21-30k What to look for when buying a ram?

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I'm getting an i5-12400f and a Asus H610M-E or a cheapo Gigabyte B660. Confused about which RAM to get. I won't be overclocking anything here. Budget is 6K or less. Any suggestion are appreciated
I have a 3060Ti, Corsair CX 750 Watts, 2 Sata Drives and a Lian Li 215X cabinet.

I know that ram should be bought in pairs, 4x4 or 8x8 of same model.
 
High frequency and lowest available latency on the ram best suited for the processor in your respective build. In INDIA, DDR4 rams at lowest latency available is CL15 which isnt an easy find.
 
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nRiTeCh said:
Corsair vengence, hyperxfury or Gskill!
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No love for crucial ballistix? Does lower latency numbers mean better speed?

All of them are 3200MHz

Crucial Ballistix 8GB DDR4-3200
https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/BL8G32C16U4B
CAS latency: 16-18-18-36

Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (I'll have to buy 2 of these)
CAS latency: 16-20-20-38

GSkill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D-16GVKB (it's a 8GBx2 kit)
CAS latency: 16-18-18-38

the hyperX Fury cost significantly more than the above models.
 
FlyingVadapav said:
I'm getting an i5-12400f and a Asus H610M-E or a cheapo Gigabyte B660. Confused about which RAM to get. I won't be overclocking anything here. Budget is 6K or less. Any suggestion are appreciated
I have a 3060Ti, Corsair CX 750 Watts, 2 Sata Drives and a Lian Li 215X cabinet.

I know that ram should be bought in pairs, 4x4 or 8x8 of same model.
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Go for the highest speed and lowest latency RAM you can afford. Doesn't make much of a real world difference. In my testing the 0.1 and 1 % low frame rates did improve a bit
 
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FlyingVadapav said:
No love for crucial ballistix? Does lower latency numbers mean better speed?

All of them are 3200MHz

Crucial Ballistix 8GB DDR4-3200
https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/BL8G32C16U4B
CAS latency: 16-18-18-36

Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (I'll have to buy 2 of these)
CAS latency: 16-20-20-38

GSkill Ripjaws V F4-3200C16D-16GVKB (it's a 8GBx2 kit)
CAS latency: 16-18-18-38

the hyperX Fury cost significantly more than the above models.
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In a nutshell, yes. Lower the latency, better they tend to perform. It might not have a significant difference(2-3%) in real time but the frequencies do have a major difference(10-15%). I should mention this in case one does't know about it. Always turn on the XMP profiles on your BIOS settings because that is gonna gain you the performance you were missing and maybe blaming some other component otherwise.
 
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pranjalrohilla said:
In a nutshell, yes. Lower the latency, better they tend to perform. It might not have a significant difference(2-3%) in real time but the frequencies do have a major difference(10-15%). I should mention this in case one does't know about it. Always turn on the XMP profiles on your BIOS settings because that is gonna gain you the performance you were missing and maybe blaming some other component otherwise.
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Learned about this recently in a HardwareUnboxed video. I never turned on XMP on my old/current pc. The ram's were running at 2133Mhz where It could've been 3000 ;-;
 
FlyingVadapav said:
Learned about this recently in a HardwareUnboxed video. I never turned on XMP on my old/current pc. The ram's were running at 2133Mhz where It could've been 3000 ;-;
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Have things changed in recent times? I never did this but both bios and CPU-Z show the RAM speed as 3600 Mhz for me. This is on my recently purchased desktop.
 
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Have things changed in recent times? I never did this but both bios and CPU-Z show the RAM speed as 3600 Mhz for me. This is on my recently purchased desktop.
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Did you get it built from some store or on your own. If you did get it built at a store they would've done it while setting up.
 
gourav said:
Have things changed in recent times? I never did this but both bios and CPU-Z show the RAM speed as 3600 Mhz for me. This is on my recently purchased desktop.
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For me in CPU-z its not showing 3600mhz even though in bios xmp profile is enabled as well as it does shows there 3600mhz.

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nRiTeCh said:
For me in CPU-z its not showing 3600mhz even though in bios xmp profile is enabled as well as it does shows there 3600mhz.

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Look at the DRAM frequency on the left screenshot. It is running at 1799.6 Mhz. Since the RAM is DDR (double data rate) multiply the frequency by 2, so the RAM is running at 3600 Mhz with 18-22-22-42 timings. This is same as the timings in the XMP profile, shown under XMP-3602 on the right screenshot.
 
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