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Which Kit Should I Choose?

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Went to buy the 6000mhz kit but price jumped from $158 to $230. I went ahead and bought the 8000mhz kit for $170 and now that's $250.

DDR5 prices definetely going up
 
Yeah, bad time to buy ram. The 8k kit will run fine at 6000. Just adjust the timing accordingly. Also, ive seen sticks with two xmp or expo profiles. It might have a 6k profile. Report back. :)
 
I have 6400 MT/s and my x870e hates it, it works but it won't sleep without hanging with yellow memory training light endlessly but it uses so little at idle relative to prior computers that I don't care. My keyboard is louder than the fans when it's not working hard. 6,000 MT/s probably works better.
 
FRZ said:
Went to buy the 6000mhz kit but price jumped from $158 to $230. I went ahead and bought the 8000mhz kit for $170 and now that's $250.

DDR5 prices definetely going up
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No shite! I'm pricing a gaming/streaming build for a coworker's kid. The 64GB Corsair kit in my PC is a full $100 more than what I paid back in June. :eek:
 
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THUMPer said:
Yeah, bad time to buy ram. The 8k kit will run fine at 6000. Just adjust the timing accordingly. Also, ive seen sticks with two xmp or expo profiles. It might have a 6k profile. Report back. :)
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Seems like it only has the one Expo profile for 8000. Figured I'd try it for now see how the system handles that speed.
 
So ran cinabench and furnmark and everything checked out fine. Also did a bit of gaming last night no issues.

Then I heard about OCCT so figured Id give it a shot. After about 10min it started blasting errors 😛

Will run it at stock memory settings to see if the overclock is indeed the culprit. If so I'll try tweaking the voltage to see if I can get it stable.
 
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Ya I figured I'd give it a shot just setting the 8k expo profile.

If I can't get 8k to work with some tweaking I'll try setting it to 6k with tighter timings
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Most will just run 6000 so its at a 1:1 ratio. But 8k is fun too. :)
 
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6000 cl26 is pretty good. I tweaked my other timings and just let it alone. It's stable, so I'm happy.
 
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FRZ said:
Went to buy the 6000mhz kit but price jumped from $158 to $230. I went ahead and bought the 8000mhz kit for $170 and now that's $250.

DDR5 prices definetely going up
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