Good price for this kit of ram right now on Amazon, i bought this for $458 two weeks ago (don't worry i got a refund for the price difference haha)
https://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Z5+RGB+640…
Local price seems to be about $490 excluding the stores that are out of stock without preorder.
CamelCamelCamel.
You do if your motherboard only supports DDR4 ram.
More specifically from OP's reply, DDR4 and DDR5 are never compatible as they have a different input notch and the physical pins are mapped differently. There are almost no motherboards with both DDR4 and DDR5 slots albeit a few shitty no name boards.
Yes, some mobo only supports up to 5600mhz for 2 rams despite it's ddr5 board. better check specs individually
Good price. Actually thinking about building a new PC but have not decided which platform to go. Does this ram support Ryzen AM5 platform as well?
Will there be any better deals on Black Friday?
1) Zen 4 doesn't officially support XMP profiles, but the motherboard manufacturers all build it into their chipsets so it will work. But it works better with EXPO certified memory - if you care about compatibility, reliability, and efficiency, you will stick with EXPO RAM.
2) No one can tell you if there will be better deals on Black Friday unless they know what all the retailers are intending to discount in the future. It's a good bet there will be some deals, but do remember EXPO certified memory is brand new and both manufacturers and retailers are intending to ride high on fat early adopter margins for at least a few months, so I really wouldn't expect to see too much slashed off the latest Ryzen 7000 series compatible RAM kits in the next couple of weeks. Black Friday 2023 will be a different story ;-)
Adding to the above, AMD says the sweet spot for memory when using ryzen 7000 series is DDR5 6000. Above that speed the system will actually lose performance
Looking for EXPO, seems the fastest that's currently going to is 6000MHz although CL30. Gonna wait a few weeks to see if this comes down, otherwise will just bite the bullet shrugs
https://www.amazon.com.au/G-Skill-Trident-288-Pin-CL30-40-40…
Whoa $800 is kinda nuts for RAM. This is only $369 and on Kingston's website it confirms EXPO support https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/memory/ddr5/99315-kf560c…
Thanks mate, but that's CL36, not CL30 - getting modules that can stably and reliably run at extremely tight tolerances is expensive 'cause they're rare and hard to make, therefore they're binned differently (and manufacturers pay a hefty premium for access to them). It's horses for courses though :-)
Your example is also only half the capacity - the one I mentioned is 64GB (2x 32GB), yours is only 2x 16GB, so honestly the price difference is pretty marginal.
How can the speed be 6400 MHz? Wikipedia says that DDR5 runs at 2400–3600 MHz ?
Memory speeds are advertised in "megatransfers" per second, or MT/s. But their clock speed in MHz is only half that number—DDR5-5200 is running at 2,600 MHz, DDR5-6000 is running at 3,000 MHz
So title should be fixed then.
No. This is just how it’s done with all RAM - not just DDR5
DDR stands for "double data rate" so 2400-3600 mhz would be 4800-7200 MT/s. As for why it's listed as 6400mhz instead of MT/s despite being technically incorrect, it's just been the standard marketting/pc lingo since forever now.
Is this Hynix A-die?
I believe this program will tell you if a visual inspection won't.
What makes this better than https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/736946 ?
Speed only? Curious to know thoughts - both claim 10ns first word latency.
That link isn't 10ns
https://notkyon.moe/ram-latency2.htm
Enter both ram into this calc to compare.
Also RGB if your into that haha
Are most 12-13 gen motherboards compatible with this?
Hey OZBers, two asks:
In general has anyone seen any good deals on DDR5 SODIMM (laptop) memory in 16x2 (32GB)?
I'm trying to work out the best way to monitor prices of the same memory kit configuration but over many brands (Corsair, Crucial, etc) from different websites (staticice for local vendors, amazon, ebay). Does anyone have a good suggestion of how to co-ordinate this? Was thinking to write a Google Sheet script for eg.
This is 73 cents cheaper at Newegg. https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr…
Also anyone interested in overclocking this RAM should have a look at this article.
https://www.igorslab.de/en/ryzen-7000-tuning-guide-infinity-…
Do you need a new motherboard for this?