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Even if the motherboard has a DDR4-4600 setting, there's no way the R7 5800X will be able to run that at a 1:1 ratio. Just being able to run DDR4-4000 at 1:1 is already considered winning the silicon lottery. Beyond that point is almost unheard of.

 

Are you doing something very memory bandwidth sensitive where you can run it at a 2:1 ratio and still get a noticeable performance uplift?

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I have a NodeJS script that loads large number of JSON files from disk to use as an in memory cache.

So I do need 64GB!

I now see that the slower memory is more widely available.

Finally, am I correct that this will work: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600MHz 3600MT/s

Thanks

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37 minutes ago, martin-baker-1998 said:

Finally, am I correct that this will work: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 64GB (2x32GB) DDR4 3600MHz 3600MT/s

You should be able to get 2x32GB running at 3600MT/s speeds on a 5800x. If it has trouble, running the kit at 3200MT/s should work fine.

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