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If you have swap file turned off or lowered to minimum then all of them. Not everyone uses PC like you do ;)

Complete nonsense. None of those games need more than 16GB of RAM (or even that much really). I don't know of any game that does. Of course, how much RAM you need will vary based on how much crap you have running in the background. Any normal user looking to play games is going to struggle to fill up even 16GB though.

Not even remotely true. Most games barely use 10gb, as long as you don't have a bunch of rubbish running in the background.

You’ll be fine on any of the latest games with 16gb RAM. 32gb only really needed for photo and video editing etc. No harm in future proofing though.

Try to put one stick and boot and then add second one.

£67.96 delivered, so not really :)

Cheaper at eBuyer

in my experience, your computer will always find a way of eating all your RAM :P maybe it's just my behaviour that changes, but I can't imagine having less than 24GB RAM in my laptop (8GB soldered, 16GB module... considering replacing with 32GB module) and 64GB RAM in my desktop

Also, 32 is a good upgrade for heavy photo and video editing, especially multitasking. The difference in price isn't as much compared to the multitasking gain

No you got me wrong, I meant get 2 sticks (2x8gb) instead of 1x16gb (1 stick of 16gb) as the performance difference between two sticks and one (even with the same amount of RAM) is huge

This was the logic I applied in buying the 3600 & a 212 instead of the 3600X.

Litterally didnt read what i said. I said its fine and i would not of changed it. (y) All your comments are very negative with hardly any context, cheer up pal.

The pro vdh max is a better board

Thank you so much for your help! I was personally looking at this MB, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07W838JXD/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_X9K0EbB47E8XS I have that SSD already (y) . I thought maybe a cheaper PSU? PSU supply is very limited at the moment. Nice case! I was thinking of building into an ITX case but they are much more for the small size factor

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/qRdWTC

Really sorry, I don't know why is it happening. It's 2 redemptions, should've gone through. :)

Cheers! Tried on phone, tablet and PC. Must not like my account. :-( Just bought for £79.99. :-)

it is still working for me, not sure what's wrong but try typing code or change to phone or laptop might work :

Voucher code is denied for me. Can anyone confirm if it is still working

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How much voltage are you pushing into yours? I used the DRAM calculator and just tightened/loosened some timing until Memtest ran error free. I'm sure I can tweak some of those numbers.

Those are some interesting numbers. Firstly, your R/W and latency figures look considerably better than mine (which I assume is down to Ryzen 3000's chiplet architecture), but your timings actually look very very slack. How did you arrive at those numbers? IIRC, I'm running mine stable & memtest'ed at 3800 16-19-12-32 on an X570 + 3800x system. I do have a fan on my DIMMs, which may help.

lol i dont think math is the problem...see what i did there...but seriously overclocking in my time there was no GOOGLE or YAHOO or atleast not millions of pages dedicated to that topic...1:1 ratio was always considered to be most stable. dont understand why that is not valid anymore. infinity fabric essentially is AMDs FSB and having a stable 1:1 ratio between the fabric clock and mem clock is logical? all that apart you must have excellent luck getting a b450 board which supports 3800mhz ram and a 3200mhz ram kit capable of 20% overclock with relative tight timings and stable! you should run that memtest...

FSB on Ryzen is 100Mhz and Memory clocked to 3800Mhz (1900Mhz effectively). So, that translates to 100:1900 Which would be the same as 1:19 (3:57) 1x3=3 19x3=57 So the FSB (100) to Memory (1900) ratio would be 57:3 Primary school maths really.. (y) For your other requests there's google.

what is that FSB DRAM ratio reading? care to explain? have you run an overnight memtest?

Just purchased. Best price out there at present for speed and timings. Just need an ITX motherboard now....

Same goes for the tomahawk max, but it works just fine.

Is anyone running these on X570 Prime Pro board? According to their compatibility thing, it says it isn't supported. (confused)

Nice! Just waiting for a good B550 board for a new build. Extended timings for those interested - 16-18-18-38

Running these on a tomahawk max & 3700x. Run great!

That does sound like something even I can do. Thanks a lot 😄

That's some fancy RAM! I like it :) Setting the XMP so your ram runs as 3200mhz is dead simple. Boot into the BIO (likely Delete key on startup). Look for something that says RAM Profile and select XMP 2.0. Save and close :). Don't worry about the calculator I mentioned, save that for a later when you want to gain a few extra BHP!

Aha yeah. Here are the sticks which I ordered Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 Enthusiast RGB LED Illuminated Memory Kit - White https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D5RBR2P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_TvJZEbQTTZM01 The other bits which you said are currently too technical for me. I'll just learn each part as I go. I only want it for PC specific games and at least as good as a PS4. But I assume on its worst settings it'll be better than a PS4.

That's a good as any reason! TBH, as long as the ones you got are 3200mhz and don't have a massive CAS latency (smaller number the better) they will be perfectly fine :). Don't forget to enable the XMP profile for the RAM in your bios as else they won't run at the advertised speed. If you want to tinker, and went AMD, download the Ryzen RAM overclock calculater, it will give you some recommended numbers to use with over clocking :).

I have just ordered all the parts for my first gaming PC. I sense wanting the best and always wanting to improve things is a slippery slope in this hobby. I went for four Corsair 8Gb's only because they're white and light up.

The handy thing about ryzen chips is they come with the thermal paste already on the cooler and you're ready to go. This comment is not really directed at you just the casual reader who is on the fence about building one. Another thing you can do by the way is buy small reusable heat transfer mats which do as good a job as thermal paste pretty much and the advantage is that you can attach your cooler and take it apart as many times as you like without spreading paste around and worrying about that crap. All the best.

This conversation suddenly got a whole lot more balanced. All it took was a couple of people coming along with their own opinions to add to it. If you want a job done right etc etc The only reason to pay someone to do it is for convenience. Bare in mind they are not some expert they are just a normal person like anyone else and prone to human error.

I got a pre built system (not this company) about 5 years ago because it was working out a little cheaper. A couple of issues - they put the nasty blower style gpu in. The noise was so irritating that I had to swap to an aftermarket cooler. So check exactly what they are going to give you. Secondly and more importantly the CPU kept over heating and I didn't know why. After loads of troubleshooting I realised they hadn't seated the cpu cooler properly, it was tilted so that only a small part of the cooler was in direct contact. After all the fuss it would have been better for me just to do it myself. FYI the worst part of the build for me is adding the coolers! You not only need to use thermal paste but it's the part that requires the most forces.

You over estimate many people's abilities and intelligence. Voila, Brexit.

most folks fear the cpu into the MB, which is one of the easiest things to do, but at the same time, IF something does go wrong, it can also be one of the most expensive and thats from user feedback, so a good option of them with this fear is the combo packages, which sometimes can be a little advantage occasional to get one and at cost, most times it isnt, nothing decent in this area atm, but will need to recheck, use to be some positive ones, but then it went sour half way though lockdown. if i had to list the most hardest part in order of easy to hardest in regards to doing it for myself and ive built tons of systems, some folks would say cable management but thats a challenge i enjoy (yeah im weird..).. for me its prob the mb to case, ive gone though that many cases, and the same bleeding cases over n over ! cant they get the screw holes lined up bloody right at times!. thats prob the most bit i hate, that thought, is this specific case going to go sweet as the last one or going to be a biatch cos some baboon has knocked the machine what predrills it lol.. that person prob worked for MFI what keeps haunting me occasional lol..

Just received my 4,400 “WOW Points”, basically £44 cash back. Nice!

When you say average specs, and price should be around 300, can u give example of decent specs for around 350-400?. I need laptop for my son (11). I was bit before buying a "cheap" Acer laptop - but soon slow. Literally 5 second delay on every keypress (and that was brand new). Any suggestions? Or at least minimum spec/processor. I have minimal tech knowledge. He not heavy user, not a gamer- but want it decent enough in case he wants to mess around with photo editor now and again. But will be mainly Word, email, YouTube etc. Thanks

I am not getting with this prise when I customise as stated above ... Any advice

This is the kind of scenario I envisaged. Sorry to hear about the aggravation you've had with them (not in the least bit surprised) but at least you'll never make that mistake again. ;)

That's nothing. It took me 2 months to get them to collect my laptop to repair a dodgy battery runtime (4hrs instead of 11). 2 weeks arguing with support that I should be getting close to 11 hours light use, where as they were arguing the advertised 11 hours is only for when it is "shutdown". Yeap, that stupid. Even had an engineer "confirm" this. Then about 6 weeks of trying to get it collected, only the 3rd arranged collection was successful. My emails were totally ignored for weeks. Easily 10+ emails ignored. Ignored on forums, Facebook, and WhatsApp too. Telephone is the only way of getting any response, but means waiting on hold for 30+mins during working hours. Their support forums are a joke, the admins are just Lenovo apologists doing mental gymnastics to excuse their appalling behavior and offer no help at all (ignoring private messages). Currently waiting on parts for the repair. I predict it will be around the 3 month mark by the time my issue is finally resolved. Seems like Lenovo are cheap due to slashing support costs..

MSI gaming Pro carbon ac. I can't remember why I picked that one.

What motherboard do you use? I'm unsure which to go for

Basically yes.

Thanks!

On Ryzen platform which is much more susceptible to memory timings and speed. Intel is not so sensitive.

I managed to get some 16GB 3600Mhz C17 for £75 off ebay, happy with that! Viper Steel

I'm guessing in terms of pricing this is as good as it gets? Was holding out for some RGB

highly recommend ballistix especially for tweaking/overclocking which can also save a bit of cash going for a slower xmp e die stick if you'd put the time in, i run my 3000c15 tactical tracer rgb sticks at 3800c16 at 1:1 flck:uclk for 65ish ns latency in aida64 though silicon lottery is at play to reach 1900 fclk.

Sounds like scam but in practice very effective! Thanks

Add your own LED strip to the case for an extra 5% performance gainz...duh

Hoping Amazon have it soon too!

iv not seen anywhere , im having to wait for amazon as i have a gift card (annoyed)

Anywhere else selling this?

Thanks. Much appreciated. :)

Definitely don't buy the MSI boards listed here. Astock is best of a poor bunch in that list.

Seems expensive for flash drive

It's the Price Spy app, you type in the product and it gives you full price information from multiple sellers

CL19 is no bueno, trash for AMD processors.

Sorry, but cold for me. Prefer pay 7 pound more and get CL16 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Ballistix-BL2K8G36C16U4W-Desktop-Gaming/dp/B083TRX7FX thank you for your effort.

Which software you are using to track prices?