8200 MT/s CL38 DDR5 memory.
Should I go for it for a 9800x3D build?
Do I need a specific motherboard for those?
Should I just underclock them or up the voltage a bit?
How do I know if they are single or dual-rank and who is the IC manufacturer?
I'm a newbie overclocker and it's kinda hard to get these types of info, if any of you could help me out a bit it would mean a lot to me!
thank you in advance
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The difference between 6000mhz @ CL26 and 8000+ @ 38 is literally 1 FPS in most games on that cpu.
Go with the cheaper one,
I really wouldn’t. You’ll be running in 1:2 mode @8000, assuming you can get it to work. A lot of times, a well tuned 6000 CL28 kit really is the best place to start.
6000 28-36-36-72 or similar is typically going to overclock well if you wanted to push the clocks in 1:1 to either 6200 or 6400 with tightened timings, depending on what your particular chip and board will handle.
Edit: u/benefit420 is right, I hadn’t thought about the latest CL26 kits. They’re really good.
Don’t bother going above 6000mt/s unless you’re on Intel. AMD just doesn’t see any tangible benefits from it and it’s a nightmare to tune. Just aim for the lowest CL timings. The CL26 and 28 sticks can get pretty spendy though.
When you understand *why* X3D is so strong for gaming you’ll understand why lower CAS latency can often be more beneficial than pure speed. Gaming doesn’t use tons of throughput like data heavy production applications, it needs millions of small quick access calls. 3D vcache is tiny relatively to DDR5, but cache has violently lower latency vs ram. Higher speed ram doesn’t make up for it’s higher latency when it comes to gaming. As you’re going for an X3D to begin with I’m going to guess you don’t care about production applications.