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Well that was fun. One of my sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 just nuked itself on stream.
Good job I speak BIOS beep. Now limping along on a single stick.
What DDR4 are the non-cool kids buying these days?
(EDIT: I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X on a Prime X570-P for reference)
(Because the cool kids mostly prefer shiny to good)
@garius I've always been a fan of Crucial ram.
I tried Corsair Vengence in my work laptop and it just didn't work. Wouldn't boot. Switched to Crucial and it was fine.
@danieldurrans i'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X on a Prime X570-P
@garius What size kit are you looking for? 16gb (2x 8gb), 32gb (2x 16gb), 64gb (2x 32gb)?
Some solid alternatives to Corsair: Crucial, Kingston/Fury, G.skill.
If the price isn't wildly higher, I would recommend shopping for 3600mhz or higher RAM. That allows various RAM and CPU timings to operate at a 1:1 matched rate with the 3800x instead of off-sync which introduces (a tiny amount of) additional latency.
@garius "Whatever Crucial say will work" has yet to steer me wrong. I got a bad stick once but they replaced it as soon as I mentioned memtest86.
@garius I'm an ageing cynic, but if a Corsair stick went bang in an Asus board I'd be seriously wary of buying a shiny new stick of anything to repopulate that slot.
@garius Kingston or Crucial are solid alternatives. 3200mhz or 3600mhz for Ryzen - speed matters more than timings. Could be the universe nudging you toward a whole new rig tho...
@garius I've just been running Vengeance for the past 10 years. No plan to change. I've built at least 4 computers with those sticks in it
I've been using Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM for the last few years and have had no real complaints other than that I had to get RGB in the first place because that's all that was available at the time.
of course it's still not that cheap, since I only run ECC ram
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@garius you’re under warranty.
@directhex yeah, but then i have to find the paperwork...
@garius I've always bought RAM from Crucial.
@garius I'm running Corsair Vengeance LPX with a Ryzen 5 5600G on a MSI B550M PRO-VDH, so close-ish. But anything with less obvious specs I use the Crucial compatibility tool, and it's always worked so far. But you may be better exactly matching the stick you have left if your motherboard can do whatever dual bus thingies are around now.
@derryh yeah, i'm running the crucial tool to see what it comes back with.
worst case i'll just go Corsair again
@garius It really depends on what your motherboard supports and whether speed or size is more important. Once you define those parameters then the options kinda narrow themselves down pretty quickly.
@zalasur i'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X on a Prime X570-P
@garius Mine is a Ryzen 7 3800X on an ASRock x570 Pro4. The RAM I got with that is listed as "Crucial 32GB 16x2 D4 3200 C16BSLT". It was the fastest RAM I could buy at the time to get me up to 64 GB. I had the option to go up to 128 GB (2 64 GB sticks) but I would have taken a huge hit on performance.
This was like 4 years ago so I imagine there have been updates to the available models.