Hi Juraj - just out of curiosity: Why not go with the G Skill Neo 3600 16/19/19 16gb chips? Is the 18 vs 19 timings the deciding issue and impacts things more than the 400mhz difference? Or are you looking for 32gb chips?
Just curious if I made the right call in my build or if the difference should be negligible.
I have my doubts that 3600 CL16 would be stable if you populate all DIMM slots :- ). Technically the platform supports up to 4666 MT/s overclock, but the higher the lanes utilization, memory ranks, memory capacity, etc.. contribute to overall stress load on memory controller and the guaranteed stable speed gets lowered.
This speed should be 3200 for 8x16GB or 8x32GB. Interestingly, 8x16 is officially only 2666 but we know 2933 is stable, while 4x32 is 3200 officially, so theoretically 4x32 could run at 3600, but someone would have to test that. But 8x 32GB will definitely stop at 3200, if it was stable, someone would sell that kind of kit, but fastest available 8x32 GB kits are 3200 so that tells us something.
I am already set on 256GB ram, 128 GB has been serving me really well (and I am able to utilize it 90perc. ) and since I plan to use this PC for next few years hopefully I would like to have some future proofing.
Also, I remember how I paid 750 Euros for 64GB of memory in October 2018, only to buy another 64GB kit for 300 Euros year later. The peak memory prices were painful, and they will be painful again. I am not waiting for them to rise up.
18 vs 19 will btw internally become 18 vs 20 because Zen architecture by default prefer "Gear down mode" in Bios, it makes for more stable memory but will round up timings to the nearest even integer value. But those secondary timings aren't that crucial anyway, I would never waste time in bios playing around with them only to have my PC crash few days later, this is hobby for Reddit dwarves :- ).
You can test it btw ;- ) Buy another kit, you can always return it :- ).
« Last Edit: 2020-01-13, 23:50:59 by Juraj Talcik »
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