Is it worth spending $60 more on RAM to get 3600MHz instead of 3000MHz?

Is it worth spending $60 more on RAM to get 3600MHz instead of 3000MHz?

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Assuming you have Ryzen, get 3200 sticks.

No, get the 3000, OC to 3200, spend $60 on a bag of weed.

Ram speed doesn't matter for anything.

I'm still rocking 1600mhz and play all games at ultra 1440p

DUDE

no. 667mhz ddr2 master race.

Yeah Ryzen, why not 3600 if its only $30 more?

3000 to 3200 is less than 5% in most games

You won't hit 3600 on anything besides top mobos like Crosshair.

No not really.
Buying more ram will have a much bigger impact than the 3-5% you get from the different clock speeds

If you do rendering, the extra bandwidth can shave off a few hours.

Only:
Asus Crosshair
Gigabyte K7
and AsRock Taichi
can hit 3600 reliably (MSI Titanium should but it's flaky)

3200 is the highest multiplier for memory with AGESA 1.0.0.6, The above boards have an external clockgen to raise BCLK.

Ryzen gets far more perofrmance from higher clocked memory than Intel (as the infinity fabric is directly tied to memory speed, where on Intel they're decoupled, you're getting maximum throughput on the bingbus even at 2133)

Wut?
1.0.0.6 supports up to 4000mhz XMP profiles.
But you'll hit 3600 tops even on top boards.

>spend $60 more
>get a whooping 1.5 FPS increase across the board
Wew lad, just don't forget to get 32 GB for maximum performance since downloading RAM doesn't work anymore.

On Intel, yes, that's the case.
On AMD, it's substantially more.

Effectively, it's a hidden cost in Ryzen, you need expensive memory to get the best performance where on Intel basically any old DDR4 will do.

I'm looking at an ASUS ROG Strix B350-F Motherboard it lists 3200(OC) does that mean I need to OC my 1600 to use my RAM at 3200?

Even with Ryzen, you start getting diminishing returns after 2666MHz.

'officially' Ryzen only supports 2666, so 'yes'.
Official support means bugger all though.

Same with KabyLake-X, it's only 'officially' 2666, but it supports far higher frequencies.

anandtech.com/show/11447/amd-announces-ryzen-agesa-1006-update
How autistic are you?

OK fella.

AMD lists the parts as supporting DDR-4 266 as the official maximum speed, that doesn't mean it is the maximum speed...

Yes, of course. If you exclude the part where you have to buy a $200 mobo with Intel's new X299 shitset.

X299 vs X399 prices are the same here...
Intel you pay a CPU premium
AMD you pay a memory premium