Hello,
I currently have a 7800x3d and wanted to upgrade to better looking ram.
I found these two kits and was wondering if its possible to underclock a 7200MHz cl34 kit to 6400MHz cl26 or an even lower cl timing (26 is the lowest cl timing I see being sold so I am also curious if it can go lower).
My current ram kit is TEAMGROUP T-FORCE DELTA RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6400MHz CL32. I am able to get it to run stable at 6400mhz and cl30.
The two ram kits im looking at; I live in canada so its a canadian link to a canadian store.
I know alot of people will just tell me to buy the lower costing one and the preformance difference is marginal. But personally I feel like I can feel the diffence after increasing the speed from 6000 to 6400 and lowering the cl timing. Even if it is placebo I would still appreciate if people could tell me what kit would preform better between the two and if it was possible to underclock the 7200mhz cl34 kit to a 6400MHz cl26 or lower cl timing kit and would it preform the same compared to buying a stock 6400MHz cl26 or lower cl timing kit. So I can base my decision off of that information and factor in price to preformance in there. Thank You.
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i had gskill 7200mhz cl34, and now i have dominator titanium 7200mhz cl34, and I couldn’t stabilize both at 6400mhz cl28 at 1.5v, maybe you can at 1.6v but i don’t recommend it since the higher vdd is the higher instability.
so right now i’m running my corsair ram at 8000mhz cl34 at 1.55v vdd.
What I remember is every 200mhz is equal to 1 cl. So you can get 6400cl28 @1.4V they might do cl26 @1.6V
Whether you can run it at cl26 depends entirely on how much vdd you are willing to give and whether you can cool it.
Both are 16gbit hynix ics and the bin is likely not very different since 7200 cl 34 is only marginally lower latency than 6400 cl 32 and I’d assume it has a lot higher voltage set for that (I’d assume 1.35 for the 6400 kit and 1.45 for the 7200 kit)
You might need a bit less vdd for the same timings, especially if your current kit has rgb and the new one doesn’t, but that’s up to chance.
Tldr don’t buy a new kit, yours can do everything the other one can… Not to mention that cl 30 or 26 will not be noticable in real applications. (6000 to 6400 is a lot more difference than cl 30 to 26)
If you absolutely want to waste some money, get an actual good binned kit like 6000 cl 26 @1.4v or some of those 8000 cl <38 kits
Your current kit *should* be able to do that. At very least CL28.
I have a 7200 CL34 T-FORCE DELTA RGB 2×16 A-die kit and running it at 6200 CL26 1.61V, gdm on. My CPU can’t handle 6400 unfortunately.