AMD ryzen DOES not support high freq DDR4

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  1. JustinBulty

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    some bad news
    unlike z170& Z270, amd ryzen does not support high speed ddr4 memory kits.
    best OC mainboards will be limited to 3200MhZ.:bang:
     
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    Source? And if it were true, would it make much of a difference? 3.2GHz is still twice that of my current ddr3 ram
     
  3. -Tj-

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    3.2GHz is still ~45GB/s and that's more then enough, heck even anything over 32GB/s is.

    [​IMG]

    If it was bottlenecked you would see it by those leaked highly multi threaded tests, and it wasn't :)

    Sometimes 1800X almost goes head to head with 10core intel and its quad channel ~70GB/s.
     
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    Funny how that graph has The G.Skill Trident Z 3200 out performing the Ripjaws V 3200, even though they are the same speed but the ripjaws have slightly tighter timings.. wonder why that is. Wonder if its the RGB Trident Z sticks rather than the standard?
     

  5. thatguy91

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    This article sounds a bit like anti-Zen. Even Kaby Lake really doesn't do well above 3200. It maybe can run it, but the benefit really isn't there.
     
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    There are a few games where high speed DDR4 can help.
    ie Fallout 4 scales well with memory speed and timings.
    But in general it gives no benefit.

    Different cpu arch, possibly different results.
    Unfortunate Zen doesnt give the option tho.
     
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    i have access to some ryzen stuff but under precision NDA.
     
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    That really doesn't mean anything as is.

    Excerpt from the Asus Prime Z720-A support page. This is pretty much standard across Z270 boards in the way it is listed:

    As I bolded, technically Kaby Lake and the Z270 only support 2133 MHz RAM, the rest is overclocked. If you saw just 2133 MHz for specs on these boards, you would assume Z270 and Kaby only supports 2133 MHz RAM. Technically speaking it only supports 2133 MHz in way since the the rest are overclocked speeds.

    You could argue the 2933 MHz on that image is the non-overclocked maximum support speed, like Intel's 2133 MHz, seeing as it is the only one listed.
     
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    The reason is different kit sizes of the same BW (-> module sizes) can vary in timings.
    And CL +/- 2 is a big thing...
     

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    even worse!
    biostar start listing X370 mobos and according to official specs they only support at max 2667 MhZ!
     
  12. JustinBulty

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    im completely aware of this but this is not what im talking about!
     
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    You could at least try to be objective. You can OC the FSB to increase the ram speed. It's always been that way. It isn't bad news.
     
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    actually im hardware reviewer!
     
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    This time around I have to side with Ryzen on this one, first make extreme high frequency DDR4 a requirement (it yet isn't, 3200MHz is more than fast enough for every day use), then complain about it missing. I'm not even sure most people run DDR4 at all currently. I've tried running my RAM at 2133MHz even and honestly, it practically makes no difference for gaming as far as I have noticed in the games I played.
     

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    AthlonTM AM4 !
    am4 only support win 10-64 bit
     
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    It would be a millisecond quicker...:bang:

    What shall I do with all that time?.....:D
     
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    They have already said ryzen will support Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
     

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